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...caution Hastert and Gephardt displayed was vindicated somewhat when the environmental sweep turned up traces of anthrax in a House mailroom and, tragically so, when two District of Columbia postal workers died, perhaps from handling the Daschle letter, or other letters posted to members of Congress. Though six congressional office buildings remained closed for anthrax testing, the Senate went back into session on Tuesday with House members hard on their heels...
Since two of the Florida victims worked in American Media's mailroom, postal workers who sorted and delivered the company's mail have also been tested, and Postal Service employees are demanding blanket testing for everyone in the Boca Raton-area post offices. Mail clerks in half a dozen other cities with anthrax scares were also tested, and media outlets--including TIME--temporarily shut down mailrooms while they scrambled to beef up security. The Postal Service has issued new guidelines on how to do that (examples: don't open any mail on which the postmark and return address...
Living under the threat of such attacks will require both patience and prudence. The Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS) is wise to follow the recommendations of the U.S. Postal Service in weeding out suspicious packages and in making accommodations for its employees, such as offering gloves and other means of protection against biological contamination. However, it is also wise not to redirect University mail elsewhere. Doing so would only encourage the hysteria that has already sprouted around mail services. Although caution certainly seems prudent during this current national crisis, Harvard has done well to resist the temptation to take this...
...been much new out of Afghanistan (still waiting for bin Laden to answer those CNN questions). But remember, unless you're a network anchor, a U.S. senator who gets on television a lot, an author who's written a lot about bioterrorism and been on Oprah, or a postal worker who handles suspicious letters without wearing gloves, the odds are very, very small that you may have even come into contact with those virulent spores...
...more than 50 mailrooms on campus. While all mail to the University comes directly from the Central Square Post Office, not all of it is sorted at a single location. Some mail, like that sent to the undergraduate Houses, is mailed directly to its final destination by the Postal Service. Other mail, however, is picked up by Harvard University Mail Services (HUMS) and distributed to the various mailrooms on campus...