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...Just as things couldn't get much more bleak for the USPS, Postmaster General John Potter appeared before a Senate committee Tuesday to tell lawmakers his agency will require several billion dollars to recover from losses tied to the anthrax outbreak...
...York City, postal workers union members filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Postal Service, demanding the Morgan postal facility in midtown Manhattan be closed for thorough cleaning. Environmental tests revealed anthrax spores on four of the center?s sorting machines. While postal officials are insisting Manhattan mail delivery will continue on a normal schedule, as many as 30 percent of the central facility?s workers have been absent from work in recent days, a five-fold increase from usual rates. Postal workers in Florida have filed a similar suit, claiming authorities did not respond quickly enough to postal workers' risk...
...More closures on Capitol Hill? As New York and New Jersey officials struggle to deal with new anthrax cases, authorities in Washington D.C. have agreed to a plan to close down the Hart office building, where Senator Daschle?s office is located, in order to fumigate the entire structure with chlorine dioxide gas, a substance proven to kill anthrax bacteria. The treatment would keep the building off-limits for at least two weeks, but would preserve paperwork and computers. Testing continues at the Longworth office building; employees are expected to return sometime next week...
...anthrax investigation is moving slowly in large part because authorities are chasing multiple moving targets. The contaminated letters that we know of - sent to Tom Daschle, Tom Brokaw, American Media, etc. - each passed through a multitude of mail processing centers and post offices before landing in their target offices. The key now is tracing each letter's travels as precisely as possible - and identifying exactly who might have touched each letter, and even what other letters might have touched the contaminated mail...
...hasn't progress been made in the anthrax investigation...