Give your files room to grow
Feeding old financial documents and client files through a small office shredder is no one’s idea of fun. Finding a shredding company that will pick up less than 10 boxes of paper can be tough. So how does the small office or home office clear out a backlog of shredding?
Many local stores such as the UPS Store and various pack-and-ship places take shredding by the pound. I recently dropped off about 10 pounds (one fully loaded grocery bag) of confidential paper at a UPS store, where for $1.50 a pound they dump it into a locked container, which will be picked up by a NAID-certified shredding company.
The store didn’t advertise this service, and I scoured the UPS main website in vain, looking for the ability to search for this service throughout the US. Why they don’t advertise it more widely is a mystery to me. Many home and small offices are run by people with badly bruised knuckles, thanks to attempts to stuff just one more sheet into a file drawer that needs a good cleaning out.
How do you get your shredding done? When did you last do it? Any questions about what to shred? Leave a comment here.
This is very good news! I’ve two boxes here that need to go! Thanks!
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That’s a new one to me! I’ll have to see if my local UPS Store offers this service.
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I just found a reference to this service, Margaret – not on a UPS store site, but on the site of the company that does the shredding.
Thanks for passing on the link, Jeri. They must have separate contractors in each area, since other companies seem to do the shredding in other locations.
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