An easy way to find who is on vacation is to spot the newspapers piling up in the driveway. Most homeowners put a freeze on the newspaper to prevent this security risk.

However, if you get the San Francisco Chronicle the opposite might be true. Delivery people for the paper were throwing the vacation notice slips in the dumpster where they pick up the papers. A burglary ring was pulling out the slips out and then targeting the vacationing homeowners.

This is another example is where a locked box to collect shredding would have prevented a big problem.