New technology is now being used to protect your mail from a bio-terror attack. The war on terror has arrived at your neighborhood post office. Ray Jacobs from the U.S. Postal service said “we never envisioned that as a postal service we would have to become experts in bio-terror detection systems.” But that is what postal officials have been researching for the past four years, after anthrax-tainted letters claimed the lives of five people in the Washington DC metro area. Postal service officials say the detection system constantly samples the air, and tests letters for the presence of anthrax spores, as the mail runs through a cancellation machine. Full Story
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