[sarah levine simon]

This discussion lined up like so many of today's issues. Eg. Those with employer based health insurance think the US has the best medicine in the world. Those who don't have it go without primary care. Here in this discussion we have what sounds like a corporate person who flies frequently at the behest of his/her job telling us how to ship what is necessary in advance. I work out of my home and for the most part by the hour. I would have spend at least two of those hours getting to a shipping place. Or would have to be at home waiting. Not like I can leave the package with the receptionist. Then again, I don't use FedEx enough to get preferred rates. My guess is that it would have cost a bundle to send the stuff my daughter needed. That's burdensome in an otherwise hectic life. Everything I do is paid for out of my pocket like so many other's today. I know many people who were downsized by corporations like IBM and have started their own enterprises. We depend on the services of big guys like the airlines and when we can't the big guys eventually feel it, too.