31.  It was not immediately clear how the postal employee contracted anthrax.

32.  Jim Bittenbender, a mail carrier who works out of West Trenton, said some residents had asked postal employees to open their mail for them.

33.  Monday, several postal employees were mildly concerned about the dangers of handling mail.

34.  Most of the hoaxes are investigated, but several postal employees acknowledged Saturday, not extensively.

35.  Nonetheless, postal officials at the scene said, the false alarm demonstrated how fears of terrorist activity have rattled the nerves of postal employees.

36.  On Saturday, some postal employees said they felt uncomfortable about handling mail without some added protection.

37.  Officials found a way to do that in Washington this week, after two postal employees died.

38.  Older women who lead otherwise quiet lives are packing mail into Ziploc bags and heading over to the post office, where they beseech postal employees to inspect it.

39.  One time, postal employees found a pair of wedding bands on the floor, he said.

40.  Outside of the other postal employee and the media workers and baby infected in New York, two employees of a media company in Florida were infected.