And maybe get a P.O. Box where you can maintain it in a secure area, and then go there periodically to pick up your mail, and while you're there you can drop it off as well. |
I mean, something like 10 million people are victimized each year by identity theft, and the Federal Trade Commission has ranked Hawaii something like 5th in the nation in terms of cases. |
The second way is to shred your personal documents, to make sure that when you're throwing stuff away -- old tax forms, and old bank account statements, and so forth -- that those things are properly shredded so that would-be thieves don't get access to them. |