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Yeah, professional tools cost professional money, but I was hoping there was something in the middle. The ScanSnap equivalent of a shredder -- the pro versions of sheet-feed scanners are several thousand dollars at least. Is there a similar value shredder?

Maybe I was over-thinking it with 10 sheets. My desire is to shred junk mail without the indignity of having to open even the fattest faux-hand-addressed envelopes.

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I have a $250 Fellowes MS-460C shredder that does this well.

Handles 10 sheets in the normal shredder, or spam mail with CDs inside the envelope for the heavy duty shredder. I can throw my junk mail without opening them in the heavy duty shredder entry without worrying about those plastic fake credit cards advertisers sometimes send.

Thanks, that's just the sort of advice I was looking for.

>My desire is to shred junk mail without the indignity of having to open even the fattest faux-hand-addressed envelopes.

My strategy for this is to keep a bucket of that crap and shred every 6 months or so at a pro location. I've considered pulping the docs myself (mostly out of curiosity in the process), but from what I can tell, pragmatically it's more work than it is worth.

Why do you shred junk mail? Does it contain any information that isn't already public?

Mostly I need to shred credit card and other financial offers, to make sure nobody else tries to fill them out for me.

Yeah, cash advance checks are evil junk mail that the banks like to send every month.

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