Can you believe this...yuck!

For the people who have not moved onto email or self adhesive envelopes
... beware.


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 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. 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 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.