With the suspected-anthrax deaths of two postal workers in Washington D-C, letter carriers and mail handlers in Iowa are wearing more protection. Radio No one’s donning face masks to deliver the mail in Iowa, not yet, but many letter carriers are slipping on rubber gloves as they each handle many thousands of pieces of mail destined for businesses and homes statewide. Postal service spokesman Richard Watkins says they’re NOT required to wear gloves, they’re just a precaution.
Watkins says the threat of contracting anthrax — or something else — by touching the mail is being taken very seriously.
Watkins says -quote- “the stakes have been raised” with the deaths of “two members of our family.”
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