My company uses straps almost exclusively. You have to get good ones. Don't like the cheap 2" straps, but they work for little ****. We get the good straps from Alamo Iron Works usually. They're thick 2" straps. Some are 5 years old and still going, used almost daily. The best way to ruin one is to run it over a corner, it will cut fast. Put a little peice of cardboard or such under it. When we use binders they're the ones like ugly posted.