Have you seen this before?
When I saw it at Muji (ION Orchard), I just had to get it! Didn’t even look at the price till I was at the cashier counter! $13 for a masking chop sounds ex. But let me show you the usefulness of this amazing little chop!
I first discovered such chop at Carrefour. But I didn’t get it cause at that point of time, the chop seems useless for me. Then one day when I was clearing my stack of letters, and tying my best to tear it as small as possible so that the address, account number, etc will not be revealable should anyone want to piece the torn pieces together. It was that day where I realised I should have gotten that masking chop!
So let’s say this is a letter with your address printed on it, what you do at home is usually tear it off before throwing away right? Unless you’ve got a shredder at home, then that’s a different story. For me, I tear them off everytime so that people will not get to see my address.
And this is what the Muji Masking Chop looks like…
Before you dump the envelop away, you just need to chop the stamp over it and no one will get to see what was written below the chop!
This way, you will even be able to reuse the envelop! Cool right? Wahahaha! That’s why I bought it immediately when I saw one at Muji! And yes, its refillable, so when the ink runs out, you just have to fill up with the stamping ink refill. Now I don’t have to tear my letters up anymore! Just chop, chop, chop and I can dump them in the bin without having to worry what others might do with my details should they pick it up.
Muji Masking Chop at S$13. I <3 MUJI!
Wow i love the chinese typo within the chop. Gonna get one too! Never thought Muji has got such awesome stuff!
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Quite innovate, for sure.
However, wouldn’t this only work if the underlying text that you want to mask is in black ink and about the same intensity as the chop stamp ink?
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@Jayden: Yes! I’m using the chop as a decorative chop too!
@Jonathan: I think it works too. Got to give it a try first. But then, most of the should-be-masked mails are usually printed in black isn’t it? E.g. bank statements, income tax, govt letters etc.
What does the masking chop say? Or is it just random chinese characters / kanji fit together? Haha, I’m curious. :D
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@Ivy the stamp can be found here >> http://claudialim10.blogspot.com/2009/08/characters-on-muji-chop.html
Looks random to me.