What:
National Consumer Protection Event

Who:
The Greater Boston Postal District; Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office; United States Postal Inspection Service; Cambridge Post Office; Cambridge Postmaster Katherine E. Lydon; Laura Nichols and Corey Pilz of the Cambridge Consumer Council

When:
Friday, March 11, 2011
11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.

Where:
United States Postal Service
Harvard Square Post Office
125 Mount Auburn St..
Cambridge, MA 02138-9998

Background:
This is one of the many Consumer Protection Information Sharing Events scheduled throughout Massachusetts during National Consumer Protection Week: “Your Information Destination”.

As a service to consumers, the Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service are working in partnership with the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office. The Attorney General’s office has worked with a network of Local Consumer Programs (LCPs).  These non-profit programs handle many consumer complaints in their own regions in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, where their local knowledge and community involvement enable them to provide effective assistance to consumers. This allows the Attorney General’s Office to focus on statewide patterns of deceptive and unfair trade practices and on more complex complaints.  The Postal Service and the Postal Inspection Service are working with the Local Consumer Programs to sponsor these types of information sharing events.

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