ST. PETERSBURG, FL — After a postal delivery vehicle caught fire in St. Petersburg earlier this month, a letter was mistakenly sent to some residents about the mail being exposed to biohazardous material, a United States Post Office representative said..
When the mail vehicle caught fire on Nov. 15, the mail carrier was uninjured, Lecia Hall, a USPS Strategic Communications Specialist, told Patch.
Some mail and packages were determined to be undeliverable and “not salvageable,” she said.
Hall said that the fire happened at 2110 17th Avenue E, though St. Petersburg police told Patch that no such address exists in the city.
Though some customers along the route received a letter that biohazardous material was involved in the crash, this “note was sent in error and should be disregarded,” Hall said.
