X - No Roses

Pros:

• Compact, fits easily on a desk or shelf.
• Does CDs and DVDs which is probably why most choose this model.
• Pleasing modern look appearance .

Cons:

• Failed after 7 months of very light use.
• Basket is very messy to empty.
• Basket fills up quickly.

It's ironic that just as I was about to publish a review on the Staples Mailmate Shredder it decided to die in 9/10s of a second.

 

The Staples Mailmate shredder is a compact fancy looking shredder that supposedly shreds up to 10 sheets of paper at once, CDs, DVDs, credit cards and other such every day things.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A guiding slot is provided for CDsand DVDs.

The paper slot is narrow, meaning a sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper has to be folded in half to be shredded.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Summary: I purchased this shredder primarily to do CDs and DVDs. The fact it also handled paper and credit cards was a bonus that I thought would replace my older 'just paper' shredder.

It was only used a minimal amount over a 7 month period, mostly for paper junk mail type stuff, and only occasionally a DVD or so, one at a time.

Finally after inserting a single DVD one day, it shredded the DVD and quit - completely dead, never to go again.

This model has a list of problems as shown on some of these sites. I had hoped that was with earlier models of the Mailmate Shredder, but that turned out not to be the case. Even numerous reader reviews seem to relay the same message time and again.

In fairness though, a friend of mine has had one of these for some time and it has been used frequently and steadily without a problem. Too bad that seems to be a minority.

Fortunately it was returned without any difficulty.