That only raises another question, of how the anthrax mailer managed to get his or her envelopes sealed well enough that the fine powder didn’t get beaten out through the flap corners by ordinary mail handling equipment, and infect far more people than it actually did. I don’t remember seeing the marks of something like Scotch tape on the published images of the envelopes, do you?
“That only raises another question, of how the anthrax mailer managed to get his or her envelopes sealed well enough that the fine powder didn’t get beaten out through the flap corners by ordinary mail handling equipment, and infect far more people than it actually did. I don’t remember seeing the marks of something like Scotch tape on the published images of the envelopes, do you?”
I didn’t see the back of the envelopes but spores were released both in the mailbox and by passing through the mail handling machines. Early reports said the spores were so fine that they passed through the envelope themselves but I don’t know if that’s true. Interestingly, the people who died received mail from the box where the letters were mailed and in the Post office where they were processed. None of the targets were infected, likely because they were immediately given antibiotics.