Agent Accidentally Sparks Anthrax Scare
A Louisiana insurance agent thought he had a clever marketing idea sending out Tylenol tablets to clients, offering to solve their "insurance headaches," but the U.S. Postal Service turned his scheme into a crushing experience that sparked an anthrax scare.
"Before the mailing went out, everybody Id talked to said it was a really wonderful idea. They loved the letters, it just so happened that the Tylenol pills got crushed [in the mail] and it went bad from there," Scott Welch, owner of the Welch Insurance Agency in Bossier City, La., told National Underwriter.
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