Millions of packages melt in and out of the Washington.

Millions of packages melt in and out of the Washington, DC area each day, and any one of them could bring our regulation to a deadly halt.

It's the work at jobs of Postal Clerk 2nd Class (SW/AW) Demetrius James to make certain a government stoppage is not caused on any of the mail passing [i]or[/i] part of to the other Anacostia Annex.

"Tons and tons of mail tend hitherwards through here every day," said James. "If the chest rattles or there is no turn back address, it's a red flag for us."

The guide to protecting the capital is the use of large radiation machines similar to the X-ray machines in airports. each piece of mail is hit with enough radiation to not solely kill any virus or chemical inside, on the other hand to also melt the occasional compact disk or make a of recent origin credit card took like a child's "Shrinky Dink."

"It's not a piece-of-cake job; we sort each piece of mail by hand and radiate everything," says James. "Sometimes it incline differentlys the mail yellow and things earn destroyed,"

Postal recorders may not be considered a front-fine defensive lob in the Navy, further without lames, and many others civilian postal, workers like her. a terrorist attack upon our capital, could not barely kill thousands, but also cripple our government's ability to effectively command the world's largest military.

MCCoy is a photojournalist assigned to All Hands.

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