Updated November 2026 · Salem, NH
Salem NH business shredding for Route 28 and Route 97 offices
Salem NH business shredding for the dealers, stores and medical offices along Broadway and Main Street: what the FACTA Disposal Rule asks of a dealership, what a Zone 1 pickup costs, and when the short drive to Tewksbury makes more sense.
Zone 1 pickup from Salem $129.95, plus 99¢ per pound or $20 per banker’s box at 10 or more. Certificate of Destruction on every job.
- Zone 1 $129.95 pickup
- 99¢ per pound
- Since 2007
- HIPAA BAA on request
Quick answer
New Hampshire Document Shredding handles Salem NH business shredding by Zone 1 pickup for $129.95, plus 99 cents a pound (or $20 per banker’s box at 10 boxes or more) and $34.90 in per-job fees, so 20 boxes from a Route 28 office cost $564.85. Paper is shredded at our office at 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA, and every job gets a Certificate of Destruction. Dealers that pull credit reports must burn, pulverize or shred them under the FTC Disposal Rule, 16 CFR Part 682. For Salem homes and every other option, see our main page on shredding in Salem.
Who uses Salem NH business shredding
Salem’s businesses line up along two roads. Route 28, which most people call Broadway, carries the car dealers, the retail plazas and a long run of professional offices. Route 97, Salem’s Main Street, crosses it at the Depot and runs east and west past more offices and small practices. Each kind of business makes a different kind of paper.
Auto dealers
Credit applications, consumer reports, copies of licenses and finance paperwork in every closed deal file. The FTC names dealers in its Disposal Rule guidance.
Retail stores
Employee files, background check reports, schedules and old vendor invoices. Back rooms fill up quietly until a lease renewal forces a cleanout.
Medical and dental
Intake forms, schedules, referrals and explanation of benefits letters, all with protected health information. HIPAA expects safeguards right through disposal.
Professional offices
Tax preparers, insurance agents and property managers on Main Street and Broadway, with client files that pass their retention date every year.
One rule from the town shapes all of this. Salem’s transfer station on Shannon Road is for residents only, and the town tells businesses to arrange private haulers for their waste. So business paper can’t ride along with someone’s household recycling, and it shouldn’t anyway. Anything with a customer’s name, account or credit history needs a real disposal plan.
We shred at one place, our office on Route 38 in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, about 15 miles from Salem. We have no office or drop box in New Hampshire and we don’t shred in your parking lot. A Salem business either books a Zone 1 pickup or sends someone down I-93 with the boxes.
The FACTA Disposal Rule for Salem auto dealers
The Disposal Rule came out of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act, and the FTC enforces it at 16 CFR Part 682. It applies to anyone who uses consumer reports for a business purpose. In its own guidance the FTC lists automobile dealers among the businesses it covers, along with landlords, employers, lenders and insurers.
Its core standard, at 16 CFR 682.3, is short. When you dispose of consumer information, you must take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access to it. The rule’s first example is a policy that requires burning, pulverizing or shredding papers so the information cannot practicably be read or reconstructed. Its third example is hiring a company in the business of record destruction, after due diligence, under a contract you monitor.
The rule leaves the method to you, but it expects a written policy and someone checking that it is followed. For a dealership, that usually means a locked bin or a locked room for expired deal files, a schedule for clearing it, and a certificate for every batch. The FTC suggests due diligence before you hire a destruction company, such as checking references and reviewing the company’s information security policies. We are happy to walk you through how our process works before you book.
Many dealers also fall under a second FTC rule. The Safeguards Rule, 16 CFR Part 314, defines a dealership that, as a usual part of its business, leases cars on a nonoperating basis for longer than 90 days as a financial institution for that leasing business. The FTC’s guidance on that rule says to securely dispose of customer information no later than two years after you last used it to serve the customer, unless you have a legitimate business need or legal requirement to keep it. Our page on the FACTA disposal rule goes deeper for New Hampshire dealers, landlords and employers.
What Salem NH business shredding costs in Zone 1
Salem is in our lowest pickup zone. The Zone 1 transportation fee is $129.95 per pickup, and we confirm the zone for your exact address when you book. The shredding is priced exactly as it is at our counter, under the same shredding rates every customer pays.
| Item | Price | When it applies |
|---|---|---|
| Shredding by weight | 99¢ per pound | Under 10 boxes, bags and loose paper |
| Small box | $15 per box | 10 or more boxes |
| Large (banker’s) box | $20 per box | 10 or more boxes |
| HIPAA filing fee | $14.95 per job | Every job. Covers the Certificate of Destruction paperwork |
| Environmental fee | $19.95 per job | Every job. Covers recycling the shred |
| Zone 1 transportation | $129.95 per pickup | Salem and the other border towns |
| Stairs or restricted access | Handling fee, quoted up front | Zone price assumes ground level or an elevator |
| Hard drives and media | Quoted per item | Drives, tapes, discs, USB sticks, phones |
The pickup bar always sits $129.95 above the drop-off bar. On five boxes that fee is most of the shredding cost. On forty boxes it adds about 16 percent to the bill and saves someone from loading a car several times. For a dealership or a practice, one booked pickup a year is usually the cleaner answer.
