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From: pflueger@thewav.enet.dec.com (Free speech is a sound investment)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Re: Citizens of the City of Mind
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Date: 30 Mar 91 19:28:43 GMT
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In article <6750015@hp-vcd.HP.COM>, johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton) writes...
><<<<
>< Another approach - don't ever use your residence address for
>< 
>< the list goes on.  You can move a lot of this to a poBox.
>----------
>Official PO boxes are not the best way to do this because even
>the most dimwitted clerk knows that you do not sleep in yours
>every night. Get a box at your neighborhood MailBoxes-R-Us store.
>They cannot by law be called a PO box so you must use an address
>that looks for all intents and purposes like an Apartment address.
> 

There is a drawback to this idea, in that the software at the Big 3 (TRW,CBI,
EquiFax) will flag your credit profile with a warning that this is not your
'real' address.  Some credit institutions might regard this as attempted
credit fraud, or at a minimum, not grant your request for credit.

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