Shipping in lieu of packing… a better alternative?

With airline traffic steadily increasing, more and more of us are faced with the same question; How in the world am I going to fit all these things in our luggage? perhaps it is instance to start thinking external of the box, and instead of packing all our things, possibly we should just start to consider sending our belongs ahead of time and stop worrying about packing all of our things?

As I read Joe Brancatelli’s (portfolio.com) scoop discussing airline baggage, I could not help think back to December when my girlfriend had her bags lost for by a week on a trip from Europe back to the states for Christmas. Inside that luggage we had all her clothes, as well as all of my family’s Christmas presents. Since she was flying into the states on Christmas Eve, and the

airline lost her bags for a week, we had no presents to give out on Christmas, and by the instance they showed up, on New Years Eve, the Christmas magic was pretty much lost.

As we examined final week, airline delays final year were approach an all instance high, but as I mentioned in my exposition, the one thing that bothers me more than being late, is arriving without my luggage. While lost baggage rates stayed pretty regular final year, with 9 out of 1,000 passengers filing lost baggage claims, there are other reasons why we may should consider shipping instead of packing in the future.

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Original post by Michael Fowlkes

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