Social distancing seems to affect almost everything!

[Musicman]

Birthday card received recently . . . .

"Birthday Wishes
     from a safe
  Social distance"   
     

[rayard]

I posted birthday cards this morning but I didn't lick the envelopes!! (Shall be usng a damp sponge for the  Christmas cards!)
rayard.

[ThrelfallYorky]

Yes, I started doing that very early in the first lockdown. Hope everyone sending me cards at Christmas will be doing the same!

[Milliepede]

Never lick an envelope, haven't done that for years. I use a little glue stick but put a scrap piece of paper underneath to prevent whatever you lean the envelope on getting sticky! 

Glad that stamps are self adhesive now too.  Praise be for the little things. 

[Skoosh]

Howard Hughes was so paranoid about germs that he famously wore Kleenex boxes on his feet! 

Skoosh.

[ThrelfallYorky]

- Where did he wear the Kleenex? (other tissues are available)

[candleflame]

I just don’t seal my cards, haven’t done for years. I just tuck the flap in old school. My logic years ago was that there had been cases in the paper about light fingered posties sadly, so I figured as my cards never had money in them, if I just tucked them in, they’d realise they weren’t worth opening. Plus I never liked the taste of envelope glue.....

[groom]

The time my post is taking to arrive recently, I don't think there's much chance of any virus surviving. 

[Caw1]

Our post isolates in the porch for 3 days before being opened... then use gloves and an old knife to slit open envelopes...

Am I right in thinking that ‘in the old days’ if you didn’t seal an envelope but just tucked it in the postage was less... or is that just a figment if my imagination!

Caroline