Arizona Postal Center Receives Anthrax Detector

The mail processing and distribution center in Phoenix, Ariz., has become the 35th such U.S. Postal Service facility to receive an anthrax detection system, the Associated Press reported Saturday (see GSN, Oct. 6).

Letters and packages beginning next week will be placed on a conveyer belt leading to a testing compartment, where the system will sample the air around each parcel, AP reported.

The system is set to be placed in 283 U.S. mail-sorting sites by November 2005 (Associated Press/KVOA.com, Oct. 16).

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