| Why You Should Never Lick Envelopes What you don't know, wont hurt you, but this
one it sure is worth knowing. I
used to work for an envelope company. Our plant supervisor
used to work in the Chicago plant and told us not to lick
the envelopes because they would often find dead rats at
the
bottom of the glue barrel (after thousands of envelopes
had been glued
and shipped).
I work in a factory and we have 2 employees
who used to work in an envelope factory. They told me
that when the machine jams
up, they use whatever water is handy to thin out the
glue. This includes water that they just mopped the floor
with. Since
then,
I've avoided licking envelopes!
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, but 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 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 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.
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!
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
envelops 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.
After
reading this you will never lick another envelope or
stamp ever again. |