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jdsweet | Jan 26 2006
I've had a 6-page shredder for a while now; used mostly to deal with unwanted mail. My problem is that, while I find it pretty easy to identify junk mail without opening the envelope, my consumer-grade shredder demands that I open basically *all* mail and prep it by flattening out the tri-folded pages. Based on rough estimates, this open & unfold step accounts for ~70% of the time I spend on handling my mail at home. I'm prepared to open & prep those hideously annoying offers that actually contain a fake plastic credit card, but for the rest, here's the math: The outer envelope is 2 pages. Thus, the smallest mail I get has a thickness of 5 pages. The thickest mail I get in any volume is credit card offers, which breaks down as follows: 2 - outer envelope That is *right* at the upper limit of most cross-cutting shredders in the "prosumer" price range, which tend to top out at with an uncomfortable thin margin of 17 pages. Basically, I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a cross-cutting shredder that'll handle 21-25 page thickness for less than $300. 11 Comments
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 Update on results of my searchSubmitted by jdsweet on February 10, 2006 - 12:58pm.
I ultimately went w/ something below my initial specs due to the fact that, as I suspected, you get very little extra in the way of capacity btw $125 and $275. And then almost nothing until you get to $500. Ultimately, I decided on a Staples brand 15-sht confetti-cut shredder from Staples.com (item# 615699), which is going for $99 this week only after a $30 EasyRebate (nothing to mail in). Here was my shortlist, all prices reflect cost w/ shipping not tax: Staples 15-sheet crosscut (item# 615699) for $99 Royal 160mx 16-sheet crosscut for about $145 from Amazon "Marketplace" (though few reviews, all were great; has an LCD display) IdentityGuard 24-Sheet Strip-Cut Shredder for $99 from Staples (item# 576954) OfficeMax TS9000C 18-sheet confetti cut (+CD) for $199 Fellowes Powershred PS70-2CD 15-sheet strip cut (+CD) for $149 from OfficeMax I also checked out the (OfficeDepot house brand) Ativa x1800 (18-sheet confetti-cut), which would have been phenomenal for $129 as someone here mentioned, but that must have been a special, as I found it only for $229. Anyway, the only ones I really felt myself torn between were the Staples, Royal and IdentityGuard units (the first three). The thought of 24-sheet capacity, even if strip-cut, was quite tempting for $99 -- like I said, for personal shredding, capacity to shred whole envelopes unopened is probably more important than having to "stir" your strip-cut output once a month when you actually change the bag. I'm still right on the fence on that approach. Ultimately I went with confetti-cut because it creates denser output, so I don't have to change or compress the contents of the bin so often, which I felt just about evened the score. » POSTED IN:
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