Giving away magazines (Iowa, Oregon, number)

[bagster]

People often subscribe to magazines, and when finished reading donate the magazines to places like waiting rooms in doctor's offices, etc. I've noticed the donater always tears out the address labels. Is there some security reason to do this?

[skeddy]

Doctors offices get magazines free, they don't need people bringing magazines into their offices. Tearing off the label is a privacy issue.

[oregonwoodsmoke]

You don't want the people who receive donated magazines to show up on your doorstep because you left your address on the magazine.

[selhars]

Come on OP, what you you think the answer to your own question might be?
Why do you think someone would tear off an address label from any thing....a magazine? a delivery box? junk mail?

You really have no idea, and can't even imagine or fathom a reason someone would do that?

[bagster]

Originally Posted by selhars

Come on OP, what you you think the answer to your own question might be?
Why do you think someone would tear off an address label from any thing....a magazine? a delivery box? junk mail?

You really have no idea, and can't even imagine or fathom a reason someone would do that?

Nah, I don't have any idea. That's why I asked. You tell me what nefarious information can be gleaned from an address label that's not available a dozen other places.

[ChessieMom]

Originally Posted by bagster

Nah, I don't have any idea. That's why I asked. You tell me what nefarious information can be gleaned from an address label that's not available a dozen other places.

It’s simply that it’s there. Easy access. No work. I don’t care to have my name and address plastered all over a shelf in a thrift store, or anywhere else for that matter.

[cebuan]

Originally Posted by oregonwoodsmoke

You don't want the people who receive donated magazines to show up on your doorstep because you left your address on the magazine.

My name and address have been in phone books for decades, and nobody has shown up on my doorstep.


It's so nobody can have my subscription re-directed to their change-of-address using the account number on the label..

[RationalExpectations]

I’ve never heard of someone donating .50 caliber machine gun magazines.

[SoCal_Native]

Originally Posted by RationalExpectations

I’ve never heard of someone donating .50 caliber machine gun magazines.

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[lieqiang]

We usually don latex gloves and use baby wipes to scrub every single page of a magazine for possible prints before we donate it to the laser hair removal clinic. I didn't think about the label, will have to handle that.