Anthrax Scare Ties up D.C. Mail

Anne Holland October 23rd, 2001

This afternoon my neighborhood post office, along with most other post offices in DC, along with some in nearby Virginia, closed early. They don’t know if they’ll be open tomorrow. Much of the mail received yesterday has not left the DC area either. This is apparently due to the anthrax problem.

I’m very lucky in that my company receives 99% of our orders online. We also ship most products out of other locations. Other DC-based organizations are not so lucky, especially those engaged in the fall fund-raising drives (there are a lot of not-for-profits in this area.)

While Internet bugs are annoying to say the least, so far to my knowledge they’ve never killed anybody. Now postal mail is more dangerous than email attachments. It’s a sad and weird world to say the least.

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