What do you do with unsolicited credit card offers?

I find them potentially dangerous. Yet I still get them despite having OPTed out at the credit bureau.

I usually send back the prepaid envelopes over-stuffed with junk mail. What do you do?

What do you do with unsolicited credit card offers?postage rate

I usually shred them, but you just opened my eye.

Thanks for the great idea.

What do you do with unsolicited credit card offers?

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shred and burn...|||just throw out. first rip them.|||I shred them in my handy paper shredder.|||I tear them up and pitch them. Or give them to dad for his fire pit.--torn up of course.|||Shred, but your solution is good. You%26#039;re right, they are potentially dangerous. Crazy people at credit card companies have actually accepted and processed aps that have been clearly RIPPED UP by hand. Someone fishes it out of the trash, changes the address so they get the card OR return to steal from your mailbox, and off on a spending spree they go.|||I shred them.|||bin them|||The offers don%26#039;t always come just from the credit bureaus. You need to go through every company you associate with and opt-out through them. Most often it is your own credit card companies who sell your information.

These websites have some good info:

http://www.ecofuture.org/jnkmail.html

https://www.directmail.com/directory/mai...

http://www.obviously.com/junkmail/|||Opt out again: 1-888-5OPTOUT. Each person in the household must %26quot;opt out%26quot; separately.|||shred anything with your demographics on it.|||apply to them all and buy nice things then file bankruptcy. Isn%26#039;t that the american way? ;)|||S-H-R-E-D|||I take a liter to them.|||Run them through my cross-cut shredder