[TheOtherOne]

Thanks for posting that photo, here is another

and WHY is that hand not wearing a GLOVE?

An enlarged copy of an envelope addressed to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., that contained anthrax, is shown during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington Saturday, Nov. 17, 2001. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

[Fred25]

Ok, HA! Here’s a handwriting sample from TAUNTON FORGE SCHOOL, Medford Township, New Jersey. They are taught to make “1s” just like the Anthrax guy.

SAMPLE OF NEW JERSEY 2ND GRADE HANDWRITING

[Fred25]

and WHY is that hand not wearing a GLOVE?

The hand is not wearing a glove because it is holding a photograph of the letter, not the letter itself.

[Shooter 2.5]

"and WHY is that hand not wearing a GLOVE?"

The same reason we aren't, as we look at the picture of the envelope.

[aristeides]

I see that even the return address on the Leahy letter envelope, even though it's the same as that on the Daschle letter envelope, was separately written. Look at the final line, that with Franklin Park and the zip code. On the Leahy letter, it slopes much more downwards.

Of course, the address to the senator had to be separately written, because Leahy and Daschle have different addresses. It will be interesting to see whether the letters are identical (as the Brokaw and NY Post letters are), so that they are presumably the result of mechanical copying with a xerox machine or the like.