INCRED-A-SHRED PLAYS A PART IN MONEY POWER DAY

March 21, 2009

Baltimore, Maryland -- Money Power Day

158 people had their private documents shredded on-site by Incred-A-Shred; a total of 5,432 pounds of materials were shredded in a three-hour period that was free to the Baltimore community
Over 1,500 Baltimoreans attended Money Power Day on Saturday March 21st, and more than 50% of the attendees were low- and moderate-income individuals.
Over 100 individuals earning less than $42,000 per year had their taxes prepared for free
Hundreds of individuals pulled their credit report and met with credit counselors provided by the Consumer Credit Counseling Service of Maryland and Delaware
29 homeowners facing foreclosure met with attorneys provided by the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland and Civil Justice
127 youth played Port Discovery’s Money Game, 173 children played the Power Bucks Game, and 65 youth participated in peer-to-peer workshops taught by the Academy of Finance and the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship

About Incred-A-Shred:
Incred-A-Shred is a locally owned and operated on-site document and media destruction company. They are headquartered in northern Baltimore county. They have a fleet of mobile shredding units that service the state of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, 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.

Variables in Using Off-Site Shredding Services

Using an offsite shredding company has some variables in the equation that might make you a bit uneasy to contract these services, especially if you knew about them. Incred-A-Shred only offers ON-SITE shredding services. Back to off site and its limitations. First of all, your document, files, or records leave your location in a box truck that is locked up. They are transported back to a stationary shredder in a building. Hopefully nothing happens on the trip to the facility. Variables out of your control and the off-site shredding company's control include an accident with the truck where your records are stored or the truck is stolen or broken into. Next, the records are received at a warehouse and typically are never shredded the same day, and sometimes not even the same week. Can you imagine all your confidential records sitting in a warehouse for days, even weeks waiting to be destroyed? Which brings me to my last point, when and how do you know that your records have been destroyed. Implementing a program with an on-site shredding partner is the safest option for anyone where document security is crucial.

Residential Shredding

Does it pay to call an on-site company like Incred-A-Shred to shred your outdated records at your residence? Absolutely, it does. Consider the following costs associated with doing the shredding on your own. First, you would need to purchase a shredder. A cheap shredder that does 4-6 sheets of paper at a time is going to cost at least $100. Secondly, you will need to remove all the staples, paper clips, and binder clips before you run your documents through your shredder. Additionally, running 4-6 sheets of paper through the shredder at one time, this will take hours just to shred a few hundred sheets of paper. So, what is your time worth to you?

We can come to your house and shred as much paper as you need to have destroyed for cheaper than what it costs you to purchase the shredder. How do I do this? You would call our office and set up an appointment time for one of our security experts to arrive with one of our mobile shredding units. Show us what you want destroyed and within minutes, it is complete, and you did not have to lift a finger.