Shred Business Plans

Shred Business Plans

With the proliferation of identity theft, there is an increasing need for document shredding. Document destruction protects essential financial and proprietary assets, including business plans created by you and your staff.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) estimates that identity theft crimes affect nearly 9 million Americans each year. Some thieves even rummage through garbage to collect sensitive information.

You will be helping to prevent identity theft by destroying these confidential business plans.

An individual business can purchase a small paper shredder, but a secure shred container makes sure the business plans will be destroyed.

Businesses find it inefficient for their personnel to shred large quantities of paper documentation in a paper shredder.

Request a quote online and receive a written price quote within 24 hours.

Call one of our customer service representatives 1-888-467-4744 to discuss your document and paper shredding needs.

Shredding Financial Records

As we are rounding the corner of the first decade in the 21st century, the term Identity Theft has unfortunately, become a household name. Thieves are finding new ways to use and abuse stolen financial data, often creating nightmares for their victims, who must spend countless hours repairing the damage.

While identity thieves have expanded their repertoire to include medical records, pay stubs, and even school records, financial data is still the most coveted and sought out data by identity thieves. Financial data includes your credit card receipts or statements, bank statements, tax related documents, as well as retirement/IRA and brokerage records and house records (such as mortgage and property tax statements). Even in this technological age, it seems we are still swimming in paperwork, and eventually it must be tossed. Knowing what to toss and when can be tricky for most consumers.

Generally, financial experts advise to keep credit utility and other household bills only until you receive the cancelled check. Credit card statements should be kept longer - about seven years (though receipts only need to be kept until your monthly statement comes and is reconciled). It is advised to keep paycheck stubs only until your end of year tax statements come, and bank records can also be tossed after one year. Other financial paperwork, such as IRA, retirement statements, and house records (deeds, titles, etc) should be kept permanently.

So what is a conscientious consumer to do with all of those old financial statements containing such dangerously identifying data?

Shredding your old financial records is an excellent way to protect yourself from identity theft. One of the most popular ways for identity thieves to get your personal information is through "Dumpster Diving", in which crooks rummage through trash bins looking for papers with personal information on it. By shredding your old financial records with a good quality shredder, you are completely eliminating the threat of dumpster divers. Take advantage of free community shredding days or schedule our shredding truck to come to your home. It is secure, on-site, eliminates the worry and the hassle.

Small businesses and corporations typically produce a large volume of paperwork with sensitive data, and professional shredding companies are becoming more and more popular. A professional shredding service allows the business owner to easily and safely get rid of their unneeded financial paperwork, and the service is usually very cost efficient.There is no doubt that identity thieves are here to stay. The good news is you do have ways to protect yourself. Being diligent with where and how you get rid of your financial records is one excellent way to keep your identity safe.

Request a quote online and receive a written price quote within 24 hours.

Call Incred-A-Shred customer service representatives 1-888-467-4744 to discuss your document and paper shredding needs.

How Spending $ on Shredding Can Save you $

Ever wonder how spending money NOW can save you money in the future? Let me explain. I will start with an example of what I am talking about. If you are a small to medium sized, or ever a large organization, most organizations spend money storing old records in a storage facility or with a records storage company. Consider the following example. A law firm has a 30' x 30' storage facility that houses over 500 legal sized banker boxes that are all at least 10 years old. The law firm spends approximately $600 a month for the storage unit. They have had records stored in this facility for over 25 years. Most of these records have never been looked at in over 20 years. So, they are spending over $7200 a year storing these records. Multiply this by the number of years they have had this storage facility, and it adds up to almost $20,000. So, how were we able to save them money. They spend approximately $2500 and we shredded over 400 of these boxes for them on-site for them. They were able to shift their records to a small, $200 a month storage facility with the reduction in 80% of their boxes. So, spending a few dollars enabled them to save almost $5000 a year in storage costs.

Free Community Shredding Day

For Immediate Release:

LOCAL COMPANY TO OFFER FREE SHREDDING SERVICES TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS PART OF A NATIONAL CONSUMER AWARENESS INITIATIVE

May 20, 2009

Reston, VA. Incred-A-Shred will join Long and Foster to provide free shredding services to the general public during an event that will highlight the importance of protecting discarded personal information. Incred-A-Shred will have one of their mobile shredding trucks available to shred confidential and personal documents on-site.

The event will be held on Saturday, May 30th from 9 am to 1 pm at Long & Foster Real Estate, 1831 Wiehle Ave, Reston, VA. Members of the public should bring their confidential materials, which will be destroyed free of charge.


For more information:
Contact Long & Foster, Maureen O’Hara at 703-437-3800.


About Incred-A-Shred:
Incred-A-Shred is a locally owned and operated on-site document and media destruction company. They are headquartered in Baltimore. They have a fleet of mobile shredding units that service the state of Virginia, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and Washington, D. They service commercial, government, and residential customers. For more information call 1-888-467-4744 or visit the web at www.Incred-A-Shred.com.


For reports about what happens when discarded information is not properly destroyed, go to www.naidonline.org/news.html

On-Site Destruction of Hard Drives

The destruction of hard drives is something that is critial and crucial to keeping your employees and your clients identities safe. It is not good enough anymore to just drop your computer or hard drives into the land fill. A safer bet is to have your hard drives destroyed. There are several options to destroy your hard drives. The safest option is to have them destroyed or shredded. It is as simple as calling our office and letting us know you have hard drive destruction needs. We just completed a job for a large client where we destroyed over 1000 hard drives that they had accumulated over 5 years. We had the entire job completed in under 2 hours.

Why you should outsource Document Destruction

Outsourcing is an easy and economical decision to make when it comes to your on-site document shredding needs. NAID (National Assoc. Information Destruction) members provide convenient locked security containers to collect all your confidential documents. The data is destroyed fast and staples, paper clips, film, dvd, and cd's are destroyed with ease. It frees your valuable employees to do their real job. It is cost effective.

Office shredders, on the other hand, are just bad investments. Why, you ask? Let's dicsuss. First of all, you need to go out and purchase one. They are messy and need to be replaced often. They cannot handle staples, film, dvd's, or cd's. Office shredders also take time away from your employees doing their job. Worst of all, office shredders are not consistently used by your employees, creating a "risky situation."

Selecting Incred-A-Shred for all of your shredding needs gives you "Piece of Mind."

Shredding Medical and Dental Records

Ensuring that medical and dental records are destroyed properly is vital to ensuring your identify is kept confidential. Protected Health Information (PHI) is the classification which the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has given to personal patient information for which unauthorized release is now a criminal offense. PHI includes diagnosis, prescription billing information, medical history, notes, x-rays, phone messages, and several other relevant pieces of information.

Institutions that must comply with HIPAA are called covered entities. Covered entities include any and all organizations or individuals who retain or collect health related information. This includes larger institutions such as hospitals, medical centers and insurance. There are also small covered entities such as dentists, doctors, counselors, billing centers and many others. Technically, every employer in the United States with completed health insurance applications or injury reports on file is considered a small covered entity under HIPAA.

Destroying ALL discarded patient information is a VERY important requirement of HIPAA. This also includes information on computers. Deleting information does not erase it. It must be destroyed.

No office is too small to benefit from using a shredding firm. A SECURE SHREDDING FIRM is very inexpensive insurance.