'Anthrax building' reopens

Postal workers have begun moving back into Washington’s main mail centre, more than two years after anthrax-laced letters killed two workers.

About 120 administrative workers moved into the second-floor offices of the building. They are among the first of 2,100 workers expected to return to the Northeast Washington building by the end of January.

The Brentwood building had been closed since October 2001, after anthrax-tainted letters sent from Trenton, New Jersey, passed through the building en route to the offices of Senators Tom Daschle and Patrick Leahy.

They were among a series of letters that killed five people and made 17 others ill. No one has been charged in the case.