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heifeng -

we do? i've seen the water wheel thingy so we don't have to spit in the US, and in China i've seen
the cafeteria style method described above, but in BJ i mostly see the glue wheel method...



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Outofin -

I think they're just trying to save a few cents. You don't have lick pre-gummed stamps, but China
doesn't have them either.

But it's true too that we avoid licking. In many times I saw some TV news hostess licking paper
when they browse. A beauty, in public, licking paper. So unappropriate!










roddy -



Quote:

You don't have lick pre-gummed stamps, but China doesn't have them either.

Who's 'you'. You get lickable stamps in the UK, or at least you used to, haven't seen a UK stamp
for years, bar on envelopes.










Outofin -

sorry, typo. I meant "You don't have to", not "You don't have". I mean, people just peel the
stamps off without having to lick.










芳芳 -

Well, i really appreciate you to discuss that point now.

Christmas coming next month, my dear roomate and me were in a mood for sending Christmas. And she
has a huge family, a good bunch of friends, on my side I had quite a lot of people to write to
(hehe, i'm not that much a card nor Chritsmas person, but you don't have so often the occasion to
send Christmas cards from Urumqi right?).

So yesterday, we arrived to the post office with our 123 non pre-gummed envelopps, 5 rolls of
adesive tape in case the post-office won't close the envelops for us (didn't close the envelops in
advance because sometime, they want to open them before shipping to check whatever they want to
check), and our naive happyness at the idea of our friends receiving the postcards.

And with a stupid grin on their face, the post office employees told us that,yes, good thing we
didn't close them beore coming to the office, and haha, we have to close all the envelops by
ourselves, and no, no, we shall not use the tape we brought because it would have been too easy
and efficient, but use the glue jar with the stuff they call glue that doesn't stick, and yes it
took us ages because the evil stuff won't go out of the pot, then won't go on the appropriate
place on the envelop to contribute to the function of closing the envelop, and anyway, after 32",
the envelop you just closed pops up open because the glue is not strong enough to keep it closed,
but strong enough to keep two envelops you would have by mistake put too closed to each other
stuck together for ever, bah it's too bad those two envelops have to go to different destinations.
And the post officer with his smile from one ear to another "helping" us by carrying each "ready"
envelop from the gluing desk to the stamping desk, and coming back after 32" when the envelop has
poped up open.

But "When you're chewing life's gristle,
Don't grumble,
Give a whistle
And this'll help things turn out for the best.
And...
Always look on the light side of life, badam, bada bada badaam"












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