Postal history

Before email and messaging, we had regular mail and envelopes, which candidates for the national or European Parliament would send off to voters, only so they could form huge piles in the entrances to our apartment buildings.

According to information, the envelope was found inside the building

The 11 suspicious envelopes found at a Piraeus courthouse complex on Thursday that prompted a mobilization of the police and fire brigade were to be examined Friday by state laboratories.

A preliminary examination by bomb disposal experts on Thursday showed that the envelopes did not contain explosives.

One of the envelopes reportedly contained a powdery substance.

Bomb disposal experts said on Thursday that 11 suspicious envelopes sent to the Piraeus courthouse complex did not contain explosives.

The envelopes - 10 of which were sealed - caused concern among court staff because one of them contained a "suspicious" powder.

The Civil Protection Authority said on Friday that the suspicious envelopes sent to universities around the country this week did not contain any toxic substances, only an industrial adhesive identified in the first letter.

Samples from the letters were analyzed by the General Chemical State Laboratory in Athens.

Police were on alert Thursday after 11 university campuses around the country received a total 12 envelopes containing a white substance that experts say is used in the production of industrial adhesives.

The Civil Protection Agency also warned post offices and universities against opening any package deemed suspicious.

Envelopes mailed from India to a dozen Greek universities prompted an anti-terrorism investigation on Thursday after tests found an industrial irritant that triggered an allergic reaction in members of staff.

Greek Police (ELAS) was on high alert on Thursday after four more suspicious envelopes turned up in Corfu, Volos, Crete and the polytechnical school campus in the district of Zografou, in Athens.

All parcels were addressed to local universities and appeared to have been sent from India.

Officials at the main post office in Faliro, southern Athens, intercepted an envelope containing three bullets addressed to the general secretary of public revenue, Giorgos Pitsilis, authorities said on Tuesday.

The envelope, which did not carry the sender's name or address, was discovered at 2.30 p.m. at the sorting office.

The Greek Pentagon is on alert after a suspicious envelope was sent to the building of the Greek National Defence. The envelope was deemed suspicious during the X-ray screening procedure at the Pentagon main gates. A specialised team from the Greek police was called in after a military handled the envelope following the screening.