11.   An August report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that murder was the second-leading cause of death on the job for postal workers.

12.   And health officials in New Jersey said they were monitoring a postal worker there who may have contracted the disease.

13.   And the threat of striking postal workers has become a common refrain.

14.   And, along the way, handled by a succession of postal workers.

15.   Another employee at the Florida paper and two other Washington postal workers have been undergoing treatment for inhalation anthrax, the most serious type of the disease.

16.   Another postal worker from the Brentwood station was admitted to the hospital late Wednesday for possible anthrax and is in stable condition, the hospital said.

17.   Anthrax was discovered Tuesday in a White House mail facility as unnerved health officials confirmed that the bacteria killed two city postal workers earlier this week.

18.   As the number of presumed anthrax victims continued to rise, thousands of government and postal workers also underwent testing for the deadly germ.

19.   Assaulting or murdering a postal worker is a state and federal crime.

20.   At issue is whether a communications failure prevented the CDC from taking more aggressive steps to protect postal workers.