USPS: HIGH SECURITY FOR HARRY POTTER BOOK

HIGH SECURITY FOR HARRY POTTER BOOK. The New York Times reports that extensive security measures — jointly organized by the publisher, retailers, wholesale distributors and delivery companies — are in place to make sure no copies of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince go astray before 12:01 a.m. on July 16, the official time of release for the latest installment in the J. K. Rowling series. The article said that over the next 9 days, Amazon and other online retailers will turn over more than 1 million copies of the Potter book, most of which will be delivered by USPS on July 16.