Selling a business, retiring, or closing a professional practice is a major undertaking. There are customers or patients to notify, accounts to close, equipment to deal with, leases to end, and years—sometimes decades—of paperwork to sort through.
Then you look at all those filing cabinets and boxes and ask: What am I supposed to do with all these old records?
That’s where FileShred can help.
Whether you recently sold a business, closed a medical practice, retired from a law firm, shut down an accounting office, or simply have years of business records you no longer need, professional document shredding provides a secure and convenient way to dispose of confidential information.
Closing the Business Doesn’t End Your Responsibility for Confidential Records
Old business files can contain an enormous amount of sensitive information. Even though the business or practice may no longer be operating, those documents can still contain information that should never end up in the trash or recycling bin.
Records may include:
- Customer and patient information
- Social Security numbers
- Employee files
- Payroll records
- Tax documents
- Medical records
- Banking and financial information
- Credit card information
- Contracts and legal documents
- Vendor information
- Copies of driver’s licenses and identification
- Business correspondence
Depending on your industry and the type of information you maintained, various privacy and record-retention requirements may also apply. Before destroying business records, determine which documents you are legally or professionally required to retain.
Once you know what can be destroyed, FileShred can take care of the shredding.
You May Have More Paper Than You Realize
If you’ve been operating a business for 10, 20, 30 years or longer, the amount of paperwork can be surprising.
There may be filing cabinets throughout the office, boxes in a basement, records in a storage room, or documents that have been sitting in an off-site storage facility for years.
Don’t spend days feeding those documents through a small office shredder.
FileShred comes to you.
Our powerful mobile shredding trucks are designed to destroy large quantities of documents quickly. Whether you have a few boxes or an entire office full of records, we can provide a shredding solution that fits your needs.
We Do the Heavy Lifting
Closing a business is enough work already. You shouldn’t have to carry hundreds of pounds of paper outside to have it shredded.
Our team does the work.
Have boxes in a basement? Filing cabinets upstairs? Records in several rooms? Let us know where the documents are located, and our team can remove them under your direction.
Your documents are placed into secure shredding containers and transported directly to our mobile shredding truck, where they are destroyed at your location before we leave.
You can even watch your documents being shredded.
No Need to Remove Staples and Paper Clips
Preparing decades of records for shredding may sound like another big project. With FileShred, it doesn’t have to be.
There’s generally no need to spend hours removing staples, paper clips, folders, or many common office fasteners. Our industrial shredding equipment is designed to handle everyday office documents efficiently.
Separate the records you need to keep from the documents that can be destroyed, and we’ll handle the shredding.
We make the process as easy as possible.
Don’t Forget About Old Hard Drives
Paper isn’t the only place confidential business information may be stored.
When closing an office or practice, you may also discover old computers and hard drives containing customer, employee, financial, medical, or other confidential information.
Simply deleting files isn’t the same as physically destroying the data storage device.
FileShred also offers hard drive destruction, making it easier to address both your paper documents and electronic data as part of your business cleanout.
Secure, Professional On-Site Shredding
FileShred is a NAID AAA Certified shredding company, and we provide secure document destruction services for businesses, professionals, medical practices, and individuals throughout Connecticut and the Springfield, Massachusetts area.
After your documents have been destroyed, we provide a Certificate of Destruction. The shredded paper is then recycled, helping you dispose of your old records securely and responsibly.
One Call Can Take Care of Years of Paperwork
If you recently sold your business, retired, or closed a professional practice, don’t let boxes of old records become one more problem you have to deal with.
Call FileShred at 860-261-9595.
Tell us approximately how much paper you have and where it is located. We can explain how the shredding process works, provide pricing, and help you choose a convenient service date.
We offer shredding services Monday through Saturday, and next-day appointments may be available.
Sold the Business? Closed the Practice? Let FileShred Handle the Shredding.
You spent years building and operating your business. When it’s time to close that chapter, make sure the confidential information you collected over those years is properly destroyed.
FileShred makes it easy. We come to you, do the work, shred your documents at your location, and provide you with a Certificate of Destruction.
Call FileShred today at 860-261-9595 and put those old business records behind you.
