Customer Reviews for Staples - 24-Sheet Cross-Cut Multi-Media Shredder - Black
Customer Rating
5
on September 12, 2023
Posted by: Paula K.
First I loved the compact size. I placed it right between my home desk and file cabinet. It fits perfectly. I like the color and the easy to use controls. Very user friendly. I first used it for mail that comes for credit cards and thought this was perfect to shred it instead of just throwing it away. Makes me feel more secure that my information is shredded. I counted 8 pages of junk mail to see if it stood up to it's 8 page promise and it did well. I could tell any more than that and it would probably jam. I had some expired credit cards I ran through the shredder and it worked perfectly. All i n all I thought it's a nice and compact shredder.
I used this shredder to finally clean out years of paperwork that I did not need to hang onto any longer but didn't know what I should do to deal with it. It had a lot of private info that I didn't feel safe just tossing out. It felt good to run through everything I had been lugging around all these years in just half an hour. It says it's good to shred up to 10 sheets at once but I found that was just a safe number during my test I pushed it just a little bit past that (13 maybe 14 sheets) and it performed just fine. I wouldn't make a habit of that because I don't want to shorten the lifespan of this shredder but it performed great for me. The bin that it comes with holds a ton of shredded paper and tipping it out into a grocery bag to throw away was very easy. It has a switch inside the mouth of the shredder that automatically turns it on when something is inserted and it continues for a little bit after the paper has fully gone through just to clear out the teeth. I've used shredders in the past that had a manual switch and that got exhausting. You could leave this plugged in all day if you wanted too and it would be right there ready to go.