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How is this Anthrax scare going to affect mail?
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They are still wary of anything international, especially from the middle east for obvious reasons. If you live in D.C., I wouldnt even try to order foreign or domestic because of the new steps they are taking in the capital.
If you go to CNN.com you will see how they doing some funky shit to every piece of mail going into D.C. I believe.
If you go to CNN.com you will see how they doing some funky shit to every piece of mail going into D.C. I believe.
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The mail will be irradiated using machines ordinarily used to kill bacteria in food and will be returned to Washington for delivery, said Deputy Postmaster General John Nolan.
A Postal Service spokesman said the effort would soon be extended to Florida, New York and New Jersey -- all of which have had mail contaminated with anthrax.
The radiation technology has "never been used for this type of mail processing before," Nolan said.
"However, it's been used extensively in the food industry and other industries for some time, and scientists, technologists tell us that it is absolutely going to be able to do the job for us, to kill bacteria in and on envelopes. Among those bacteria would be anthrax.
"Most mail is not even remotely a problem," Nolan said. "Magazines, financial statements, bills are produced in very tightly controlled environments and are not really the target pieces that we've seen."
A Postal Service spokesman said the effort would soon be extended to Florida, New York and New Jersey -- all of which have had mail contaminated with anthrax.
The radiation technology has "never been used for this type of mail processing before," Nolan said.
"However, it's been used extensively in the food industry and other industries for some time, and scientists, technologists tell us that it is absolutely going to be able to do the job for us, to kill bacteria in and on envelopes. Among those bacteria would be anthrax.
"Most mail is not even remotely a problem," Nolan said. "Magazines, financial statements, bills are produced in very tightly controlled environments and are not really the target pieces that we've seen."
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Interesting.
I had 1 domestic and 1 international waiting. I got the domestic on time but the international took hella long. Maybe I just need a new source.
I had 1 domestic and 1 international waiting. I got the domestic on time but the international took hella long. Maybe I just need a new source.
Nah, its all luck right now with how quick mail is getting through.
But on the whole, there is not much of any delay that everyone is expecting.
I got mine from a country that you would think would be closely inspected also. Still got here earlier than I thought.
*If you got your stuff, and trust your source, stick with him, regardless of wether it took an extra week. A good source is hard to find, and you just might lose money experimenting with new ones.
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