[Tax Government]

The postal service can consider these cheap things to make mail-sorting centers less friendly to bioagents:

1. Put in UV lights, and run them at intervals throughout the day. Add UV reflective coatings on many surfaces so that light can be reflected into corners under and around machines.

2. Require new mail equipment to be designed to be illuminated fully inside and easily cleaned, reducing the number of places that organisms can hide from cleaning agents or light.

3. Cycle the humidity in the building to 100% a few times a day, so that spores will germinate and become vulnerable.

4. Put electrostatic air filters at many places in the facilities.

5. Add air-containment shrouds to equipment so that air surrounding the mail is captured and run across electrostatic filters.

[Tax Government]

The postal service should introduce a new class of hybrid email/physical mail. Email would be printed out at the recipient's local post office, and delivered as hard copy. Pricing should be such that businesses and individuals are incented to use it. I think this would go a LONG way toward eliminating first-class sender-printed hardcopy mail.

Allow and encourage postal customers to opt out of 2nd- and lower class mail. This would reduce the amount of paper being delivered.