Do you LICK your envelopes ????
This is a true story reported on CNN
If you lick your envelopes...You won't anymore!!!! A
woman was working in a post office in California. One day she
licked the envelopes and postage stamps instead of using a sponge. That
very day, the lady cut her tongue on the envelope. A week later, she
noticed an abnormal swelling of her tongue.
She went to the doctor, and they found nothing
wrong. Her tongue was not sore or anything. A couple of days later,
her tongue started to swell more, and it began to get really sore, so
sore, that she could not eat. She went back to the hospital, and
demanded
something be done. The doctor took an x-ray of her tongue,and noticed a
lump.
He prepared her for minor surgery.
When the doctor cut her tongue open, a live roach
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.
Andy Hume wrote:
Hey, I used to work in an envelope factory. You
wouldn't believe the.....things that float around in
those gum applicator trays. I haven't licked an envelope for
years.
To All:
I used to work 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 2500 envelopes that were
already printed for a customer who was doing a mailing and saw several
squads of
roaches roaming around inside a couple of boxes with eggs everywhere.
They
eat the glue on the envelopes. I think print shops have a harder time
controlling
roaches than a restaurant. I always buy the self sealing type. Or
if need be I use a glue stick to seal one that has the type of glue
that
needs to be wet to stick.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON!!!! STOP DOING IT
God Bless! Love, your sister in Christ, Tami
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