Most of the mail moving through the Navy mail station was processed by the Postal Service's V Street facility, which handles government mail, and it was closed, Mr Jaffer said.
The more extensive tests were conducted after an air filter at the Navy mail station in the capital tested positive for the deadly material, a discovery on Thursday that led the authorities to shut down 11 other postal stations immediately.
The new Linea 16 by Royal Consumer Information Products rings up at the cash register at $99.99, and in addition to standard organizer functions, it incorporates a 56-kilobits-per-second modem and an e-mail program to make the Linea 16 a pocket mail station as well.
A popular lunch site for well-dressed parliamentarians is L'Archeologia (Via Appia Antica 139; 39-06-788-0494; www.larcheologia.it), a seafood restaurant housed in a 17th-century mail station that serves classic dishes like fish stew (13 euros) and homemade gnocchi with calamari and cherry tomatoes (12 euros).
In the relentless move to simplify technology and make it more accessible, a waveof more familiar Internet devices followed, startingwith WebTV, which turned your television into a PCscreen, and including cellular phones and dedicated e-mail stations that you plug into a phone line.
Tech-savvy people sometimes reconfigure old computers for use as file servers or e-mail stations.
Built purely for Internet use, the New Internet Computer, or NIC, is more than a bare-bones e-mail station, even though it doesn't have its own hard drive.
Like other mail sorting stations for the federal government around Washington that have tested positive for anthrax, the Justice Department's facilities receive mail from the Postal Service's Brentwood center, where several postal workers were exposed to anthrax, including the two who died.
It could be argued that The Hawthorns station is in West Bromwich but according to the Royal Mail the station is in Smethwick".
