Speaking of fedexing your stuff to your vacation destination, I never understood what was to stop people from fedexing bombs and blowing up planes and trucks that way. (I hope no terrorists are reading this and getting ideas.) Why can you not take your stuff on the plane but the post office can put it on their planes? Come to think of it, there have been people who used the mail to send bombs -- remember the Unabomber? Are the post office, Fedex and UPS worrying about this and what are they doing about it?

I just remembered what a pleasure it was when I visited New York to buy a whole lot of books at Barnes & Noble (the REAL one, not these phony chain clones) and then go to the service desk and have all those books shipped back home to me, so I didn't have to shlep them all in my suitcase, and a few weeks after I got home from my vacation, there would be these great packages arriving, like birthday presents to myself.

So like should drug stores now have wrap 'n' send desks so you can send yourself toothpaste and shampoo?