Updated November 2026 · Hudson, New Hampshire
Shredding service Hudson NH: two roads to our counter, one zone for pickup
From Hudson you can reach our Tewksbury shredder by the Everett Turnpike or by the back way through Dracut and Lowell, or you can book a Zone 2 pickup and stay put. This page lays out both routes, every price from one box to twenty, and how Hudson’s own carts and transfer station fit around shredding.
99¢ per pound at our Tewksbury drop-off, weekdays 10 to 5. Certificate of Destruction on every job.
- 99¢ per pound
- Since 2007
- BBB A+
- HIPAA BAA on request
Quick answer
New Hampshire Document Shredding shreds for Hudson at its office, 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA, about 22 miles and 35 minutes from Hudson Town Hall by the Everett Turnpike and I-495. Drop-off costs 99 cents per pound plus $34.90 in per-job fees, so five banker’s boxes come to $183.40. A pickup from Hudson is normally Zone 2, adding a $159.95 transportation fee, and the zone is confirmed when you book. It is the same document shredding either way, with a Certificate of Destruction on every job.
Pick your Hudson option in one minute
There are three ways to get paper from Hudson into our shredder. They all end at the same machine at our Tewksbury office, and they all come with a Certificate of Destruction. The difference is who does the driving and who watches.
| Drop-off | Zone 2 pickup | Witnessed session | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Who drives | You | Our driver | You |
| Booking | None, walk in on weekdays | Appointment | Appointment |
| Shredding rate | 99¢ per pound, or $15 small and $20 large per box at 10+ boxes | Same as drop-off | $1.99 per pound, $100 minimum |
| Added fees | $34.90 per job | $34.90 per job plus $159.95 Zone 2 | $34.90 per job |
| When it is shredded | Same business day | After it reaches the office | While you watch |
| Best for | One to nine boxes from a Hudson home | Ten or more boxes, or no one free to drive | Files someone must see destroyed |
Our rule of thumb from the counter: if the boxes fit in your car and you have a weekday morning, drive. Hudson is one of the shorter Zone 2 trips we see, and drop-off shredding saves you the $159.95 pickup fee outright. If the boxes do not fit, or they are on the second floor of an office on Lowell Road and nobody wants to carry them, book off-site shredding and let the driver handle it.
Most Hudson customers only ever need the first two. A household clearing a filing cabinet drives down once a year. A practice or an office in one of the industrial parks books a pickup when the storage room fills. Some do both: drop-off for the steady trickle, pickup for the annual purge.
The witnessed option is for a narrower group. An HR manager closing out personnel files, an attorney releasing a client’s old matter, or a family that wants to see a parent’s papers go. You book a time, bring the boxes, and stand beside the shredder. The witnessed shredding page explains how a session runs.
Two good roads from Hudson to 1215 Main Street
Hudson is the rare town with two sensible ways to reach us. One stays on highways and is easy to follow. The other is shorter in miles and runs through Dracut and Lowell on local roads. In light traffic they take about the same time, roughly 35 minutes from Hudson Town Hall at 12 School Street.
The highway route starts down Lowell Road, which is Route 3A. Follow it south and take the Circumferential Highway over the Sagamore Bridge into Nashua, where it meets the Everett Turnpike. Take US 3 South through Tyngsborough and Chelmsford for about ten miles, then I-495 North toward Lawrence. Leave at the Route 38 exit for Lowell and Tewksbury and follow Main Street south about two and a half miles to our door.
The back route also starts on Lowell Road, but turns onto Dracut Road and crosses into Dracut, Massachusetts. From there local roads carry you into Lowell, where you pick up Route 38 and follow it south out of the city and onto Main Street in Tewksbury. It is about five miles shorter. It also has more traffic lights, so it rarely saves time.
Time of day matters more than the road you pick. Our counter opens at 10 a.m., which puts most Hudson drivers on the turnpike after the morning commute into Massachusetts has thinned out. The afternoon is trickier. US 3 and I-495 both load up as the day ends, and the counter closes at 5, so a 3 p.m. departure from Hudson is about as late as we would plan it.
Winter is the other variable. After a storm, the highway route is usually cleared first and is the safer choice. If the weather is bad enough that you are second-guessing the trip, wait a day. Paper keeps, and there is no appointment to miss.
Whichever way you come, the last stretch is Main Street, Route 38. Our building is at 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, with free parking out front. Pull up, come in, and staff will help you carry the boxes. A separate drive guide from Nashua covers the trip from the Nashua side of the river.
