I've always licked my hinges. Why pass up an opportunity to leave my DNA on a stamp? It is my stamp.
I've also always licked my envelopes and the stamp for postage. I was really disappointed with the self-adhesive stamps. It took me several months before I quit my automated habit of licking the back of a stamp before affixing.
I like licking stamps.... although perhaps not always the hinges..... but the calories in them has led to my rather widened body!
I am a letter writer, snailmail addict. I send therefore I receive. I also manage a letter writing/correspondence forum called A World of Snail Mail. I sometimes post pictures on Instagram (username morgaine_does_snail_mail) Stamp themes - science, nature, postal history, maps, nice stamps.
I have been advised by experts that the thing to use is a moist cotton-bud/q-tip. My ex recently gave me as a present a box of 625 q-tips (I am at a loss as to the significance of it! ) but since I recently bought some hinges, they ...well some of them at least, will come useful.
Dogs can be trained to lick them for you. Cat's can't! Wives rarely cooperate.
Greetings Mr. rayb . That's why kids and grandchildren come in so handy. (I had a comment about licking wives, but I'll save it for another forum.) I miss my dog. . Respectfully,
Gordon Lee
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Post by Gordon Lee on Nov 24, 2013 13:18:41 GMT -5
Greetings Fellow SB Boarders . While soaking old stamps have you ever stopped and considered who (or what) licked those stamps? Hard telling what kind of infectious gunk, germs, diphtheria, fungal, virus, plague, staph, typhus and yellow fever type diseases was included in that saliva that slobbered on that stamp and plopped it on an envelope. Soaking off old hinges don't bother me too much. After all, stamp collectors, if they are like me, are a better class of people and their stink don't smell. . Respectfully,
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) but since I recently bought some hinges, they ...well some of them at least, will come useful.
