Fellowes Powershred P-57Cs

I recently purchased this shredder because I was moving, so I had to get rid of a bunch of papers. I liked the fact that it shreds paperclips and credit cards. It made it easy for me to shred papers w/o… having to take the additional step to remove the paperclips. In the month that I've been using it, I had one "problem". I was feeding a couple of papers and they got stuck. Easy solution: shred forward, shred reverse, repeat. I found that the reason it got stuck was because there were too many shredded pieces piling up in the bin, so it didn't leave any room for the new pieces to be shredded. I found the best thing to do to prevent this was to push the shredded pieces down occasionally. The only downside to this shredder is that there is no window for you to see how full the bin is getting. Hence, you have to periodically check and periodically push your pieces down, which was the least of my worries with this shredder. I believe the instructions that came with it said you should use the shredder for 10-15 minutes at a time or something like that. I definitely went beyond the recommended time limit and didn't have any problems. In terms of noise level, it's not the quietest thing nor the loudest. If you're shredding and your roommate is trying to talk to you (like mine was), then you just have to raise your voice a bit to have a conversation. In terms of the number of sheets to shred, I believe the description says it can shred 8 sheets. It can do 8, but it's going to be a slow process. I shred 6 at one time and it struggled a little bit to shred and it took a little bit longer than shredding 2 sheets. I wouldn't shred a lot of sheets at one time with this shredder, but if you're doing that, then you probably need a heavy duty shredder for the job.

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