In a fight against terrorism, a team of 50 postal inspectors will be monitoring letters and packages bound for Olympic venues during the 2002 Salt Lake Games.
Mail headed for the Olympic media centre, athletes’ village and other Olympic venues will be checked by x-ray for bombs, according to Craig Glende, a U.S. Postal Service inspector assigned to the Games. And irradiation gear that sanitizes the mail could be used for Olympic-bound parcels.
The irradiation equipment would kill anthrax spores, but Glende said he wants to keep the anthrax scare in perspective.
Salt Lake business owners met with Glende for some mail-handling advice.
Salt Lake City Police Chief Rick Dinse told business leaders that he expects his officers to be responding to numerous reports of suspicious packages and that virtually all of them will be false alarms.
