Re: Your Privacy Concern
One of my bigger pet peeves is my bank/credit card company sending me pre-printed checks - for balance transfers - no less. First of all I don't do balance transfers. Second, I didn't request these. And third, why do you have to fill out the whole check and send it to me by mail. I am sure, it requires some more dancing through the hoops before a nefarious criminal will be able to turn these checks to actual money, but for crying out loud, why do banks think this is such a great idea.
First of all, I think all these "credit card offers", Bank One and Chase, really take the cake here - should be fined an enormous amount of money for all the paper they waste when they keep sending their unsolicited junk to millions of homes every day. These are your real real-life environmental abusers here. And secondly, they should be forbidden from sending unsolicited balance-transfer checks to anyone. If someone is so desperate to do balance transfer, he or she can as easily pick up a darned phone and ask the bank to send some, so they can suffer even more in the indignation of living a life mired in mounting debt and self-torture.