Lick Your Envelope!

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...


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Andy 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 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.