WHAT:
United States Postal Service officials and Postal Inspectors will provide informative materials and advice to Spring Training baseball fans about how to avoid being victimized by scams during two games at the Peoria Sports Complex to mark National Consumer Protection Week.
Officials will distribute DVDs and brochures warning against identity theft and fraudulent schemes, providing consumers with valuable information about protecting their financial assets from these types of crimes, as well as ways to report suspected financial fraud.
WHO:
Postal Inspection Service Public Information Officer Patricia Armstrong, USPS Consumer Affairs Manager Steve Kern
WHEN:
11:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday, March 9, and Wednesday, March 10, 2010
WHERE:
Peoria Sports Complex, 16101 N. 83rd Ave., Peoria, AZ
BACKGROUND:
National Consumer Protection Week, March 7-13, is a national program led by the Federal Trade Commission to help customers become smarter consumers of products, materials and services, and improve their knowledge of how to combat fraud schemes.
There’s no age limit on fraud. This year, the Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service are working together to educate all consumers how they can protect themselves from scammers.
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Please Note: For broadcast quality video and audio, photo stills and other media resources, visit the USPS Newsroom at www.usps.com/news.
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 150 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars. With 36,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, the Postal Service relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. Named the Most Trusted Government Agency five consecutive years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $68 billion and delivers nearly half the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 26th in the 2008 Fortune 500.