What you pay from Hudson, line by line
A Hudson bill has two or three parts. The shredding charge depends on weight or box count. The $34.90 per-job fees are the same on every job: $14.95 for the HIPAA filing that covers your Certificate of Destruction, and $19.95 for recycling the shred. A pickup adds the $159.95 Zone 2 transportation fee. Nothing else, unless stairs or restricted access add a handling fee, which we quote up front.
Below 10 boxes, you pay 99 cents a pound. A full banker’s box is about 30 pounds, so the shredding charge is roughly $29.70 a box. At 10 boxes or more, the flat rate takes over: $15 for a small box, $20 for a large banker’s box. That switch is why nine full boxes, at about $267.30 before fees, can cost more than ten at $200.00. Bring the tenth box.
At drop-off, the scale decides. Paper that is packed tight weighs more, and a box of loose letters weighs less, so your bill can land on either side of these estimates. You see the weight and the total before anything goes into the shredder. Our shredding rates page lists every price we charge, and our guide to shredding cost compares the options in more depth.
What happens when you walk in from Hudson
The counter routine takes a few minutes for a few boxes. Nobody needs an appointment, and we do not ask you to unpack anything. You are paying by the pound or by the box, so the only thing we need to do with you is weigh or count, agree on the number and take payment.
- Park and come in. Free parking is right outside 1215 Main Street. Tell us how many boxes you have and someone will help bring them in.
- Weigh or count. Under 10 boxes, the boxes go on a floor scale where you can read it. At 10 or more, we count and apply the flat box rate.
- Hand over media separately. Old drives, phones and discs go aside in their own bag. They are physically destroyed and quoted per item.
- Pay and get the paperwork started. You pay the shredding charge plus $34.90. The job is logged for your Certificate of Destruction.
- Shredded the same business day. Your paper is cross-cut shredded at the office that day, and the shred is recycled.
Our counter is open Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Walk-in drop-off is weekdays only. If you need a time outside those hours for a witnessed session or a pickup, ask when you book and we will see what we can arrange.
Sagamore, Clement Road and Hudson’s working side
Hudson’s economic development pages name two industrial parks as Economic Revitalization Zones, designated by the state in 2008. Add the offices along Lowell Road and Route 102 and you have the places most Hudson business pickups start.
Sagamore Industrial Park
Just north of the Sagamore Bridge, between Route 3A and the Merrimack River, on roads such as Executive Drive, Friars Drive and Hampshire Drive. Close to the turnpike, which makes it an easy pickup. Industrial and office tenants tend to purge in bulk when they do it.
Clement Road Industrial Park
On Route 111 between Sullivan Road and Clement Road, including Constitution Drive, Hudson Park Drive and Wall Street. Route 111 runs east to I-93 in Windham. Companies in a park like this usually have HR, payroll and job files to clear.
Lowell Road and Route 102
Hudson’s main roads carry the kind of offices that make steady paper: medical and dental practices, insurance and tax offices, real estate agents. Smaller volumes, all year. Many drop off a few boxes a quarter and book one pickup a year for the big purge.
For any of these, a pickup works the same way. You pack and seal the boxes, book online or by phone, and our driver collects them from your door. The paper is shredded at our Tewksbury office after it arrives, and you receive a Certificate of Destruction. Ground-level or elevator access keeps you at the Zone 2 price. Our Hudson business shredding page covers office cleanouts in more detail.
Medical practices have an extra layer. HIPAA’s Privacy Rule, 45 CFR 164.530(c), requires covered entities to keep reasonable safeguards on protected health information, and that duty runs through disposal. We sign a Business Associate Agreement on request. Hudson practices can read our medical shredding service page for retention periods and practice-sized cost examples.
When a pickup beats the drive from Hudson
The pickup fee from Hudson is $159.95, and it never changes with the size of the job. So the question is simple. Is that $159.95 worth less than the time, the lifting and the trips it replaces? For a household with three boxes, almost never. For an office with forty, almost always. The middle is where people ask us.
Drive it: 1 to 6 boxes
Fits in one car. About 35 minutes each way. The pickup fee would be larger than the shredding charge itself. A weekday morning trip is the clear winner.
Think about it: 7 to 15 boxes
Two car trips for most people, or one in a van. If you have help and a free morning, drive. If the boxes are upstairs or your time is billed by the hour, book the pickup.
