But I have seen some extreme coincidences in the news business before. Like that airplane that crashed in the very neighborhood of some of the firemen who were victims of the WTC collapse, with two victims being on the airplane who had actually survived the WTC disaster. Strange coincidences do occur, and sometimes they occur in groups of several, as if someone is playing around with our “fate”. Some investigators call this “synchronicity”. We need to be careful to try to separate the coincidences from conspiracies, and sometimes there can be two or three similar conspiracies going on, involving different groups of people who don’t even know each other. I just don’t think the Arab terrorists would have been polite enough to warn the people those DC and NY letters were sent too. A few more letters with no warning inside could have killed many more people.
If their intention were to kill people, they blew it for the reasons you stated. If their intention were to create terror, they sent it to the right people with much success.