Free Staples Shredding Coupon & Is It Safe?
I am a huge fan of Staples and their many rewarding programs and features. Their customer service has certainly been hit or miss for me in the past, however overall I benefit from being a Staples customer. Whether it is Staples shredding, their generous ink recycling program or their many lucrative Visa gift card promos, I often find myself in Staples stores.
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Paper Shredding at Staples – Need to Know
One of the things I HATE most is shredding all of my documents, but it is a necessary evil. Between all of my various businesses I end up with a lot of stuff that needs to be shredded and while I have a decent shredder at home, emptying it is messy and I simply don’t enjoy the experience. Plus it does tend to overheat after awhile. In comes the Staples free shredding coupon.
Is Shredding at Staples Safe?
Just like thousands of businesses around the country, it appears that Staples uses an offsite shredding company to handle the shredding of documents. This means your items are placed into a secure bin to be picked up later. I have worked at many companies that use this same system and find it is secure enough for me. The shredding bins are locked, but it is also important to know that your items aren’t shredded on-site.
Don’t Pay Full Price for Shredding
The normal cost to shred documents at Staples is $1 per pound, but you can now get 5 pounds for free on each visit, with the coupon (see below) working more than once. When shredding documents at Staples, normally my wife and I go in, recycle our ink cartridges, shred our documents and take care of any gift card or other business we have. Good times.
How to Get the Staples Free Shredding Coupon
So how do you get a free Staples coupon for paper shredding? Well, the coupon isn’t always available, but as of August, 2020 Staples has returned with an awesome coupon that gives 5 pounds of free shredding per visit. It isn’t quite as good as the old free shredding coupon, however it is a way to handle shredding those messy documents without having to pay.
To get the free paper shredding coupon from Staples simply visit the Staples coupons page. You will also find many other money saving Staples coupons if you are into that sort of thing. Hopefully they will continue to offer these free shredding coupons into the future!
Bottom Line
Since I know a lot of you are in Staples stores regularly, I figured this might be a nice little trick to share with you. The Staples shredding coupon is good through the end of the year and can be used over and over, so there is no limit as to the amount of shredding you can have done. Let’s hope they bring back the coupon for next year as well, because you can never have enough free shredding!
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I haven’t seen a shredding coupon in a long time
I know you can donate shredded paper on BoxGiver.com
Just took 5# in for the free shredding. Staples charged me $1.33 in tax. First time I’ve ever experienced that. ?????
Your state’s tax law determins if you are responsible for paying sales tax on a coupon discounted “sale”, and if a specific type of service is even taxable or not.
The coupon says good til the end of august for 5lbs.
Does anyone know if Staples offers the free shredding coupon in 2021?
Thanks
They do not, you can always go to staples.com/coupons to check.
Staples is hiding this program now, February 2020. I get a 404 now when I click the author link.
They have replaced the “free” shredding coupon with 20% off.
I just went to check out the coupon, and it offered 5 pounds for free for me. They may have changed it since you last updated!
Thanks! I have updated the post. Good news!
I cannot find the free up to 5 pounds shredding coupon when I go to Staples coupon page.
What about if there are sheets of paper that are stapled together in your shredding load?
Well, I was just going to head over to Stapkes to shred a bag but, after reading the reviews I’m hesitant since they dont do it there. I Googled and found UPS shreds….anyone ever use them,?
In modern times, you dont trust anyone with anything. Shred your own. Get INDUSTRIAL and nothing overheats. You can buy used. Its more expensive than the cheap small ones, but worth it unless you have Iron Mountain come by your home. Then I would be jealous.
It’s easy enough and cheap enough to just buy a shredder. Buy one at an office supply store with your Chase Ink card to get 5X points. But be sure it is a cross cut shredder, not one that just cuts in strips.
I think you live in a different tax bracket sir. Not everyone has an extra 50 bucks lying around to purchase something they rarely use. And they definitely don’t want to use a credit card and go into debt for it.
I learned my lesson about shredding stuff and being careful about what goes out in the recycling bin a long time ago.
Now if only there was a Staples less than 60+ miles or so from me. Sucks living in the “sticks”!
Hope they make this Office Max and Office Depot merger happen!
can you draw out a scenario in which a document you fail to shred ends up in your security being compromised? I don’t buy it. Just safe your time and recycle your paper were you born in 1958?
Identity theft does happen, but I would lie if I said I was too worried about it. With that said, there is stuff I would rather have shredded. I guess the point of this post is to sort of say I am saving my time. Instead of shredding everything, I found a free way (that works within my schedule) to get others to do it.
Hey! I was born in 1958. What’s wrong with being born in 1958? 😉
I do both. I shred as soon as I open and sort the mail. But when I was moving, then moving my mother, it was easier to bulk shred piles of old documents at Staples.
I stumbled upon a pretty valuable coupon in my Rewards page of Staples.Com the other day for printing. It didn’t have a value on it so I thought it would be $5 – $10. I got new business cards for FTU Advanced this weekend with it. Turned out the coupon was worth $50! The receipt printed with a coupon for the balance.
Hey…hey…there are a lot of us born in 1958. I think that’s age discrimination.
Many places, including Best Buy, are now recycling gift cards. I keep a bag and just drop them in the recycle box at the the store entrance.
Tried shredding GCs there? one tends to collect a whole lot of plastic after a while…
This is a nice service they provide; however I don’t know how comfortable I feel about turning over to staples/3rd party to shred.
I actually just bought a paper shredder with staples rebate gift cards.
They run this coupon quite often.
Yes it has been available for several months straight and is good through the end of the year! I have used it many times.
Yep, I saw this in my local paper too approx 3 weeks ago…so I climbed on my home scale with and sans paper to be shredded and headed over to Staples when I was going that way. Yes, they do it off site so I thought the same thing about really sensitive info., but like you, I was surprised that the gentleman let me keep my coupon for future use til end of year. (He said they offer this all the time). I just don’t like overusing my home shredder….5# is a lot of paper!!! Thanks again for all the good/Great things you come up with for us.