As the video points out: USPS and the Department of Health and Human Services has asked Congress for $5 million to fund the bio-terror program an additional 3 years. Without it they cannot expand to other cities or maintain personnel already trained to respond in the event of a bio terror attack. A Government shutdown […]
ALEXANDRIA, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–In the weeks and months following the September 11 attacks, rural letter carriers nationwide stepped forward to volunteer for a program called the National Postal Model (formerly part of the Cities Readiness Initiative), which utilizes the U.S. Postal Service’s one-of-a-kind delivery infrastructure to respond to potential bioterrorism attacks. Unfortunately, this program’s funding is […]
The National Postal Model — a federal program sponsored by USPS and the Department of Health and Human Services — helps prepare major cities in the U.S. to respond to large-scale public health emergencies such as bioterrorism attacks. The plan is a blueprint for distributing oral antibiotics to the public using letter carriers to speed […]