<prompt> Human: I get between 10 and 20 pre-approved credit card applications per week in the mail. I find it incredibly obnoxious to have to open and shred them and throw the envelopes away. There is no national do not mail list that i know ofnot that the do not call list actually does anything, telemarketers call me all the time. All the experts on identity theft say to shred them, but i cant help wondering why that even matters. Without your social security number, nobody should be able to fill them out anyway. A big hole in this seems to be moving, im not in communication with all these idiotic places that send me constant junk, there is no way to update addresses with them, as if i would give them that info, so if i moved, my junk mail would continue to arrive at the previous address. If this was so dangerous, what is stopping the new occupant at that address from opening that crap? You know they arent going to shred it for me, so even if they dont open it, they will likely throw it in the trash where anyone else could open it. I just have a hard time imagining that they can really get anything from junk mail, does anyone know for sure one way or another on this?  <response>: I have a fire pit that I use maybe once or twice a month for all that junk. I drink beer while I do it. 