Mail Carriers Will Deliver Drugs In Anthrax Attack

If you’ve ever been to any post office in NYC and have seen the worker’s slow moving ways in person, this certainly doesn’t bring any comfort: “Government mail carriers will deliver emergency supplies of antibiotics to people in U.S. cities after an anthrax attack, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials said on Wednesday.” |Reuters|

Going Postal At the Metropolitan Post Office


The one penny increase on all first class stamps ain’t the problem with the United States Postal Service, it’s the ridiculously long lines in the city’s post offices. Although there are many slow moving ones across the city, the Metropolitan Post Office at 47 Debevoise Street (between Humboldt and Graham) is one of the worst. Located on what basically amounts to the Williamsburg-Bushwick border, the shoddy facility houses automated stamp machines that are often busted, tables with no supplies, and computers that malfunction often. That, coupled with thoroughly lethargic postal workers, makes for one of the worst mail related experiences ever.

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