When you all need to shred a bunch of documents,

I have old Federal/State tax documents with my Soc. Sec. number on them that I would like to shred. I used to be able to take them to a place called ProShred where I could watch them process my items.

Now, because of COVID, they adopted a "No contact" policy where you place your items in a locked container, and they do the shredding the next business day. Do they just take the locked container and dump its contents into the shredder or do the attendants reach into the locked container and pull your items out?

I know there is on-site shredding, but I live in an apt. complex and would have to take my boxes down stairs and wait outside until the guys came. Plus, I don't know if their truck would fit in my parking space (they shred on the spot), so as to not block cars driving in and out of the parking lot.

How do you all handle shredding of your sensitive items? Thanks.

Follow Ups:

• I have a shredder but it only does a few pages before it overheats (SM) Kel C Sun, Sep 11 2022 at 08:38 PM CDT (0)
• Just throw them in the basement. Mara Lago Fri, Sep 02 2022 at 12:45 PM CDT (0)
• Thanks for chiming in. The OP. nm Fri, Aug 19 2022 at 10:53 AM CDT (0)
• I just throw mine in the middle of a garbage bag filled with kitchen waste or whatnot. Garbage man throw it in truck. Who goes through garbage? nm Fri, Aug 12 2022 at 11:15 PM CDT (2)
  • once the garbage man has them they are probably safe sm Sat, Aug 13 2022 at 10:21 AM CDT (0)
  • Lots of people. scummy people, nm Fri, Aug 12 2022 at 11:20 PM CDT (0)
• Chappaqua NM Fri, Aug 12 2022 at 06:30 PM CDT (0)
• We have an old Boston shredder from a business where DH worked SM Fri, Aug 12 2022 at 02:53 PM CDT (0)

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