1. People can steal mail out of your mail box.
2. People can steal un-shredded documents from your trash.

One way you can significantly reduce your offline risk is to reduce or eliminate the amount of junk mail your receive, especially those pre-approved credit card offers.

Doing this manually is a lot of work, but I’ve started using a service called Green Dimes, that let’s you specify exactly which credit card companies or catalogs you want to stop receiving postal mail from. They have a complete list of every company that sends junk mail and you simply check off the ones you want to eliminate.

It’s an incredible service. There’s a free version and a paid one that only requires a one-time $20 fee.

Since we started using it at my house, we’ve eliminated 95% of the credit card and financial service offers we used to receive in the mail. Plus we stopped getting a lot of catalogs we don’t want anymore, which has reduced the amount of paper we recycle significantly.

Before we got Green Dimes, I used to shred all of this mail, but I couldn’t keep up with it and these offers piled up all over the house. Now we don’t even get them. I can’t tell you what a relief that is, and I know that no one else is intercepting them either.

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