Everything was excellent, except the late arrival, for which I forgave them because the weather was totally miserable that day, and in NYC, any raindrops bring traffic to a snarl. Just wish that someone had called to tell me they would be late.
An employee, whose name I neglected to record, brought a humungus bin on wheels to our apartment door, where we had 18 thirty gallon sized garbage bags waiting, filled with papers . Since their truck brings all shredded paper to be recycled, the plastic garbage bags couldnt go through the shredding process, so the contents had to be emptied into the bin. The man treated each bag with careful respectfulness of the need for those papers to be private, gently emptying them while focusing on the bag and being careful to shake each one to insure there were no papers left inside, and handing each emptied bag to us. He was all business, and I was relieved and grateful that he was there to process and not to look at the content of the papers.
After the 17th bag, the bin was full, so he said he'd bring the last bag along with the bin, and he pulled the lid of the bin down so there would be no possibility of any papers flying off. We were able to accompany him to the truck, meeting his partner, who had been waiting to help him roll the very heavy bin to the waiting truck.
Then the fun began! Lots of buttons pushed, noises, the bin put in place and grabbed by metal pincers that held it steady as it raised the bin, then tipped it over, and we could see on a closed circuit tv the way that the papers were first pushed out, then over toward the shredding devices. We watched the papers whirling and whooshing into the shredding blades. I have to admit that I wondered if possibly we were looking at a tape of stuff getting shredded, and that we weren't really seeing our own papers. But that was clearly refuted when the remains of the 18th bag were put into the bin and put through the same process and we saw on the tv a much smaller load undergoing the shredding.
Start to finish took about a half hour Everything was handled with professionalism and efficiency, security and protection.