Sergeant Norm Leong, spokesman for the Sacramento Police Department, announced at 3:05 p.m. that the package found outside the Fort Sutter post office at 1618 Alhambra Blvd. was not an explosive.

Sacramento Post Office spokesman Ralph Petty described the item as a glass bottle that had been wrapped up with a wire protruding from it.

Shortly after 1 p.m., when a customer found the package, the Sacramento Fire Department and the Sacramento Police Department were contacted by the post office and traffic was blocked off by squad cars.

The block of Alhambra Boulevard between P and Q Streets, half of one lane of P Street between 30th and Alhambra, as well as Q Street between Alhambra and 30th Streets were blocked while police and fire crews waited for the Explosive Ordinance Disposal to arrive.

Post office employees and other employees from surrounding businesses watched as the event unfolded.

Ginger Mott, 48, who works for a state agency in Libby's Cannery, found out about the incident when she went on break with her coworker.

"We don't even know what's going on here, but if it's so suspicious, why aren't [they] evacuating everyone?" she said while watching the post office from across the street.

"We take these matters very seriously. If anyone has any information regarding this suspicious item, they should call the Postal Inspection Service at 1-877-US-MAIL5," said Misty Racimo, federal agent with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, which is the law enforcement branch of the postal service.

The mission of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service is to protect the safety of employees and customers and the security of the postal service, facilities and operations.

They investigate crimes that were committed using the postal system or its facilities.

The U.S. Postal Inspection Service will work with the other law enforcement agencies to determine who left this package and what the intent was.

Colleen Belcher also contributed to this story.