Who buy’s the stamps you have to lick? Don’t we all get the peel-off backing kind? Hasn’t technology allowed us to come out of the dark ages of licking things indiscriminately for the purpose of adhesive? What year is this?
Anyway, here’s a really bad idea if you are still living in the 19th century: sweet and sour stamps.
Stamps released in China to celebrate the Year of the Pig taste of sweet and sour pork.
The stamps on sale in China to celebrate the country’s New Year…When you scratch the front of the stamps, it smells of the popular chinese dish and when the back of the stamp is licked it tastes of the dish too.
May I be the first to say, “Um, ew!” Maybe it’s just me, but I really don’t want to lick the back side of a pig and have it taste like Chinese food when I’m just trying to mail a bill to some company that hasn’t come far enough into the 21st century to allow simple online billing through my bank protecting me from dangerous hand cramps that come directly from having to spell out the dollar amounts in cursive on my checks.
Cursive…pfft. Besides making your wedding invitations look like they cost $50 each, what purpose does it serve? Sorry…back on topic.
Now, if you made a sweet and sour scented envelope that, when opened, wafted the gentle aroma of greasy stir fry kitchens into the nostrils of the unsuspecting credit card company government taxing agency fine lending institution representative, I’d be down with it. Where can I get one of those?
[thanks, b, for the killa link]
I don’t want to have my stamps taste like anything other than the standard glue taste. That said, I have to admit it - I sort of hate the peel & stick stamps. Call me old school, but they just seem so lazy. I miss the licking.
(I wonder what that last sentence will do to your search engine traffic…)
And don’t you hate when the self-stick stamps inadvertently stick onto something *other* than the letter you needed to mail? There goes $0.39…