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BackItUpWithLinks t1_j9yiqit wrote

“Mistakenly”

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No, mistakenly. What makes you think it wasn’t a mistake?

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Viking603 OP t1_j9yjjlk wrote

Unless the lodge has a commercial shredder, a person cannot feed all the passports at once into a shredder. 1 or 2 maybe, but 44? No.

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Sixfeatsmall05 t1_j9zw16j wrote

Give me one legitimate reason for a hotel to shred any passport. Passports are the property of the government that issued it. If lost or found (which, is hard to do inside a hotel) they are to be sent back to be destroyed. So give me your one good reason any passport should ever be mistakenly destroyed, let alone 40

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EricPostpischil t1_ja0xqeb wrote

> So give me your one good reason any passport should ever be mistakenly destroyed, let alone 40

One hypothesis: The hotel routinely collects sensitive documents to be shredded by a service. The front desk clerk put the passports in a large envelope, and another employee, possibly new in their position, mistakenly sent the wrong envelope to be shredded. Nobody knowingly shredded passports.

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PoorInCT t1_ja2h1wj wrote

What does a hotel need with a shredding service?

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Darwins_Dog t1_ja2mwkn wrote

They routinely collect personal information about their guests?

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