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Finer Points on Document Shredding
You are driving down the alleyway behind your office and you pass a shopping cart person scrounging for scrap aluminum in one of your neighboring office complexes dumpsters. "Poor soul" you think to yourself as you pass his shopping cart, half filled with aluminum cans and "trash". You then wonder for a moment, if the poor transient even has a place to live.
Pity the Poor Soul
Don't worry hes living just fine. The tattered clothing and shopping cart half filled with aluminum cans are all just props to keep the cops and people like you off his back while he digs for valuable personal information in the dumpster he has just cut the lock off of with a pair of bolt cutters. Hes a "pro" and he has a group of "Russians" that pay cash for the "info" that he scores on each night.
Your Next
In fact, hes working his way down the alley and in a couple of hours hell be going through your office dumpster. If your smart, he dive head first into a Pile of shredded confetti, because all of your documents have been shredded. Or he may just find the leftover stale pizza and coffee grounds, because you have opted for a professional document shredding service.
Document Shredding Services
For high volume document shredding or shredding that absolutely positively must be done every time, more and more offices are using a document shredding service. The reasons are simple. It removes the burden from employees who often can't be relied on to shred every time. Also, it eliminates having to maintain an in house office shredder which do have a tendency to break down once a year or so.
An Ounce of Prevention or a Pound of Cure?
Its a fact, dumpsters, even locked dumpsters in locked enclosures aren't safe any more. If the wrong information should fall in the wrong hands in this day and age, you can spend months even years trying undo the financial havoc that can be reaped by professional identity thieves. Remember, that once you or your clients identity is stolen the onus is on the true owner of those identities and no on else's to undo the mess.
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