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What: |
BROCKTON COMMUNITY SHRED DAY where the public can drop by and safely discard all personal, confidential documents — free. This event is held in conjunction with National Consumer Protection Week, March 4–10. Government agencies and nonprofit groups created ncpw.gov; go there to find consumer tips and free materials. Avoid scams and fraud in the marketplace by being an informed consumer. |
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Who: |
• Representative from the Office of Mayor Linda M. Balzotti |
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When: |
March 5, 2012 1 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. |
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Where: |
Mary Cruise Kennedy Senior Center, 10 Father Kenney Way, Brockton MA |
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Background: |
The Brockton Community Shred Day event, part of National Consumer Protection Week, is free, and open to the public. Consumer Protection experts will be available to answer your questions. You can bring up to three boxes of confidential documents to be shredded and disposed of properly. Representatives from Doc Shredding Corporation will help accept your documents – documents are immediately placed in a secured, locked container, then destroyed at the shred company’s secured site. In addition to your own information, please give some thought to the seniors in your life that may need assistance disposing of personal and financial documents. |
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A list of processing facilities studied, FAQs, mail processing b-roll, and additional information can be found at usps.com/ourfuturenetwork.
A self-supporting government enterprise, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation, 151 million residences, businesses and Post Office Boxes. The Postal Service receives no tax dollars for operating expenses, and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to fund its operations. With nearly 32,000 retail locations and the most frequently visited website in the federal government, usps.com, the Postal Service has annual revenue of more than $65 billion and delivers nearly 40 percent of the world’s mail. If it were a private sector company, the U.S. Postal Service would rank 35th in the 2011 Fortune 500. In 2011, the U.S. Postal Service was ranked number one in overall service performance, out of the top 20 wealthiest nations in the world, Oxford Strategic Consulting. Black Enterprise and Hispanic Business magazines ranked the Postal Service as a leader in workforce diversity. The Postal Service has been named the Most Trusted Government Agency for six years and the sixth Most Trusted Business in the nation by the Ponemon Institute.
