Never Lick 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 found a
cut on her tongue.
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 cockroach 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
and saw several squads
of cockroaches roaming around inside a
couple of boxes with eggs
everywhere. They eat the glue on the
envelopes.

After reading this you will never
lick another envelope or stamp again