# Anthrax buggering up the mail...
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 13, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167 "2001-10-13T00:51:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2001, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167/21 "2001-10-14T18:46:06Z")
D’oh!
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### Author:  [@Hanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hanna)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2001, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167/22 "2001-10-14T19:23:58Z")
Can’t the USPS halt mail delivery until all mail in the system can be checked? I know that the letters carrying anthrax were delivered a few weeks ago, so it might be too late for that now, but they halted airline service for a few days and the world kept spinning.
I am waiting for three packages that should have been here last week, and the one package I did receive last week took 9 days to get here, and it was smashed to hell. :mad:
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2001, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167/23 "2001-10-14T23:49:26Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Rilchiam \*
> \*\*Friend Down South posited this idea on Friday night: The most effective way to bring America down would be to infect money, so that people would be afraid to handle it. And I will leave you with that. \*\*
I think this was an X-Files episode.
Am I the only one who keeps reading this thread as **"Anthracite** buggering up the mail?" How about “ **Anthracite** buggering up the mall”?
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### Author:  [@SteverinoAlaReno](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteverinoAlaReno)
#### Post date: [October 15, 2001, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anthrax-buggering-up-the-mail/87167/24 "2001-10-15T15:14:33Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by Persephone \*
> \*\*They just found another one in Nevada.
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> Oh, and there’s a plane being held on the tarmac in London (IIRC), because a flight attendant found a suspicious substance on board.
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> This is getting really weird! :eek: \*\*
Yes, it was discovered Friday at the office of a Microsoft subsidiary here in Reno. Fortunately, there have been no infections stemming from this incident. But I am suffering from a sore shoulder as a result of telling my wife some inappropriate jokes:
I called Microsoft to get some anthrax. They said they were out of stock, but were expecting a case to come in shortly.
…and…
This is the first time that I can think of someone sending a virus _to_ Microsoft, instead of the other way around.
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