Fellowes P-48C

LET’S SEE HOW LONG THIS ONE LASTS! I’ve grown tired of buying one shredder after another. I’ve tried fairly expensive ones from reputable ‘office machinery’ companies like Rexel, I’ve tried cheap ones from Tesco, and frankly, none of them lasts like you’d expect them to, especially since they are, to use that phrase, hardly rocket science. I’d long ago concluded that a cross-cut shredder was what was needed, ever since I saw a demonstration of someone sticking back the strips of A4 sheet from a linear shredder making it into a legible document again. My latest ‘cross-cutter’, a Tesco job ... more

SHREDDING THE EVIDENCE If the media is to be believed, we live in a society rampant with identity theft. If personal information is not disposed of properly, apparently gangs of villains will happily comb through your coffee grinds and potato peelings looking for valuable snippets of data, which they will callously use to drain your bank accounts, run up massive credit card bills and generally ruin your life. Although there is a grain of truth in this fear-mongering, I very much doubt that the reality is quite as dramatic. That said, even if the risks are somewhat overstated, it is still ... more