You've got mail

COLUMBUS - The large, well-lit room with a shiny black floor is strewn from one end to the other with bins and boxes and shelves full or waiting to be filled with packages, magazines, newspapers and letters. There seems to be as many slots as in a Vegas casino.

Postal employee Ken Lisko stands in the middle of a sea of bins, glances at a package, and tosses it in one direction or another.

"Need some teeth?" he asks, shaking a box addressed to a dentist. The Post Office delivers much more than bills and Good Housekeeping. Chickens, peacocks, and even their eggs are sent via the U.S. Postal Service. There are exercise machines, kitchen wares and countless, nondescript parcels wrapped in brown paper, giving no clue as to their contents.