Five More Postal Processing Centers to Receive Anthrax Detection Equipment This Summer

Four U.S. Postal Service facilities in South Carolina and one in Indiana are scheduled to have anthrax detection equipment installed this summer, the Associated Press reported (see GSN, March 29).

Equipment is expected to be in stalled in Columbia, Charleston, Florence and Greenville, S.C., between July and August, according to AP (Associated Press/Myrtle Beach Online, May 24).

Meanwhile, the Kokomo postal processing center in Indiana is expected to receive the equipment in June, AP reported.

“This raises the comfort level, not only of those receiving mail, but of the employees,” said Kim Yates, a Postal Service spokeswoman.

Postal sites in Gary and Indianapolis have received the equipment, and a system is set to be installed in Muncie (Associated Press, May 22).

The United States plans to spend $400 million to install anthrax detectors at 114 U.S. mail facilities, according to AP (Associated Press, May 24).

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