Some recent news reports have overstated the involvement of the U.S. Postal Service with the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Lab. In February 2004, the Postal Service did enter into a non-binding memorandum of understanding with the Department of Energy to explore the possibility of the Postal Service assisting the Department of Energy in the development of a Science Complex in exchange for a parcel of land to build a new postal annex intended to relieve overcrowding at the existing downtown Los Alamos, NM mail processing facility.

We have decided not to go forward with this arrangement and we have notified the Department of Energy to that effect. Media reports about a final contractual agreement having been reached were incorrect.