From a Safety List

[Staver]

I think this is my first posting venture into OT and probably my last if history serves me.

envelopes

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). EEWW!
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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...
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1.) 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, 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.
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2.) 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!"

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3.) 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.
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PLEASE PASS THIS ON, if you like TO YOUR FRIENDS. After reading this you
will never lick another envelope or stamp ever again.

Have a nice day, & keep your tongues where they belong!

 

[Toasthead]

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.asp

 

[Toasthead]

In May 2000 someone thought to add further snippets of implied credibility to the e-mail quoted above, namely:

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.

This is a true story . . . Pass it on
First of all, the story was not reported on CNN. Pasting such authoritative-sounding taglines into the text of hoaxes circulating on the Internet in an effort to give them credibility is commonplace, and this is just another case of some nameless prankster doing just that.

Second, no one knows who "Andy Hume" is, so why give his supposed comments about working in an envelope factory any credence? It ain't all that tough to make up a comment and a name to go with it. If "Andy Hume" works for CNN, it's news to them. Searches of news databases for any reporter of that name turn up one who writes for The Ottawa Citizen, and wider searches turn up a British sports figure who also carries that name. There was also a Washington reporter, Sandy Hume, who killed himself in February 1998. But there's also no reason to assume any of those folks penned the comment circulated to bolster the credibility of the "envelope" e-mail.

 

[Tea Bag]

I like how right in the middle of the story it says " This is a true story reported on CNN." ooh, IT HAS TO BE TRUE!!

edit: Three snails in a row.. How kicka55 is that!!*








*not very kick-a55ish I know, I'm bored here!

 

[TitanDiddly]

Yeah, cockroaches don't hatch in your mouth, sorry.

 

[Baked]

I've licked many envelopes, and I'm still alive. People who get sick or die are just weak.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Tea Bag
I like how right in the middle of the story it says " This is a true story reported on CNN." ooh, IT HAS TO BE TRUE!!

That alone tells me it's BS. Anytime someone writes in one of these hoax emails that it is a true story reported on such and such network I automatically assume it's bullsh!t.