inky dink wrote:
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Agreed! TD Ameritrade sent a notice awhile back that statements prior to
some date were about to disappear. Which is why I don't rely on a
broker's online archive. That, plus the fact that changing brokers means
your archive is gone (or costs some money/time to access).

But a download isn't enough, you need to back the data up. I use a
secure online backup service. Rebuilding a hard drive of baby pictures
sold me on the importance of backup even for home uses.

When will Microsoft or Yahoo or Google figure this out? We all need an
online combo-site that's our data archive and window on the web, with
software of all types thrown in as part of the monthly cost. I know it's
out there, kind of, but it isn't the standard yet. It's crazy that
millions of people are storing this stuff locally on often-insecure PCs
that will be obsolete in 5 years, or broken in 2. It would be nice to
just tell your broker to ship all your statements to your electronic
archive, typing in your secure URL.

-Tad

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ps56k wrote:

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A standard metal trash can, and match will take care of this. Of course
you don't want to do this on a windy day.
Joe

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"Avrum Lapin" <avrum223[at]verizon.net> wrote in message
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BUT - I'll call around and see what the various places offer for a "consumer
situation".

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My credit union has a once a year shredding event - a big truck rolls up and
takes any member's shredding, and shreds it on the spot. The best thing the
C.U. has ever done.

You might ask your bank/credit union or your brokerage for a similar
courtesy for you, since you are such a good customer. Of course you are.
They keep saying they are such a good vendor, why can't you tell them you
are such a good customer?

regarding downloading PDFs. I suggest you do so now, before they go away or
are available only for a charge. Murphy's Law, you know . . .

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Chip wrote:
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"Ron Peterson" <ron[at]shell.core.com> wrote in message
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DUH -
I have a consumer shredder - does maybe 5 pages at a time...

Maybe you missed the point of having several banker boxes worth of
statements ?

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On Jul 28, 3:00*pm, "ps56k" <pschuman_no_spam...[at]interserv.com> wrote:

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You can buy a paper shredder for $30.00.

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In article <g6ldbj$a8o$1[at]aioe.org> , Chip <chip.wood[at]ieee.org> wrote:

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place and watch. Look in the yellow pages under "Document Destruction"
or something similar. Ask your bank or hospital who they use. Some of
these outfits are "Dept of Defense" certified.

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Just thought of it, what if the whole thing was a scam to get your info?
Like the false front ATMs. Generate a little grinding noise, show the
same shredded mess of paper over and over through a window, and reap the
harvest. What a deal, have the sucker pay you to rip him off!

Chip

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ps56k wrote:

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was putting in shredder vending machines into supermarkets and such.
Can't remember the charge/sheet, but it was nominal.
http://www.azcentral.com/community/c...edder0718.html

Chip

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I've got a couple of boxes of old brokerage statements going back to the
1980's.
I'd like to get rid of them all, and go paperless, since I use Quicken to
monitor the accounts,
and the paper PDF images are avail online if I need them.

Anyway - last time I had this urge to purge my old banking statements,
it took me all afternoon and a fireplace

Any other suggestions for this massive amount of paper ?
I wish there was a "consumer" level shredding service -
like at Office Depot or Kinko's -
but you'd have to be sure it really got done.....

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