POST OFFICE BOMB SCARE CAUSED BY BOXED PILLOW.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer An oddly wrapped pillow caused a four-hour evacuation of the Agoura Hills post office early Monday. About 6:40 a.m., a customer at the post office on Clareton Drive discovered a suspicious-looking package on top of a pay phone just outside the post office lobby, said Postmaster postmaster - The electronic mail contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET. Often, but not always, the same as the admin. The Internet standard for electronic mail (RFC 822) requires each machine to have a "postmaster" address; usually it is Joel Smith
The package was shoe box-size and wrapped with black electrical tape Electrical tape is a type of pressure-sensitive tape used to insulate electrical wires and other material that conduct electricity. It can be made of many plastics, but vinyl is most popular; it stretches better, giving a more effective and longer lasting insulation. , Smith said. ``It had no postage, no address,'' he said. The customer alerted a sheriff's deputy and the post office was evacuated, Smith said. Although the front desk is not open at that hour, employees working in the back were sent to other postal stations to continue their work, he said. The bomb squad used a robot to retrieve the package and place it into a pit made of sandbags sandbags small sacks containing sand used to support an anesthetized animal in dorsal recumbency and prevent it from rolling sideways during anesthesia or surgery. , said Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County sheriff's Sgt. Jon Jones Jon Jones is a British television director and screenwriter whose works include the ITV drama series Cold Feet, the Channel 4 drama A Very Social Secretary and the 2007 ITV adaptation of Northanger Abbey. . Deputies used a charge to explode the package, ``and they had foam pillow all over the street,'' Jones said. The package contained a pillow wrapped inside a towel. Investigators do not know whether it was left as a prank, but ``it wasn't there to be mailed,'' Jones said. Normal postal operations resumed at 10:30 and mail delivery was not expected to be affected by the incident, Smith said. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1-2--Color) (Photo 2 ran in Conejo Edition only) A Los Angeles County sheriff's bomb squad robot approaches the Agoura Hills post office, where a mysterious package was discovered Monday, left. Above, evacuated postal workers await word on the potential threat, which turned out to be a pillow wrapped in a towel and bound in electrical tape. David Sprague/Daily News |
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