You know the drill; through rain, sleet, snow and hail. Every one associates that saying with the Post Office and while its on a building, it’s not an official motto and hasn’t been used in ads in decades.

Lots of people also think the Post Office operates on tax dollars, also not true. But what is true, is the Post Office has a forensics lab and when a suspicious device is found in the mail, a specialized team disassembles the device.

Check this out, the video shows  a reconstructed suspicious device containing nails found near a collection box in Arizona.

“When you have an explosive device, you don’t want to move it at all, you want to make sure that it is kept safe, then rendered safe, which means basically disassembled, ” explains Forensic Chemist Vincent Desiderio.

Once it is rendered safe the evidence comes here to the Postal Inspection Service’s Forensics Lab in Washington, DC.  Their mission: to find evidence that will assist investigators to track down a suspect or build a case. Read more