1.   Hazmail, a newly formed venture in Suffield, Conn., promises not just to sanitize mail by irradiating it but also to open it for customers.

2.   On Wednesday, the Postal Service began testing equipment to kill anthrax spores and sanitize mail.

3.   Paper tested by his company was not damaged, Williams said, but he added that the crash effort to sanitize so much mail could lead to variable results.

4.   Postal officials have even retrieved and sanitized mail that was sitting in boxes when the floodwaters rose.

5.   Potter said the Postal Service was developing ways to sanitize the mail.

6.   Russ Decker, head of the Allen County Emergency Management Agency, said the mail will be sanitized with radiation.

7.   The far slower gas-based systems, most of which use ethylene oxide, take a day or more to sanitize mail.

8.   The money is going to treat workers, clean up facilities, and buy and operate electron-beam equipment to sanitize the mail, he said.

9.   The Postal Service will increase security at its facilities and introduce equipment that uses ultraviolet light to sanitize mail at selected locations, Postmaster General John Potter said.

10.   The solution will be high-tech machines that sanitize the mail, he said.