formerPhillyguy

LOL. I think you just confirmed his first point listed above.

If you are in the US, you can join the marines. This is true. Back in the early 90's, someone I worked with wanted to be a professional audio engineer and, I guess, couldn't afford the school, so he joined the marines with the understanding they would train him to be the engineer for their bands and orchestras. He still had to go through basic training, but they kept their word. After leaving the marines, he worked for Claire Brothers, one of the largest touring audio companies in the industry. He is now the lead audio engineer for one of the Vegas casinos and has worked with Springsteen, Sting, Manilow, Bette Midler, and I don't know how many others.

Not OP, but I hired someone in Europe to do some art for me and they created it electronically, which I then downloaded and printed myself. We used paypal to transfer funds.

You know you are disregarding what the statement means. Are you going to live two days longer now? Another way to look at it is, just think about all the experiences and conversations you missed by flying instead of travelling by bus. You might have lost two days of time.

A couple of days ago, i watched the U.S. national news and saw a report out of a town closest to the front lines, that was getting shelled regularly. It showed how the mail was being delivered and the trash trucks were making their rounds picking up garbage. Life is going on as best it can and since you would be doing an electronic transaction, OP can get the funds transferred to his bank account as long as he has internet access, which he obviously does.