To shred or not to shred?

[David Ilvedson]

You can buy my 2007 issue if you like...

David Ilvedson, RPT
Pacifica, CA  94044

----- Original message ----------------------------------------
From: "Barbara Richmond" <piano57 at comcast.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Received: 6/8/2008 10:55:47 AM
Subject: Re: To shred or not to shred?


>Hmm, I use it quite frequently and write little notes in it or other phone numbers, 
>etc.  I wouldn't mind purchasing one, though.  This discussion probably belongs on 
>ptg-l.

>Barbara
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Porritt, David 
>  To: Pianotech List 
>  Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 11:10 AM
>  Subject: RE: To shred or not to shred?


>  I agree, Paul.  I have not opened one for several years.  I can find things so much 
>more quickly on the web page and I think all the information in the book is there.  I 
>know there are advertisements in there so I don't know if the directory is a 
>monetary profit or a loss.  I know I personally wouldn't miss it. 

>   

>  Not only for the carbon footprint, and misuse of our trees, I tend to scan 
>everything and keep the information that way.  Receipts I scan and attach them to 
>the relevant entries in Quicken.  Society talks about becoming paperless but 
>lawyers, banks and the government keep cranking it out.  I have stopped getting 
>hard copies of my bank statements, credit card statements etc.  Where I work paper 
>memos are nearly a thing of the past as everything comes by email.

>   

>  dave

>   

>   

>  David M. Porritt, RPT

>  dporritt at smu.edu

>   

>  From: pianotech-bounces at ptg.org [mailto:pianotech-bounces at ptg.org] On Behalf 
>Of paul bruesch
>  Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:21 AM
>  To: Pianotech List
>  Subject: Re: To shred or not to shred?

>   

>  I shred my bills (usually after paying), credit card solicitations, anything I print but 
>don't use that has a client's name/addr/phone, but I'm not going to overload my 
>shredder (much less take the time) to shred the PTG directory... but I did consider it. 

>  I'm not so concerned with identity theft, per se, from the PTG directory as I am 
>about it being a resource for spam e-mailers and snail-mailers, but I don't think that 
>THEY go thru our trash the way ID thieves do. There isn't any information that's 
>especially useful to ID thieves.

>  I do remove the spiral because I'm not sure if it's recyclable.  Actually, that's about 
>the only time I open it... when I'm prepping it to recycle after the new one arrives. 
>What year is this??  In the Internet age, I think it's a big waste of paper and all the 
>associated resources that go along with paper production. I'd be all for abolishing it 
>in favor of an online version... most (all?) of the info is online already. I'm sure there 
>are techs that are still without Internet access... possibly a scaled-down version 
>could be made available to them... maybe on phonebook-like paper... and/or make it 
>a purchase option. 

>  Paul Bruesch
>  Stillwater, MN