How a Zone 1 pickup works on Route 28 and Route 97
Every pickup is booked ahead. We don’t promise same-day service, so plan it around a slow day, a month-end close or a lease date. The driver loads your sealed boxes and brings them back to Tewksbury, where they are shredded after they arrive.
Access matters more than distance in Salem. A ground-floor unit in a Broadway plaza with parking at the door is a quick stop. A second-floor office on Main Street with no elevator takes longer, and the handling fee for stairs is quoted when you book. Tell us which door to use, too. Many plazas have a rear service entrance that saves walking boxes through a showroom or waiting room.
Name one person to meet the driver and sign for the hand-off. For a dealership that is often the finance manager or the office manager. Keep the booking confirmation with the certificate so your file shows the whole trip, and use our shredding pickup checklist the week before.
- Book it. Use the booking form or call (978) 636-0301. Give us the Salem address, the box count, and which entrance to use.
- We confirm Zone 1 and access. Salem is Zone 1 at $129.95. We confirm it for your address and quote any handling fee for stairs before the day.
- Box and seal. Staples, paper clips, binder clips, rubber bands and file folders can stay in. Pull binder hardware, hanging-folder frames and anything that isn’t paper.
- Bag the hardware. Old drives, phones, tapes and discs go in a separate bag. They are physically destroyed and quoted per item.
- Hand off and count. Agree the count with the driver. The boxes stay in locked handling from your door to our office.
- File the certificate. Your Certificate of Destruction comes with the job. Keep it with your disposal policy and the deal or patient log.
The full pickup process, including what we need to know about your building, is on our off-site shredding page. Our guide to the certificate of destruction shows what the certificate records.
Medical and dental offices on Main Street and Broadway
Salem’s practices produce paper every day: sign-in sheets, intake forms, referrals, lab requisitions and EOBs. HIPAA’s Privacy Rule requires appropriate safeguards for protected health information, including at disposal, under 45 CFR 164.530(c). The Security Rule asks for policies on the final disposal of electronic health information and the hardware it sits on, under 45 CFR 164.310(d)(2)(i).
For paper, shredding so the information cannot be read or reconstructed meets that duty. We sign a Business Associate Agreement on request for covered entities and business associates, and every job comes with a certificate for your compliance file. Our medical shredding service page covers the practice side in detail, and our page on HIPAA shredding requirements explains the rules section by section.
- Keep a locked console or bin at the front desk, so nothing waits in an open box
- Small monthly loads: send them down I-93 with a staff member, about 25 minutes each way
- A records-room purge: book a Zone 1 pickup and keep your staff at the front desk
- Old drives, phones and discs: bag them separately for a per-item quote
Some practices prefer to see their oldest charts destroyed. A witnessed session at our Tewksbury office costs $1.99 a pound with a $100 job minimum, plus the $34.90 per-job fees, and the certificate is signed in front of you.
Retail stores and professional offices
A store on Broadway rarely thinks of itself as a records business, but its back room says otherwise. HR folders, background check reports and old schedules carry names, birth dates and Social Security numbers. The FTC names employers among the businesses the Disposal Rule covers, so background check reports go in the shredder, not the dumpster behind the plaza.
| Business | Typical paper | Rule to know |
|---|---|---|
| Auto dealers | Credit applications, consumer reports, deal files | FTC Disposal Rule, 16 CFR Part 682. Safeguards Rule, 16 CFR Part 314, for leasing |
| Retail stores | HR files, background check reports, schedules | FTC Disposal Rule for consumer reports on employees |
| Medical and dental | Intake forms, charts, EOBs | HIPAA, 45 CFR 164.530(c) and 164.310(d)(2)(i) |
| Tax preparers | Client returns and worksheets | GLBA Safeguards Rule, 16 CFR Part 314 |
| Property managers | Rental applications, tenant credit reports | FTC Disposal Rule, which names landlords |
| Any employer | Payroll and employment tax records | IRS: keep at least 4 years after the tax is due or paid |
Computers need the same thought. New Hampshire’s breach notice law, RSA 359-C:20, applies to anyone doing business in the state who owns or licenses computerized data that includes personal information. A retired point-of-sale terminal or office PC still holds that data. We physically destroy drives and quote them per item on our hard drive destruction page.
Lease renewals and moves are when most Salem offices finally clear the back room. If that is your situation, our page on office cleanout shredding has a sorting plan that gets the job down to one pickup.
