More news on the post office workers with anthrax in Trenton, NJ.

Anthrax isn't contagious, so how on earth could her boyfriend get it?...

Perhaps some spores landed on her clothes and they were passed on to him...hmmmmm...seems far-fetched though...I dunno

If this is true, then it's rather disturbing to think what the ramifications are.

Read the article again. The boyfriend is a mechanic at the post office in question. Presumably some spores remained in a sorting machine he worked on.

The boyfriend works at the P.O. She doesn't have it. She was letting their co-workers know that the mechanic had it so they could make their own decision on whether to get tested.

She identified her live-in companion, Rich Morgano -- the couple have four children together -- as the mechanic whose blood tested positive for anthrax.

Interesting little side-note on the state of contemporary American family life.

Someone will have to tell me sometime why the location of the mailbox was blared all over the news, and why the FBI didn't keep it quiet, stake the mailbox out, and catch the person if he tried it again.

Ok, Gottcha, I read it too quick....

Still interesting though...

It wasn't a public mailbox that they identified. The mail carrier in question doesn't collect any mail from public mailboxes, but only from private residences.

Actually, it has also been reported that she delivers far more mail than she collects. And she does not seem to be connected with the sending of the two anthrax letters that we know came from Trenton: she was off on Sept. 18th, when the letter to Brokaw was sent, and by Oct. 9th, when the letter to Daschle was sent, she had already developed the anthrax (cutaneous, on her shoulder.) So it seems to me that the chance is high that she got the anthrax from mail that she delivered, rather than from mail that she collected.

Ever see invasion of the body snatchers? Remember how whenever one of the snatched bodies saw one of the normals it let out a loud scream and suddenly all the other snatched bodies started swarming and screaming? That's how we have to be with arabs in our country. Spot em, follow em, know where they live, know where they're going. We have to study them like they have us. We need some public messages informing our people of that. How hard could it be to stake out our neighborhood mailboxes, retail shops, pharmacies, industrial supplies, air strips, small plane locations, etc, etc if we all got involved. We need some direction and we need it now. It may not be politically correct, but screw it. Get the job done. This is bull$hit and it may have just begun.

Who cares whether it was a public mailbox or a private one? It could have been staked out either way.

Acting Trenton Postmaster Joseph Sautello...
Interesting that they have the acting postmaster out there to comment but no official response from the USPS. I would think it is in their best interest to get everyone tested for anthrax. I can't understand why it was up to the mayor (good job, btw) to offer this.

To quote India Jones and his Egyptian ally in "Raiders fo the Lost Arc", "They're digging in the wrong place!"

I hope the FBI isn't developing tunnel vision on this particular route that may be a false trail. I bet the perps dropped it in a remote mail box near the main road out of town. I would be looking in or around Philly, as there are places in Philly that harbor muslim sympathizers where the cops don't patrol to closely.

Remember that cop-killer, Mumi character that the leftists were trying to make into a maryter? I bet there is a al-Queda cell operating in Philly using the sentiments of that case to gain local protection.

I can't confirm it now, but I think someone posted on 9-12 from Phila. Daily News that there were firemen who refused to ride on trucks with the American flag because it is a symbol of oppresion.

I agree that the matter is more complicated than people living on that mail route being the ones sending out the anthrax letters. I moved away from Princeton 10 years ago, but my recollection of that Ewing neighborhood is that it's largely Jewish.

I strongly suspect that anthrax letters were sent not from but to that neighborhood. As I said in a previous posting on this thread, I suspect the letter carrier got the anthrax from mail she was delivering, not mail she was collecting. But law enforcement has to work with the clues that it finds. Something was going on on this mail route.

By the way, this Newark Star-Ledger article, Another anthrax letter tied to Trenton (PROBABLE TRENTON ANTHRAX SOURCE IDENTIFIED!), seems to identify the mailbox on the mail carrier's route as being in the large Woodbrook House apartment house in Ewing. That apartment house has a Jewish Family and Children Services office, and it is right next to the Trenton-Mercer Airport.

By the way, this Newark Star-Ledger article, Another anthrax letter tied to Trenton (PROBABLE TRENTON ANTHRAX SOURCE IDENTIFIED!), seems to identify the mailbox on the mail carrier's route as being in the large Woodbrook House apartment house in Ewing. That apartment house has a Jewish Family and Children Services office, and it is right next to the Trenton-Mercer Airport.

What's also interesting about the building is that the mail carrier's sister lives there.

In Florida the wife of the man that died had rented an apartment to two of the terrorists. It's possible these two women knew the anthrax terrorists. These terrorists seem to enjoy giving the anthrax to people they know. Maybe they like to watch symptoms develop, who knows. I'm sure the suspects are long gone, but I've got a feeling they lived close to where they mailed the letters. They like to rub our faces in it.

THIS is what I was talking about, um-Jim.

There is very likely 10-20 people with Anthrax, The Disease that we are not being told about yet.

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Your recollections are correct. The Mercer County JCCC is 1/4 mile down the street from Woodbrook House. The Post Office Managment and to some extent the Union was too ready to continue as normal -- heads in the sand -- at the big processing facility in Hamilton. Thank G-d the grapevine -- that is the "We the People" aspect of civic duty -- brought about enough heat to get things. Truth is we don;t have the experience to deal with this and the Hamiliton-Robbinsville PO is THE place to get it. That means a rigorous and thorough scan and testing of the equipment and facility.

Unlike the instant shutdown of the US airspace mid-moring 9/11, the Post Office decided -- when it was face-to-face with something it had not yet dealt with, something clearly extremely risky -- to continue, to get that through-put.

Damn them! I pray the latent damage is not already much greater.

Essentially they are used to pooh-poohing and denigrating workplace complaints. It is part of the Union-Management ever at-odds relationship.

The two Firemen who refused to ride because of American Flags on their firetrucks were African Americans from the Miami Dade, FL, Fire Department. They said the US Flag was a sign of "repression" to blacks like them. I saw an update a few days ago that stated they have been "suspended" pending an investigation. The Miami Dade Fire Department sent a sizeable contingent to WTC ground zero to help. The Department was deluged by emails and snail mail from all over the country concerning those two knuckleheads who didn't want to work. Hopefully people will realize that it's only a couple of bad apples from a great department overall.

Officials weren't clear. It wasn't an "individual" mailbox, it was a mailbox sorting bin.