Book it: 16 boxes and up
More than most cars can carry in one go. One pickup replaces several round trips down Route 3A and the turnpike, and the fee becomes a small slice of the bill.
Either way: sealed boxes
Tape the boxes shut. At the counter we weigh or count them closed. With a pickup they stay sealed in our custody until they reach the shredder.
Access changes the math as well. The Zone 2 price assumes ground level or an elevator. A walk-up office over a storefront, or a basement with a narrow stair, adds a handling fee that we quote before the job. If that fee plus $159.95 starts to look steep, carrying the boxes down to the front door yourself before the driver arrives often brings the price back to the zone rate. Ask when you book.
Timing is the last factor. A drop-off is shredded the same business day you bring it. A pickup is booked ahead and shredded once it reaches the office. If you need paper gone before a closing, a lease end or an inspection, either book early or drive it down yourself that week.
Hudson’s Casella carts, the West Road transfer station, and your paper
Hudson runs automated curbside collection with Casella. According to the town’s 2026 guide, each home gets a trash container and a 96-gallon recycling cart, and recycling is collected every other week on your trash day. Containers must be at the curb by 6:30 a.m. Recyclables go in loose, never bagged.
Hudson’s program is zero-sort. Junk mail, periodicals, office paper and paper cups go in the same cart as bottles and cans. That is handy for catalogs and flyers. It also means the paper in that cart is loose, unsorted and readable until it reaches a recycling plant.
The town’s transfer station is off West Road, at the end of Old Landfill Road. Passes are required for household items, construction debris and outdoor items, and each legal residence gets three per calendar year, picked up at the Department of Public Works, 2 Constitution Drive, with a valid ID.
From April through the end of November, the transfer station also opens on Saturdays from 8 a.m. to noon for leaf and yard waste, cardboard and metal, with no pass needed. The town’s guide says cardboard and paper can be dropped off there on open dates and yard waste dates too.
The transfer station is residential only. The town’s rules say commercial vehicles are not allowed, except by prior agreement with the Public Works Director for residential purposes. So a Hudson business cannot use it to clear old files, and nobody should use it for personal records in any case.
- In the Casella cart: catalogs, newspapers, magazines, junk mail with no account details, flattened boxes.
- To our shredder: statements, pay stubs, tax returns, medical bills, anything with a Social Security number, account number or signature.
- In a separate bag for a per-item quote: drives, phones, USB sticks, CDs and tapes, handled through our hard drive destruction service.
Shredding does not cost you the recycling. Everything we shred is recycled, which is what the $19.95 environmental fee pays for. The only difference is that it is confetti before it travels anywhere. If you just have a small bag, local shred events run by banks and towns are worth watching for.
For Hudson homes: what to shred and when
Hudson households bring us the same few kinds of paper over and over. Tax returns past their keeping period. Bank and credit card statements. Medical bills and insurance explanations of benefits. The folder of a late parent’s papers that nobody has opened in three years. Our residential shredding page goes through each type.
Tax paperwork
The IRS says to keep most records for three years, six if income was underreported by more than 25 percent, and seven for a bad debt or worthless securities claim. After that, shred the return and its backup together.
Moving or downsizing
Shred before the move. The truck costs money by the load, and the paper costs the same 99 cents a pound now as later. Two or three boxes from a Hudson house is a short weekday trip.
Settling an estate
Hold back what the estate attorney and the final returns need. Then shred the rest in one go, or book a witnessed session if the family wants to see it. Our Hudson home shredding guide has a household checklist.
| Tax situation (IRS guidance) | How long to keep the records |
|---|---|
| Most returns and supporting records | 3 years |
| You filed a claim for credit or refund after filing | 3 years from filing, or 2 years from paying the tax, whichever is later |
| Employment tax records, for Hudson households with a nanny or caregiver on payroll | At least 4 years |
| Income left off the return was more than 25 percent of the gross shown | 6 years |
| Claim for a loss from worthless securities or a bad debt deduction | 7 years |
Those periods are for the IRS. A mortgage lender, an insurer or a lawyer may ask you to hold some papers longer, so check before you shred anything tied to a house sale, an open claim or a dispute. When in doubt, keep the folder another year. Shredding is permanent.
Before you seal a box, pull out the things people regret losing: deeds, car titles, passports, birth and marriage certificates, the most recent tax return, and anything tied to an open insurance claim. Leave staples, clips, rubber bands and folders in. Take out binder rings and hanging-folder frames. That is all the prep there is.
