SANATOGA PA – Shredding confidential and personal documents, it seems, is an early morning affair.
Hanna Hartman, manager of the National Penn Bank branch on East High Street in Sanatoga PA, said dozens of area residents had arrived within just the first hour Saturday (May 1, 2010) for the bank’s sixth year in providing free shredding services to the community.
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Cars filled with boxes destined for disposal streamed up South Sunnybrook Road to the bank parking lot entrance, where National Penn employees helped unload and dump their contents into plastic bins. The bins then were wheeled over to an industrial-grade shredder that chewed full-sized sheets into unrecognizable bits of confetti.
Which is exactly what the public hoped for, said National Penn Community Relations Specialist Mary Sobjak. Since the bank began promoting such events in 2005, she reported, its shredders have ground through about 144 tons of confidential paper. Seventy-five tons were pulped last year alone.
The numbers could climb higher this year, Sobjak added. The bank has scheduled 25 shredding events across its service area during 2010.
