Snail mail
 

I always thought this phrase was a reference to the postal service being necessarily slower than email. But it turns out there is a double meaning.

Apparently snails love the glue used to stick envelopes together and therefore like to crawl into post office boxes, where there is plenty for them to eat. I read today that a North London postbox has had to be closed while a colony of molluscs is cleared out of it.

The naked snails in my garden sometimes get into my mailbox and feast on my mail. At first I thought some of the envelopes had been stuck in some machine and therefore got ripped open but one day I saw a naked snail having a go at it.. If I catch them again at it, I'll take a photo.

Naked snails are called slugs. At least on this side of the pond.

In the UK also!

At the moment I saw the topic, I jumped to read it thinking it should be something related to postal service. I couldn't help laughing after seeing the true story..Anyway, I learned something new here.Thanks for sharing

Thanks for the information Hazel. Always good to learn something new :)

Every now and then I find a snail in the bathroom, they hide in the ivy outside the window and occasionally venture inside. Several times lately I've removed one from the top of a stack of toilet rolls and put it back in the ivy. Last time I popped a roll off the stack, not only was there slime on the edge, but part of the cardboard middle had been scraped off. These rolls have a shiny bluish finish to the cardboard, and only that layer had been eaten.

Now I think about it, I don't remember the snails showing any interest in bogroll in the previous couple of years. Unfortunately I can't remember the brand, otherwise I could buy the same again, and leave one next to an envelope to see which the snails prefer.

They are now going to be naked snails in my head from this point onwards! :)

I have one in my living room, whether a snail or a slug I don't know because I've never seen it. But I find the trails sometimes in the morning. I don't think there's any point in looking for it. There are too many places where it could hide.

ewwww

If the trails are generally in the same place, sprinkle some salt across the area. Salt and slugs/snails do not get along, because salt is a deadly poison to them.