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Look aroudn and you will find services for everything. By looking around you will find catering services, dating services, dog walking services, cleaning services, financial services, and much, much more. Just the other day I cam across a type of service I have not realized – document destruction companies. The concept makes sense now that I think about it. I have to admit though; at first I was under the impression that this was a personal service. My first emotion was shock at the fact that there really was someone out there too lazy to stick their junk mail and private papers in a shredder beside their desk. Then I realized that this is really for a corporation or business with a lot of sensitive information that needs to be destroyed.

One such company is a pharmaceutical company that I visited. As I wandered around I noticed these bins that were all over the building. The employees would drop in various papers throughout the day. The bottom of the cabinet is locked with a key that only the shredding company has the key to. The paper shredding services come once or twice a week, remove the bag full of papers and replace it with an empty one. The bag is taken to another location to be destroyed and the cycle begins again.

I suppose the theory behind the paper shredding services is a logical one. But the one thing I can’t consider is whether destroying these documents on site could not be just as secure. Hopefully for the company that creates controlled drugs, this method remains secure.