Anybody who goes through US Immigration regularly will recognize where Atta learned to write his numerals.
Same person NO DOUBT. Both mailed from Trenton NJ...armpit of NYC.
A Yankee fan, no doubt...fiends, all of them...
I dont' agree. I sometimes make my ones like that because I make my I's without the serifs (bars at the top and bottom) and I need to distinguish between the two. Also, the handwriting looks to me like someone trying to disguise their normal handwriting. It is too big, which to me indicates a lack of education.
A European one (actually, in my experience mostly Germans do it) look more like an un-crossed cursive "t".
To be honest, I make my ones like that for "formal" numbers -- something I picked up after taking technical drawing in college, and it carried through on my homework, and then to other things. It's habit now -- I never even think about it.
It actually suggests that the person who wrote these had some sort of technical education -- the reason I ended up making "formal" numbers was that during mathematical derivations, my 1s looked like ls and so on, which caused all sorts of difficulties. It was necessary to make them obviously different.
And if this is "home-grown" anthrax, you'd expect the perpetrator to have a technical background.
As for the slanting address -- who wants to bet the guy was writing with his opposite hand?
NJ = a.k.a. toxic wasteland...whadda expect
Where's the Toxic Avenger when you need him????
Actually, Trenton is more the armpit of Philadelphia.
"of NYC" adds nothing to your post.
Anybody who goes through US Immigration regularly will recognize where Atta learned to write his numerals.