Regarding this: “Keep in mind that you can collect your mail from your mailbox with disposable exam gloves and then put both the gloves and the mail in your microwave oven for 90 seconds to decontaminate them.”
In the last two weeks a group of our local letter carriers, who come in contact with everyone and hence every germ in the community, inquired of their Union regional leadership and of the USPS management at their District-level what would be the protocol if we experience some kind of Ebola pandemic?
In both cases they were told, “It’s not coming here; stop being a conspiracy theorist; stop the fear-mongering.” (Basically, “Shut up and get back to work.”) – P.L.