1.   But U.S. Postal Service officials in Washington said Thursday that some Washington postal stations with isolated areas of anthrax contamination had been cleaned in hours.

2.   Imagine reducing one vast government bureaucracy to something on the order of a postal processing station.

3.   It may have been drawn that way after a former postal worker killed four people in the storefront postal station in Watchung Plaza.

4.   Louis Holley lived in Tempe with a fiancee who is employed at another postal station and did not vanish after the robbery.

5.   Monday, union workers protested in several cities, blocking traffic in one New Brunswick town and briefly occupying a neighborhood postal station in Toronto.

6.   Nolan, who appeared at a news briefing with Tom Ridge, the director of Homeland Security, said tests were continuing at postal stations throughout the Washington area.

7.   Not all of these people necessarily worked at the Brentwood postal station, he said.

8.   One area, known as the Red Room, apparently is used as an interim bank for money orders, gold shipments and cash taken in at postal stations.

9.   Postal stations provide passport services.

10.   Six employees in the postal station were given antibiotics as a precaution, and all those renting mailboxes at the facility were being contacted.