Sorry, got interrupted in my reply to you. To continue:
Based on the memories of AMA employees, the AMA letter was postmarked at a post office in south Florida. The recovered letters to New York and Washington were postmarked in New Jersey. Because the AMA letter was never recovered, there has been some speculation by authorities and the media that the AMA employees were mistaken, and that it also may have been mailed from New Jersey.
Later reports also ignored the fact that AMA employees recalled that the letter arrived before 9/11. Because there was approximately a three-week gap between when they thought the letter arrived and the gentleman who died first reported being sick, authorities and the media have claimed they were mistaken not only about the postmark, but the date the letter arrived. However, I remember reports that there was a postal facility in south Florida that tested positive for traces of anthrax back when all this first started. And roughly three weeks is well within the known range of incubation periods for anthrax infections.
In addition to the facts stated above, TWO 9/11 hijackers presented themselves with skin problems to health care professionals in south Florida in the weeks leading up to the attacks. One was treated for a black skin lesion in by a doctor who is certain it was an anthrax infection. Another went to a pharmacist asking for a skin cream that might help his hands, which were very inflamed.
And let's not forget the "coincidence" that Atta and another hijacker rented an apartment through the rental agent wife of the head of AMA. Atta and several of the other hijackers were living in south Florida and taking flying lessons within a couple of miles of the AMA building.
Granted, all of the above is "only" circumstantial. But how many "coincidences" does it take to weave a pretty convincing case? Last year, we heard a lot about the government's supposed failure to connect some vague "dots." Well, we don't have dots here, we've got boulders, and still the media and FBI don't seem to be connecting them.
And the Boca Raton post office was subsequently found to be contaminated with anthrax spores. No outlying mailboxes were found to be contaminated. Thus, suggesting that the offending piece was deposited in a mail slot at the post office itself.
Irrespective of the date of postmarks on any of the letters, none of them needed to pass through a canceling machine in order to get inserted into the postal mail processing system.
A letter carrier at the Staten Island post office was, in fact, arrested for involvement with the fellows who first tried to knock down the WTC with bombs.
Mail can "get lost" quite readily, particularly when it is single-piece rate First-Class letter mail! I provided detailed information concerning how letters mailed in Florida could get cancelled in New Jersey, and vice versa in numerous threads in FreeRepublic from November 2001 onward. If curious just search for "Anthrax".
I had proposed the letters were mailed on September 7 or 8, in Boca Raton, through the simple expedient of dropping them in letter mail collection boxes in the area. This family disappeared on 9/9. They had ample opportunity to mail the letters as proposed.