Indeed, a 2009 review by the department's inspector general found rampant cases of mishandled mail, including documents being improperly put in shred bins at 40 of the department's 57 regional offices.
Best of all, they'd have shredded Osama bin Laden, long before he'd even thought about turning his bearded crazies against America.
If you're feeling nervous about your abilities to replicate these, remember that your creation will spark joy for about 30 seconds before being shredded and binned, so just get on with it.
He kneeled down and swept the papers into his chest, carrying them over to the garbage bin, shredding them to pieces with his bare hands, dumping them.
In Dallas, Ken Goldberg, who runs the DFW Gun Range, says he has noticed a softening of the pain over time: there has been a decided drop in his customers' once-raging demand for Osama bin Laden paper targets to shred with gunfire.
Scratch them and smash the cases and shred the sleeves and throw them in the bin with all the dirty nappies and the soiled underwear and the dressings full of blood and pus.
If you want to speed up the pace of your compost cycle, make sure to shred your materials before adding them to the bin.
Richard Hurley of Cifas, the fraud prevention service, says it's a sensible precaution to shred all documents with personal details on them before binning.
Some UK councils do not accept shredded paper in recycling waste bins so if you do wish to securely dispose of sensitive information, shred then burn.
I have a bin where I put junk mail and any files I want shredded and my son and I shred it when it gets full.
