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Exercise Saturday will test the Postal Service and the region's response plans to a biohazard event.

The U.S. Postal Service plans to conduct an emergency preparedness exercise in Melville this week.

The exercise planned for Saturday will test the Postal Service and the region's response plans to a biohazard event.The Postal Service says the "full-scale" exercise will include employee evacuations from the Mid Island Mail Processing & Distribution Center.

The exercise is scheduled to begin Saturday, April 27 at 11 a.m. and last about three hours. Some disruption to traffic may be expected at this location.

Also participating in this activity will be the Melville Fire Department and other community mutual aid responders, Suffolk County Public Health Department, County Homeland Security and Anti-Terrorism, County Fire Rescue Emergency Services and other federal agencies.