ShredStation Express

It was great that they did come to the house to do the shredding, but the person lacked customer service. My mother had to do a majority of the lifting of materials while the person complained out loud about how much she needed shredded. Next time, please send someone with more manners.

As a professional organizer that lives within walking distance to Shred Station Express the convenience is priceless. The customer service is always friendly and I often suggest to my clients that spending approx $ 10/​box of paper rather than wasting countless hours shredding with a small shredder at home that burns out every 10 minutes is a waste of time. Peace of mind and completed task in a matter of seconds.

For the eco-​friendly and/​or paranoid, this place is great. Regarding customer service: the staff cares about the job, and takes it seriously. (And gave me directions back to Springfield.)
I had a hard drive physically fail on me (dropping a heavy object on your laptop will do that.), so doing a wipe at home was not an option. The clerk let me watch the machine crush the drive into a million little pieces.
I also brought in my bag of «misc. electronic crap» (old batteries, ink cartidges, CD-​ROMs from the 2000s, broken remotes, etc.) — she took everything (even the batteries that were leaking acid), plus did the drive shredding, for a flat $ 20. To some, that may seem steep, but try going to «electronics recycling day» at the Fairfax County dump — you’d nearly spend as much in gas idling a gus-​guzzler in the hour-​long line. Plus, the peace of mind that any confidential information from your computer has been DoD-​level destroyed is worth it.

I had 12 boxes of old business records that needed shredding and our little shredder just wasn’t going to cut it. Was able to drop off all 12 boxes and the two gentleman working there helped me carry in the boxes. For $ 120, I left with the peace of mind that the job was in good hands

Went here to buy some items they had listed on Craigslist. I contacted them and advised that I would come purchase/​pick up the items that evening before they closed. When I showed up they had sold the items to someone else. Notification prior to driving all the way out there would have been nice.
I must note, this place seems like a thrift store/​shredding place. It looks like a lot of things they take in they don’t shred and after the previous owner leaves, if it’s in good shape, they slap it up on Craigslist. Sleazy operation. BEWARE!!! I would never entrust this business to shred/​dispose of anything for me based on this experience.

Their recycling service involves selling DVDs/​LPs/​CDs/​electronics people bring them to recycle over Craigslist. Anyway, ShredStation Express posted an ad for a lot vinyl records. We told them we would come by at a set time and buy the lot, and they agreed to this.
Long story short, we drove out to ShredStation Express and was told upon arriving (early, I might add) in a very rude, dismissive manner that someone else bought the records a couple hours earlier.
That’s fine – I understand they are a business and want to turn over merchandise – but it would have been nice if they had emailed or called or something to let us know after the records had been purchased by someone else and saved us a trip out there (hey, guess what, I don’t hang out in depressing industrial parks for kicks), or if they had just apologized when we arrived.

Am moving and am shocked how many years of financial documents I had kept. I would have been at my shredder for a month. I brought 2 average size boxes of documents, some still in envelopes, paid about 26 bucks and got to watch them get shredded. Worth the drive and price for peace of mind. Nice people.

I went by here with a couple boxes full of paper. They weighed it, walked it behind the glass where you could see the shredder and fed it through the machine. Pretty simple process, would’ve taken me hours to feed it through a personal machine. Prices seem reasonable for paper, I didn’t ask for other prices, but saw they take most electronics, and can destroy hard drives. Hours are a little tricky for individual use, but a good deal if you can make it.

I got rid of my useless but personal paper for last five years in just a few minutes. They are awesome. Mark from ShredStation Express took my boxes directly from my apartment. A few hours later, I received a certification of destruction including how much my «junks» weighed — a whoopie 111 lbs. Most of shredding places require you to drive to their local stores during their business hours. For the price and the type of service, ShredStation is definitely one of the best choices. If its service does not change, I’ll continue to use it in the future.
The Shred Station service I had is in Silver Spring, but its office in Alexandria offers the same type of service.

After shredding for 5hrs with no end in sight I googled and foung these guys. Yippppeeee! They securely shredded many years of personal papers AND they recycled my vhs and cassette tapes, old cds, dvds, floppy and zip disks AND took my old wires, cables and odd outdated computer and phone equipment. VERY reasonable prices, very easy to access and saved me countless hours of work and guilt!

My shred box finally got full again so I came back to get it shredded. I didn’t know but I also would’ve brought my old laptop hard drive to get shredded too. I was going to throw it away but wasn’t comfortable. I wiped it but wasn’t sure. Scott was very helpful and knowledgeable also. The store is located right on the corner and wasn’t hard to find with the big green truck parked right out front. The greatest part is he recycles everything. If you got paper or hard drives, he is the only guy in town!