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Officials Tour Decontaminated Brentwood Mail Facility
Washington officials and two members of Congress yesterday conducted a tour of the decontaminated Brentwood Road postal facility, which was tainted with anthrax during the 2001 anthrax attacks, according to the Associated Press (see GSN, June 23). The facility is set to be returned to the U.S. Postal Service Nov. 28, AP reported. It could then resume initial operations by mid-December and return to full operation by the beginning of next year. “Every cent has been well spent, and we’ve got to make people understand that it’s safe to come in here and buy stamps, get mail and, yes, even work here eight hours a day,” said Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.). “The building is safe as it can humanly be made, but we’d feel a whole lot safer if we caught the anthrax terrorist,” she said. Yesterday’s tour also included representatives from four postal unions that represent Brentwood employees, according to AP. While the Postal Service has given facility employees the right to transfer to other sites, union officials have said that many are willing to return to Brentwood. “My presence here today is a signal to the letter carriers that it’s OK to come back now,” National Association of Letter Carriers President Bill Young said (Derrill Holly, Associated Press/Fredericksburg (Va.) Free Lance-Star, Nov. 13).
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