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spindle

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licking envelopes!
« on: February 23, 2007, 02:44:50 am »
not cleaning related but interesting all the same! :-X


  A woman was working in a post office in California.  One day she licked the envelopes and postage stampsinstead of using asponge. That very day the lady cut her tongue on theenvelope. A  week later, she noticed an abnormal swelling of hertongue. She went   to the doctor, and they found nothing wrong. Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple ofdays later, her tongue started to swell more, and it began to getreally sore, so sore, that she could not eat. She went back to thehospital, and demanded something be done.The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue and noticed alump.He prepared her for minor surgery. When the doctorcut her tongue open, a live cockroach crawled out!!!! There were roach eggs on the seal of the envelope.The egg was able to  hatch inside of her tongue, because of her saliva.It was warm and  moist...This is a true story reported on CNN .Andy Hume wrote:Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. Youwouldn't believe the....things that float around in those gumapplicator trays. I haven't licked an envelope for years!" I used towork for a print  shop  (32 years ago) and we were told NEVER to lick the envelopes. I never understood why until I had to go into storage and pull out 2500envelopes that were already printed for a customer who was doing amailing and saw several  squads of roaches roaming around inside a couple ofboxes with eggs everywhere. They eat the glue on the envelopes.PLEASE PASS THIS ON, if you like, TO YOUR FRIENDS.After reading this you will never lick another envelope or stamp again.
life is one big learning experience!!!!!!!

Mike Halliday

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Re: licking envelopes!
« Reply #1 on: February 28, 2007, 08:03:36 am »
I don't know how i missed this one :o :o

this is why I only use postcards ;)..... but do envelopes still need licking, I try and use the self stickiy ones

Mike
Mike Halliday.  www.henryhalliday.co.uk

rs_cleancare

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Re: licking envelopes!
« Reply #2 on: February 28, 2007, 08:13:02 am »
I use to work in the print and mail industry and this email did the rounds a few years back and got a lot of people worried..... :o