New York - Upstate Mail Lost in Highway Collapse

New York - More than 30,000 pieces of mail sent from upstate New York to northeast destinations had to be destroyed after being damaged beyond recovery by the flood waters that swamped the Southern Tier last month.
The mail was on one of the two trucks that fell into a 150-foot wide chasm cut across Interstate 88 by the rushing waters. The drivers of both trucks were killed.

Postal officials were able to recover the mail on the truck, but only after it sat in the flood waters for four days. The postal service hired a private contractor to help sort and save the mail, but they had little success.