SHREDDING PARTY.(The Talk of the Town)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 15-JAN-07

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A lot of stuff was shredded when Shred Across America, a seventeen-city document-shredding tour, stopped in Union Square recently. People who had heard about what Staples, the tour's sponsor, was calling "a mobile shredding event" brought over bags of old bills and checks and sensitive financial documents to be shredded. Staples had set up a stage in the park, on which the event's host, Justin Patricoff, demonstrated the store's shredders. Patricoff, a thirty-year-old promotional-tour veteran from Dayton, Ohio, has been on the road for the past three and a half years, most recently as part of the Got Milk? Milk...

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