A business signed up for a document destruction service

[Sherman A1]

That charges by the container load....

The are a pay-per shredder....................

[soothsayer]

1. Ha! I used to take old postage stamps to be destroyed at a document destruction place in Baltimore

Once upon a time when I worked for the usps. We had to unload the trucks and observe as they dumped the old stamps into big steaming vats of... I have no idea. Chemical things that ate paper. The vats were sunken into the ground, so you could watch your stuff being destroyed.

I remember seeing quite a few soft cover porn books on the ground, having briefly escaped destruction.

It was off one of those mysterious off-ramps off a major highway near a bridge. Like literally under the highway. It was kind of neat.

[Sherman A1]

2. That would have been cool to watch

Sorta like the big machines that crunch old cars.

[soothsayer]

3. Definitely! Car crunching sounds cooler but it was fascinating

Just the whole post-apocalyptic vibe of the place, with the streaming vats and traffic rushing by on the highway overhead and some body of water flanking one side.

[dhol82]

4. I hired a shredding service.

They came to the house with a big truck that had a camera on the inside that let you watch your stuff being shredded. It was really cool!

[soothsayer]

5. Neat! Our county has free shredding monthly

You get to bring one big bag I think but I forget if you can watch it. They check IDs. Looked secure.

[dhol82]

6. We periodically get a free service. One bag, no video.

Reason for the service was that I was cleaning out my house after selling it and had a shit load of old papers. I was so surprised by how big my basement got afterwards.