Throwing away envelopes- should I destroy name and address?

rising_from_the_ashes

Ohhhh name & address always removed here too!

Teg-Rem

I shred or burn them or put them in the "wet" rubbish bin cut up very small and the juices from food etc render them unreadable anyway.

Ilona

Yes, never put anything in your bin with your name and address on. It's not being paranoid, it's taking sensible precautions.
Ilona

Torry_Quine

My envelopes go in the recycling and I see no reason to do otherwise, no one has convinced me that its an issue. Maybe I'm naive but my name and address are hardly secret.

I_wanna_live_for_free

Every piece of paper that comes in this house will get the blank side used as a shopping list/meal plan etc and then go into the shredding so my husband can then shred it, soak it and make paper balls for drying in the greenhouse and then burning on the fire pit or wood burning stove in winter.

Butterfly_Brain

I always burn old paperwork and yes also envelopes with our name and address.

charlies-aunt

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I always burn old paperwork and yes also envelopes with our name and address.

I do this too.

I do lots of doorstep calling as part of my job and it very fails to amaze me how trusting a lot of people are - very quick to disclose that they shop every Wednesday, no-one is in the house all day Friday, always out between 8.30-9.30am etc . . . . unwittingly making them potential targets for robberies

As they said in the war - be like Dad - keep Mum!

GreyQueen

I_wanna_live_for_free wrote: »

Every piece of paper that comes in this house will get the blank side used as a shopping list/meal plan etc and then go into the shredding so my husband can then shred it, soak it and make paper balls for drying in the greenhouse and then burning on the fire pit or wood burning stove in winter.

Excellent domestic economy.

I'm curious about people here who say that they put envelopes into the recycling as my council specifically tells you not to do this as the gum on them burgers-up the recycling process.

99/100 envelopes into my home are the window type. I fillet them and discard the gummed bits into general waste and use the rest for scratch notes, held together by a Bulldog clip when needed. I also need scratch paper during my workday so some of them go there and at the end of the shift are torn in half and go into the workplace's confidential recycling sacks. I figure saving trees is worth the 15 sec it takes me to process an envelope.

As my name and address is on the letter itself it's either important and needs to be kept or unimportant in which case that part is ripped off and shredded. If the remaining letter has a wholly or partially blank side, it gets turned into scratch-pads or it goes into the recycling.

heavenleigh

I shred everything with my new (reverted to) maiden name, i dump all ex-hubby's mail he hasn't bothered to re-direct to his new tarts house whole......!!!!!y much ...hell yes! if he can't be bothered to re-direct why should i?????

Torry_Quine

GreyQueen wrote: »

Excellent domestic economy.

I'm curious about people here who say that they put envelopes into the recycling as my council specifically tells you not to do this as the gum on them burgers-up the recycling process.

99/100 envelopes into my home are the window type. I fillet them and discard the gummed bits into general waste and use the rest for scratch notes, held together by a Bulldog clip when needed. I also need scratch paper during my workday so some of them go there and at the end of the shift are torn in half and go into the workplace's confidential recycling sacks. I figure saving trees is worth the 15 sec it takes me to process an envelope.

As my name and address is on the letter itself it's either important and needs to be kept or unimportant in which case that part is ripped off and shredded. If the remaining letter has a wholly or partially blank side, it gets turned into scratch-pads or it goes into the recycling.

My council says envelopes can be out into recycling as long as the cellophane window has been removed.