Look aroudn and you will find services for everything. I have heard of laundry services, house cleaning services, dog walking services, courier services, catering services, dating services, even financial services. Yesterday I had my first encounter with paper shredding companies. Of course, after thinking about it, this service makes a lot of sense. When I first heard about this, I have to admit, I only thought of this as a service that individuals would use. All I could imagine was someone too lazy or didn’t want to bother with shredding their bills and all of the junk mail that they receive. Why wouldn’t they just want to stick it all in a shredder? Then I realized that this is really for a corporation or business with a lot of sensitive information that needs to be destroyed.
One such company is a pharmaceutical company that I visited. As I wandered around I noticed these bins that were all over the building. The employees would drop in various papers throughout the day. The bottom of the cabinet is locked with a key that only the shredding company has the key to. This company would show up once a week or every couple days. They would remove the bags of papers from the bins and put in an empty bag. These bags are securely delivered to a different location and then destroyed.
When I really think about it, it is very clear to me that a paper shredding service is logical and even necessary. For some reason I find it difficult to believe that this method is as secure as just destroying the documents on site. Of course, when I think about that pharmaceutical company I just have to hope that they are just as secure with their drugs.