Posted on 09/27/2006 2:12:08 PM PDT by TrebleRebel
This is the kind of mail you sometimes hear about that was lost since WWII.
Yes, it can wander around a bit before it ever gets canceled, particularly if it ends up in an empty piece of equipment.
Since at least one piece in the bunch was mailed at Boca Raton to an individual receiving mail out of the West Palm Beach MPC, and since we can actually "track" that piece from deposit through the system to another facility where it was redirected to a third facility for delivery, it really takes some faith in the FBI analysts to believe the other pieces weren't also mailed in the same place.
The victim at the New York Post says she had contact with such a letter on September 18.
Thanks for the invitation
but I think I'll pass it up this time.
I'll wait for the 50th anniversary party.
That ought to be a big one.
Basing a theory on something that is just one chance in a hundred million or more, and then saying it happened SEVEN times with seven different critical letters is just plain ridiculous. It's beyond belief.
Why not just say that aliens from outer space altered the minds of postal workers to make them forget to get the mail from the critical mailboxes for a month? I can't prove that is impossible, either. And, it's about as likely as the idea that the seven critical letters just HAPPENED to get delayed somewhere, five for a couple weeks, two for more than a month.
Since at least one piece in the bunch was mailed at Boca Raton
That's just more of the same -- a belief that cannot be proven to be total nonsense. There is absolutely NO reason to believe any anthrax letters were mailed in Boca Raton. But, it can't be proven to be impossible, so you are free to believe whatever you want to believe - as ridiculous as it may be.
The victim at the New York Post says she had contact with such a letter on September 18.
Yes, and that letter is one which was found. It is postmarked September 18 in the Trenton area, so we KNOW she was mistaken when she said she had contact with it on the 18th. But you can believe that bad memories are really the only source of facts, if that's what you want to believe.
ABC reported that there was bentonite in the anthrax letters. Does that make it true? The facts say it was total made-up nonsense.
Just last week, The Hartford Courant said that the anthrax mailed to the two senators was "drug-resistant". That is total nonsense. The reporter tells me it was added by his editor without his knowledge, and the reporter knows it's total nonsense. But the editor evidently doesn't think his mistake is worth correcting. So, does that make it true?
You have to look at ALL the facts, if you want to understand what's going on. You can't just look at the facts which you can twist to support some belief.
Ed
You seem to be desparately unaware of how few single-piece rate First-Class Mail letters of one ounce or less are actually sent each year from one individual to another.
The odds are very, very good that any such piece of mail is going to go astray.
I've been out of town for a week but thanks for the pings to all the anthrax articles. As you offered, I'd love to hear the details of your interview and theories via freepmail. Thanks!
another ping-for-later read
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