First and foremost, NEVER EVER give your social security number or date of birth out to anyone you're not looking at face to face and know fully. While, I know GardenParty people are savvy enough to know this, someone else reading it might fall prey. Secondly, most of this stuff is urban legend. But more importantly, the link tells you the true way to get rid callers and mail, the right way. Excerpt from the link: "Returning junk mail to direct mailers on their dime (by stuffing it back into their postage-paid return envelopes) may cost them some money and provide you with a bit of personal satisfaction, but it won't cut down on the amount of junk mail you receive. In fact, it may actually increase your junk mail load, since the primary metric used to gauge the effectiveness of many direct mail campaigns is the number of responses received (even if those responses are negative). The best way to decrease the amount of unsolicited mail you receive is to register with the Direct Marketing Association's (DMA) Mail Preference Service (MPS). The DMA maintains a "do not mail" file of MPS registrants which they regularly update and send to their members, who are required to remove the listed entries from their rosters of prospective customers targeted for mailings. (The file is also made available to non-DMA members, but they are under no obligation to use it.)" Here is a link that might be useful: Urban legend

You can. I like to write "take me off your mailing list" on the form, stick it in the envelope, and send it back. I know folks that claim to have attached them to bricks and sent them back, but I dunno if it would work. Way back in the day they would send forms that had holes punched for their computers to read- my dad would punch more random holes in it and send it back, hoping to screw them up.

Pay at the pump often asks for it. It's common sense. If the card is stolen the perp probably won't know the zip code. Wildchild put it aptly. This is a scare tactic by an outfit trying to raise money and scare people into signing up. Shame on them. No way will I ever support that scam outfit now. They *did* admit that there's marketing reasons to ask for a zip code. But really, identity theft from a zip code is approaching laughable. There may be some outfits with ulterior motives but not all as that scam outfit suggests. If you're that paranoid, just give a different zip. But if it's a verification, you might not be able to make the purchase or worse, have to explain to the cops when they question whether you stole the card! LOL Even those who go so crazy over phone numbers need to think a bit. When I make online purchases they need the phone number registered to the credit card to verify the card is good. And I've had random checks to be sure that I was making a purchase too. As far as junk mail, credit card outfits already sell your name, theoretically you can opt-out but I'm not sure about that with some of them. Isn't it ironic that AARP should talk about *junk* mail? LOL I get more junk mail from cAARP than from any other outfit. The way they cull public records to gain mailing lists and prey on the vulnerable and now this? That outfit has had little respect from me in the past and now exploiting the vulnerable even more. They're disgusting.

Nice video... let me add a couple thoughts if I might... corrugated cardboard is merely three sheets of craft paper glued together. I would say nearly all paper shredders should be able to shred three sheets of craft paper... heck running a paper grocery sack through a shredder can be far more demanding (if you don't cut the bottom out separately but instead leave it folded then low power shredders will struggle with it... like my cheapy 5 sheet Aurora). Just be aware that there are different strengths of cardboard used for shipping boxes (I had to do a Google search to learn about the different classifications)... most are easy to shred however some boxes designed for shipping big heavy items such as electronics, subwoofers or gym equipment will be a lot harder on your shredder (as the craft paper used is a much thicker stock and of a stiffer formulation)... still even my cheapy shredder can shred this high-strength cardboard IF I pre-cut it into thin enough strips. Thus leads me to another suggestion.... get a paper cutter. I have an 18" German made paper cutter (self-sharpening blade) and can cut up a typical Amazon box into strips in less than a minute... actually pre-removing the shipping labels and packing tape takes longer to do than actually cutting up the box. For most typical cardboard a 6-8" wide strip is no problem for even my humble lowly powered shredder to handle... for stouter (high-strength) cardboard I may have to cut it down to 3-4" widths to keep from bogging down the motor too much or completely stalling it in cases. The only issue preventing corrugated cardboard from being run through a paper shredder would be the access slot of your particular paper shredder.... I've noticed on some newer shredders the slot appear rather narrow or on some limited to a funny angle. Also I would be very cautious about running "chip-board" through a shredder.... I believe that's the term (hobby-crafters) used for basically packaging cardboard like cereal or tissue or shoe boxes. Those can actually be a lot harder on the shredder blades than corrugated cardboard if its thicker or doubled over, some of that stuff I wouldn't even attempt to run through my shredder at least. Final thoughts... I will reiterate, if the dry paper shreds are simply layered on top of the moist bedding/castings rather than mixed into the top layer, it will not actually clump... yes, it helps to have some cardboard shreds mixed in. Moisture slowly wicks upward into the shreds that is in direct contact thereby softening it and holding in a high humidity environment and the worms will migrate into this portion of the layer and the microbes they bring with them begin the composting process... without any of the paper clumping. I've only discovered this recently (a month) and its working out quite well. No leachate, no clumps, no escapes, and no more fluffing the bedding/castings... I just pull back the shredded layer (I use paper and cardboard... simply depends upon whatever I'm "recycling" at the moment) spread the food down and replace the paper layer, that's it. Oh and in case someone reading doesn't know about oiling paper shredders... think of it as necessary periodic maintenance that must be done to keep down the dust that shredding paper and cardboard creates, this can lead to dull blades and tends to get compacted into the blades eventually causing binding of the motor and overheating issues, basically killing your shredder before its time. To oil a paper shredder you simply take a couple sheets of printer paper and smear vegetable oil (yes it must be a vegetable based oil) over both sides until its saturated then allow it to sit for a few minutes and run this oiled-paper through your shredder... do this at least once a month and your shredder should last a long time.