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- Paranoia - Sticky labels.
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- Hello All,
-
- During the Festive season, a particular hate of mine, in fact a
- paranoia, has been increasingly added to by the major high street
- shops. It is the ubiquitous sticky label. Why, why and quintuplet why
- do these bastions of our society commit us to spend our well earned
- winter break period trying to remove these evil and annoying little
- chaps from the goods we have purchased. The one that really did me in
- was on a special Christmas card I purchased. It would not come off, I
- ended up obliterating the said card and I hadn't even managed to peel
- the corner! There are two varieties that get up my nose particularly,
- the one is the little tiny one on that says 69P on it, when you get it
- home you start to pull it off. You get the corner up and start to peel
- ever so gently, and yes it starts to come off, then you find it is made
- up of three parts and the last bit WILL NOT come off, why make them in
- three parts?? The other one is about 2" by 3" and looks a beast from
- the start (I usually refuse to buy anything with this type of label!)
- and when you get it home it confirms that it is a beast. You can
- usually get 90% of it off but most of the glue and 10% of the paper is
- always left behind. How can the manufacturers know which 10% to make
- unremovable, how do they know which corner you will start on? Do they
- know something we don't?
- Yesterday I purchased some Addis storage bins for the shack, and low
- and behold, they had the biggest, brightest labels I have seen for a
- good few years literally plastered all over them. I refused to buy
- them but the YL said they would be OK and purchased them for me
- (paranoia does have it's benefits) I got them home and guess what?
- These lables were of the highest quality, you lift the corner and they
- come straight off, no glue or paper left behind. I couldn't believe
- it! I even tried sneaking up on them, attacking them from behind but
- they still came off without problem. I even tried the high speed
- removal trick, it worked! These particular labels are a boon to anyone
- like me, my new year gloom is lifting ever so slowly now.
-
- All I can say is:
-
- NICE ONE ADDIS!!
-
- Happy New Year to all and best regards from Mick G4XMH @ GB7BAD