Hudson’s neighbours on our map
Hudson faces Nashua across the Merrimack, and many Hudson residents work on the Nashua side. Our shredding in Nashua page covers the city’s options in the same Zone 2. To the east, our Pelham shredding service page covers the border town where Route 38 crosses into Massachusetts on its way to Tewksbury.
The whole town uses a single ZIP code, 03051. When you book, the address you enter is what we use to confirm your zone and plan the driver’s route. For every town we serve and how each one reaches us, see the service areas page.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a shredding drop-off location in Hudson, NH?
No. We have no office, kiosk or drop box in Hudson or anywhere in New Hampshire. All shredding happens at 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA, about 22 miles from Hudson Town Hall. You can drive your boxes down on a weekday between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., or book a Zone 2 pickup and we collect them from your Hudson address.
What is the fastest way from Hudson to your office?
In light traffic, both routes take about 35 minutes. The highway route runs Lowell Road to the Sagamore Bridge, US 3 South, I-495 North and the Route 38 exit, about 22 miles. The back route runs Lowell Road to Dracut Road, through Dracut and Lowell, then Route 38 south, about 17 miles with more traffic lights.
How much does a pickup from Hudson cost?
Hudson is normally Zone 2, with a $159.95 transportation fee. Add the shredding charge, 99 cents per pound under 10 boxes or $15 to $20 per box at 10 or more, and the $34.90 per-job fees. Ten banker’s boxes picked up from Hudson total $394.85, and twenty total $594.85. We confirm the zone when you book.
Can I recycle personal papers in Hudson’s Casella cart instead?
The town’s zero-sort cart takes junk mail, periodicals and office paper, so it will accept the paper. It does not protect it. Recycled paper travels loose and readable until it is pulped. Anything with an account number, Social Security number, medical detail or signature should be shredded first. Our shred is 100 percent recycled anyway.
Do I need to remove staples before I bring boxes?
No. Staples, paper clips, binder clips, rubber bands and file folders can stay in. Remove three-ring binder hardware, hanging-folder frames and anything that is not paper. Bag hard drives, phones and discs separately, because media is physically destroyed and quoted per item.
Will a Hudson medical office get a Business Associate Agreement?
Yes, on request, before the first job. Covered entities and business associates in Hudson can use drop-off for small loads and a Zone 2 pickup for an annual purge. Every job comes with a Certificate of Destruction, covered by the $14.95 HIPAA filing fee inside the $34.90 per-job fees. Call (978) 636-0301 to set it up.
Is pickup shredding done the same day?
No. Pickups are booked ahead and are never same day. You book a date, the driver collects your sealed boxes, and the paper is shredded at our Tewksbury office after it arrives. Paper you drop off at the counter yourself is shredded the same business day. If you have a deadline, book early and tell us the date.
What do I get to prove the paper was destroyed?
A Certificate of Destruction on every job, drop-off, pickup or witnessed. It records the job and the date, and it costs nothing beyond the $14.95 HIPAA filing fee that is part of the $34.90 per-job fees. Keep it with your tax files, your HR records or your practice’s compliance binder.
Sources
- Town of Hudson, Transfer Station Hours and Rules (location, passes, residential use) (checked November 2026)
- Town of Hudson and Casella, 2026 Guide to Your Trash and Recycling Service (PDF) (checked November 2026)
- Town of Hudson, Economic Revitalization (Sagamore and Clement Road industrial parks) (checked November 2026)
- Town of Hudson, Location of Hudson (Route 3A, Route 111, Route 102, I-93, Everett Turnpike) (checked November 2026)
- 45 CFR 164.530, HIPAA Privacy Rule administrative requirements (eCFR) (checked November 2026)
- IRS, How long should I keep records (checked November 2026)
Get the Hudson boxes out of the house
Drive down either road on a weekday and walk in, or book a Zone 2 pickup and we collect from your door. You pay 99 cents a pound, see the weight first, and get a Certificate of Destruction for every job.
New Hampshire Document Shredding
1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA 01876. On Route 38, about 22 miles from Hudson Town Hall. Free parking out front.
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Witnessed sessions and pickups outside these hours by appointment.
- Drop-off: 99¢ per pound, walk in on weekdays
- Pickup: same rates plus the Zone 2 fee of $159.95
- Witnessed: $1.99 per pound, $100 minimum, by appointment
New Hampshire Document Shredding · 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA 01876 · (978) 636-0301 · Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.