This is GROSS!! *warning*

[Mandy]

GOOD information & most of us still do this

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.

[Kimberley]

That's gross!

[Janet]

I wish I hadn't read this

I licked three envelopes today....OMG!!!! OMG!!!!

I'm gonna puke....I just know I'm gonna puke!!!!

[Marilyn]

I buy envelopes with peal & stick tabs. They cost a little more, but no licking!!!!

[Amber_lv]

OMG i'm so glad i do everything over the phone i don't even own an envalope or stamp but this is so gross!

From now on I'll tape mine. GAG

LOL

This is totally not true!

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

Expectant roaches carry their eggs in a largish brown sac called an ootheca, a firm-walled egg case attached to Mama Roach's posterior. A roach ootheca is about the size of dried bean, not something that could be worked into anyone's gum line.

http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/coc...of_licking.htm

Consider this. A pregnant roach carries her eggs in a hard capsule called an ootheca, in which they incubate intact until the larvae (or "nymphs") hatch, bursting the capsule open. The eggs themselves can't survive at all outside the ootheca, let alone flourish within the body of a mammalian host. You're not likely to find individual cockroach eggs strewn about on random surfaces, in other words — certainly not across the flap of an envelope.

[BabyNicole]

Originally Posted by KellyV

LOL

This is totally not true!

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


http://urbanlegends.about.com/od/coc...of_licking.htm

I figured it was an urban legend. I was just going to check Snopes, and you beat me too it. Nice job!

[highlans]

Still not going to lick ( just in case).

[RLC12345678]

Yeah, I had heard the one about Taco Bell, but not envelopes! That is disgusting! And considering I have a HUGE phobia for "R"s (see, I can't even say or type the name of those wretched insects), I will be taping my envelopes from now on. I know it is an urban legend, but it's better to be safe than sorry!

[Mandy]

Urban legend or not, i'm never licking another envelope, just never know where it's been!!

[rivermom]

My husband and I watched this story on t.v. It freaked us both out!! I've never looked at an envelope the same when I prepare to lick it sealed, ugh!!

[Sherry Lynn]

Originally Posted by Marilyn

I buy envelopes with peal & stick tabs. They cost a little more, but no licking!!!!

That's what I use...

weather true or not, I heard that years ago and i use a wet sponge to seal mine ever since....I dont lick anything anymore lol that is gross and could very well happen.

[Emmsmom]

Originally Posted by Mandy

Urban legend or not, i'm never licking another envelope, just never know where it's been!!

AMEN!

michelle