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Mail is Dirty

Mail is Dirty

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Is this satire? Maybe not…

satire

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A literary work in which human foolishness or vice is attacked through irony, derision, or wit.

Do we know how many hands our mail passes through? 

At the Post Office…

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Do they sanitize the sorting machines? 

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Do they sanitize the floors?

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Does everyone wash their hands after going to the bathroom?  Do they sing happy birthday to themselves twice while doing so? 

Do they sanitize their hands between touching each piece of mail?

Do they sanitize?

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Do they sanitize the trucks?

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Do they sanitize the mailboxes?

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Do they sanitize their hands between touching each piece of mail?

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What happens when they drop mail?















The USPS customer

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Do they sanitize or wash their hands?  Do they sanitize? sanitize? sanitize?

Do they wear a mask?

Do they wipe down the mail chute before putting their mail in a mailbox?

Does everyone wash their hands after going to the bathroom?  Do they sing happy birthday to themselves twice while doing so? 

Do they sanitize the envelopes?

Do they spray that mail with sanitizer and put it in a sealed plastic baggie?

Etc., Etc,. Etc.,…

Mail is dirty. Mail is dirty. Mail is dirty. Mail is dirty.


We need to go digital and use only email.




Copyright 2020 By Joyce Bowen

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Comments
The greed thing is true, Fay Vietmeier. However, the genome for COVID has not yet been discovered.

Fay Vietmeier

3 years ago #17

Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee So many companies convey in their mission & values: "Customer Care" ... I would respond this means means caring about your customers GREED is a prevailing wind ... as contagious as the corona virus In all things discernment is PRICELESS Be well with all your being.
Not to mention, Fay Vietmeier, many of the products they are putting out there to 'sanitize' us are extremely toxic. The FDA has targeted dozens of hand sanitizers as harmful and one even caused comas. It only takes 26 or 29 seconds for this stuff to permeate our skin and enter the bloodstream. When anyone tells me to use it, I politely decline and tell them I am perfectly willing to wash my hands. The word 'care' should be redefined as 'cashing in.' It certainly is not a helpful word, and perhaps it never was.

Fay Vietmeier

3 years ago #15

Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee A great way to introduce your post: Is this a satire? Maybe not ... I agree with what you say here: "If we do not consistently confront our physiology with infection--it will kill us far faster than these microbes. We are doing exactly the opposite of what we should be doing, and we are doing it with blind compliance." Somewhere in my memory of reading ... is the thought some "dirt" is "good" ... and "let your kids play in dirt" ... it's "healthy" ... and over-sanitizing can have negative health effects https://nypost.com/2016/08/20/we-need-to-stop-sanitizing-everything-and-let-bacteria-back-in-our-lives/ (there are many articles about this)
Hey--I have an idea, Fay Vietmeier--amputate all hands. That should do it. As a once-budding child geneticist, I can tell you firmly evolution created our immune system with the requirement that they be challenged. All this 'dirty' talk is ridiculous and needs to be 'cleaned' up. If we do not consistently confront our physiology with infection--it will kill us far faster than these microbes. We are doing exactly the opposite of what we should be doing, and we are doing it with blind compliance.
Hey--I have an idea, Fay Vietmeier--amputate all hands. That should do it. As a budding child geneticist, I can tell you firmly evolution created our immune system with the requirement that they be challenged. All this 'dirty' talk is ridiculous and needs to be 'cleaned' up. If we do not consistently confront our physiology with infection--it will kill us far faster than these microbes. We are doing exactly the opposite of what we should be doing, and we are doing it with blind compliance.

Fay Vietmeier

3 years ago #12

Joyce \ud83d\udc1d Bowen Brand Ambassador @ beBee We should ponder such things: ... how many people DO touch mail before it reaches us ... how many people handle money before we spend it ... and then the cycle is repeated ... in the food chain how many people touch foods before we consume them (especially fruits & vegetables) ... how many surfaces we touch on any given day that have been touched by uncounted ... unknown persons ... with unknown afflictions

John Rylance

3 years ago #11

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#10 I remember a proverb from my childhood said we all will/ should eat a peck of dirt before we die. It was often quoted to parents whose child kept eating soil. Perhaps the new version should be you have to touch a lot of mail/ coins to get the virus. A riskworth taking the decision is each person to make.
Franci\ud83d\udc1dEugenia Hoffman, beBee Brand Ambassador Franci, Franci--this is satire to make fun of that aversion to dirt. Perhaps we should shoot all the dirt on the globe into outer space. Wait--we have symbiotic and infectious microbes on our skin and 4 lbs of bacteria in our guts. Perhaps we should follow.
Okay, Ken Boddie... Just had to make a tweet out of this.

Pascal Derrien

3 years ago #8

brilliant they are going to stop giving homework too not safe schools out forever :-)

Ken Boddie

3 years ago #7

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Well, Joyce ... Don’t ask me to scoop, Up some grasshopper poop, Whether sickly sweet, sticky or runny, No time will I spend, Near a cricket’s rear end, I’d rather eat syrup or honey. 🤗
Ken Boddie I remember playing with friends in their yard down the street and having them try to get me to try grasshopper poop right out of the spigot, saying it was molasses.
hahahaha Ken Boddie. I remember that one.

Ken Boddie

3 years ago #4

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Reminds me, Joyce, how back in the day, I used to watch my dad working in the garden while I played with worms, which in turn reminds me of ... Nobody loves me, Everybody hates me, Think I’ll go and eat worms. Nice big juicy ones, Little tiny fruity ones, Anything that squirms. Bite off their heads, And suck up the juice, And throw the skins away ... plonk! Nobody knows how I can thrive, On worms three meals a day. 🤗
Ken Boddie Not to mention you're talking to a person who had a 5-year-old childhood goal of sifting the rocks out of all the dirt in the backyard. How I made it to this age, I'll never know. Maybe someone 'sanitized' the dirt.
Ken Boddie This piece was inspired by a run-in with a grocery clerk. I asked about reusable bags and she curled her lip while telling me how dirty they are--and "some people don't even wash them!!" I said, "ya I don't" and she became even angrier. We had words and she walked away from the cash register, refusing to finish tallying the cost. So I came home and wrote this. I have been trying to get help for a bum leg for 4 months now. I was sitting in an ER room talking to the doc when my crippled hands lost control of my glasses, flinging them across the floor. He graciously picked them up and handed them to me. I said thank you and watched as he pulled a paper towel and tried to hand it to me. I waved him off, telling him, "No thanks. The immune system needs constant stress to keep working." I could almost see him gritting his teeth behind his mask. I CANNOT wait until this craziness is over. [by the way--they never figured out what was wrong with my leg. Asked a friend who is an MD in an 'east osh-gosh of the globe, and I do believe he figured out what could be wrong in a few seconds.]

Ken Boddie

3 years ago #1

We all know that mail just ain’t clean, Nor indeed’ is that sorting machine, So when handling, just think where it’s been, Soap your hands or use spray ethylene. I must say, Joyce, that I only seem to get snail mail letters from charitable organisations and politicians, and then, of course, there’s the inevitable cardboard boxes we all receive from ordering on line these days. I guess the best we can do is beware ... and continue to celebrate our birthdays doubly, using a regular salvo of soapy or sanitising solution. 🤗

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