A number of online stores also offer personal shredders for sale over the Internet. Terri Considine, product manager for shredders with Fellowes, says buyers need to think about how and how often they will use a personal paper shredder before they select one. There are a lot of people buying second shredders who probably wouldn't have needed to buy another one if they had bought the right one the first time. That's apparently enough capacity for a lot of people. Henreckson says such machines account for about half the sales into homes.
Some machines have a small throat width, which requires folding sheets of paper before shredding.
That's a nuisance. Type of cut. This is called a strip cut. This is called cross cut. Henreckson says a straight-cut shredder is sufficient for destroying documents such as those preapproved credit card applications that come in the mail.