Statement by Azeezaly Jaffer,Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, U.S. Postal Service - “Some recent news reports have overstated the involvement of the U.S. Postal Service with the Department of Energy’s Los Alamos National Lab. We have decided not to go forward with this arrangement .”  Press Release

Nuke Watch: Postal Service Funding Nuke Labs -”$2.1 billion dollars a year ain’t enough for the brains in charge of Los Alamos National Lab, apparently. So the world’s most important nuclear research center has turned to the U.S. Postal Service , of all places, to fund its new, 400,000 square foot “Science Complex. Funds for the new Science Center weren’t anywhere to be found in the Energy Department’s publicly-available budgets. Nuke Watch had to file a Freedom of Information Act request to find out that the Energy Department was digging into the U.S. Postal Service’s pockets for two new buildings (one classified, the other not) and a parking lot.” “As a justification,” Nuke Watch notes, the department “cited a vaguely worded federal law that authorizes the USPS to furnish property and services to executive branch agencies and vice versa.” Nuke Watch: Victory! USPS Backs Out|  Los Alamos Goes Postal | Nuclear Watch: Off-Budget Nuclear Weapons Lab Financing Scheme (PDF)