Pickup, drop-off or witnessed for a Salem business
Salem is the one New Hampshire town where the drop-off is genuinely close. That makes the choice more about staff time than distance. Here is how we would steer a Salem office manager.
| Your situation | Our pick | Estimated total |
|---|---|---|
| A few boxes a month, someone can drive | Drop-off in Tewksbury | About $183.40 for five boxes |
| A quarterly or annual purge of 10 to 20 boxes | Zone 1 pickup | $364.85 for 10, $564.85 for 20 |
| A lease end or move, 40 boxes or more | One Zone 1 pickup | $964.85 for 40 boxes |
| Files someone must see destroyed | Witnessed session | $1.99 per pound, $100 minimum, plus $34.90 |
| Drives, phones, tapes | Separate bag, any service | Quoted per item |
For staff who make the drive, our guide to the Salem NH to Tewksbury drop-off covers the route and the best time to leave. Neighboring businesses face the same math in Plaistow NH business shredding along Route 125, and in Pelham NH business shredding just to the west.
Our short version: for a few boxes, send someone down I-93 at lunch. For a dealership’s year of expired deal files, book the Zone 1 pickup and get a certificate for the whole batch.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Salem NH business shredding cost for 20 boxes?
Twenty banker’s boxes picked up from a Salem business cost $400 in shredding at $20 per box, $34.90 in per-job fees and $129.95 for Zone 1 transport, for $564.85. The price assumes ground-level or elevator access. Stairs or restricted access add a handling fee, which we quote when you book.
Does the FACTA Disposal Rule apply to car dealers in Salem?
Yes, if the dealership uses consumer reports, which most do for financing. The FTC lists automobile dealers among the businesses covered by the Disposal Rule, 16 CFR Part 682. When you dispose of consumer information, you must take reasonable measures, such as shredding so it cannot practicably be read or reconstructed.
Can a Salem dealer hire a shredding company to meet the Disposal Rule?
Yes. The rule’s examples include contracting with a company in the business of record destruction after due diligence, and monitoring that contract. The FTC suggests steps such as checking references and reviewing the company’s information security policies. Every job with us comes with a Certificate of Destruction for your file.
Which pickup zone is Salem NH in?
Salem is in Zone 1, our lowest pickup zone, at $129.95 per pickup. You also pay the normal shredding rate, 99 cents a pound or $20 per banker’s box at 10 or more, and the $34.90 per-job fees. We confirm the zone for your exact address when you book.
Can my business use the Salem transfer station for old files?
No. The Town of Salem says its transfer station on Shannon Road is for residents only and that businesses must arrange private haulers for their waste. Files with customer, patient or employee information also need secure destruction, not ordinary recycling. A Zone 1 pickup or a drop-off in Tewksbury covers that.
Do you shred on site at our Salem location?
We don’t. All shredding happens at our office at 1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA, about 15 miles from Salem. We collect your sealed boxes by appointment and shred them after they arrive. If someone needs to watch, book a witnessed session at our office for $1.99 a pound with a $100 minimum.
Will you sign a Business Associate Agreement for our practice?
Yes. We sign a Business Associate Agreement on request for HIPAA covered entities and business associates. Every job, pickup, drop-off or witnessed, also comes with a Certificate of Destruction covered by the $14.95 HIPAA filing fee. Many Salem practices send small loads down I-93 and book a pickup for bigger purges.
Do we need to remove staples and folders before pickup?
No. Staples, paper clips, binder clips, rubber bands and file folders can stay in. Please remove three-ring binder hardware, the metal frames from hanging folders, and anything that is not paper. Put drives, phones and discs in a separate bag. They are physically destroyed and quoted per item.
Sources
- Federal Trade Commission, Disposing of Consumer Report Information? Rule Tells How (checked November 2026)
- Federal Trade Commission, FTC Safeguards Rule: What Your Business Needs to Know (checked November 2026)
- Town of Salem NH, Transfer Station / Solid Waste (checked November 2026)
- Internal Revenue Service, How long should I keep records? (checked November 2026)
- New Hampshire RSA 359-C:20, Notification of Security Breach Required (checked November 2026)
Book a Zone 1 pickup for your Salem business
Tell us the address, the box count and which door to use. We confirm Zone 1 and any handling fee before the day, shred everything at our Tewksbury office, and send a Certificate of Destruction for your file.
Where we shred
1215 Main Street, Unit 115, Tewksbury, MA 01876. Route 38, near I-495. Free parking out front.
Monday to Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Witnessed sessions and pickups outside these hours by appointment.
- Pickup: Zone 1 for Salem, $129.95
- Drop-off: walk in, 99¢ per pound
- Witnessed: $1.99 per pound, $100 minimum
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.