Reply To: “Keep It Simple, Sufferer…”
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What about when a parcel arrives… Post… Courier… Whatever. It will have contacted lots of other items on it’s journey, that is inevitable.
Well… A parcel arrived for me a couple of days ago… The agent knocked on the door to explain that one bit was damp because of something else on the load. Another parcel had leaked. They asked me if I still wanted it. Well, I needed the item, so, in the presence of the agent, I opened it… The item inside was dry… So, I gratefully accepted the package.
I got the item, and disposed of the packaging in the recycle bin. No worries… After all… Couriers are not known for carrying hazardous waste. That was a week ago now, the item is in use, and I haven’t purposely gone to see if the packaging is even totally dry. None of it got on my hands anyway…
I treat it like the supermarket conveyor belt… Especially in the frozen food shop… It is an acceptable risk, arrived at jointly by myself and the delivery agent.
We have no way of knowing if something is perfectly clean… All of our lives we have been taking the risk. And have come through it… Otherwise I wouldn’t be sat here writing this!
They used to say that kids brought up in poor areas would be more rugged and resistant to illness. This is fine up to a point. We all need to be warm and dry most of the time…
Okay… Time for a cuppa and a biscuit…
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