Trenton Processing and Distribution Center (PD&C)

Trenton Processing and Distribution Center (PD&C) (Google Maps)
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One of the postal facilities closed due to the 2001 Anthrax mailings.

From www.usps.com:

Address: 680 State Highway #130
Number of employees: 697
Jobs performed: supervisors/managers, distribution clerks, mail handlers, technical employees, vehicle operators, maintenance workers
Size of the facility: 5.8 million cubic feet (In comparison, the Daschle suite in the Hart Senate Office Building was only 100,000 ft³ and the Curseen-Morris P&DC in Washington is 14.2 million ft³.)
Number of loading docks: 65
Number of mail delivery trucks based at Trenton: 100
Number of mail pieces processed each day: 4 million
Number of mail processing machines: 29
Number of local post offices that receive mail from Trenton P&DC: 51
Number of contaminated letters that are known to have passed through the Trenton facility: 4 - those meant for Senators Daschle and Leahy in Washington, and for the New York Post and NBC News Anchor Tom Brokaw in New York.
Date the facility closed after the discovery that the letters were processed there: October 18, 2001.

Number of employees who contracted either the skin or inhalation forms of anthrax: 3 mail processors at the plant, plus a letter carrier in West Trenton.
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