6 Cities To Train Mail Carriers To Dispense Anti-Terror Drugs -- USA TodayWASHINGTON — The Postal Service is ready to deliver lifesaving drugs to about a quarter of the residents of Minneapolis-St. Paul, the only metropolitan area in the nation where letter carriers have been trained to dispense medication after a large-scale terrorist attack involving biological weapons.
Six years after the government began exploring the idea of using postal workers as rapid-response medicine dispensers and eight months after President Obama ordered government agencies to develop a plan to do so, efforts are underway in six cities to train workers to deliver the drugs needed to counter anthrax or other potentially deadly agents, the White House says.
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My Comment: The U.S. Postal Service does not strike me as an organization that will respond quickly to a biological attack. But ....they do have the personnel and the infrastructure to quickly disperse medication and needed supplies. My only concern is that in the event of such an attack .... will they still be at the job?