All the anthrax envelopes had been wrapped end to end with standard package tape (like you'd use to wrap up a parcel).
It was at least 3 years before there was any news about this guy.
You can understand I keep my eyes peeled concerning employees in USPS, FBI and CIA when it comes to this case.
I’m not following you.
First, as for the news about Abdel-Sattar who worked at the Staten Island main branch, there was a Washington Post article, for example, in spring 2002 about how he was being investigated in connection with the letter that had been used to gain the two journalists access to kill Northern Alliance leader. He was in contact with the Vanguards of Conquest (EIJ) spokesman Al-Sirri, and Ayman or someone using his office computer had created a letter of introduction using the name of Al-Sirri’s London group. Abdel-Sattar was very high profile, giving interviews in the late 1990s to most major media outlets, to include a dramatic PBS interview. In the PBS interview, he explained that in the next attack, principles of cell security would be used — an operation might only involve 4 people — and so he wouldn’t necessarily know who was involved. But authorities definitely knew that a tree grew in Brooklyn. Sadat’s assassin’s brother, Mohammed Islambouli, was known to be in a cell with KSM planning the plane and other attacks. Being given safe haven in Qatar. See December 1998 PDB to Clinton. The August 2001 PDB to Bush basically was a rehash of that intel, which was based on what Ali Mohammed and Wadi al Hage, for example, were telling Fitzgerald.
But you do raise a factual issue of interest. The exact tape used. Are you saying it was a wide tape? Why doesn’t it show in the pictures? What do you think the purpose of the tape was? How wide was it? I guess there is a narrow tape and a wide tape for wrapping packages. Through the editor of Postal Mag I made inquiry of the Staten Island branch for someone who worked with Abdel-Sattar but got no takers. Perhaps you could find a co-worker who would share their recollection. I don’t see why you think it was a mistake for him to get a job. It’s not like it was the job that tipped the authorities off. Before working in the main branch, he delivered to nuclear facilities and no one paid attention. They began tapping his phone in late 1998.