"I want my mother back."

That is what Rachelle McIntosh says. "It was hard to mail my mother but I had no choice."

Rachelle's mom died a few months ago and she wanted to have a memorial service in New Jersey. So she shipped her mom's cremains via UPS (or in this case, OOOPS)to her sister in NJ.

When the box arrived in NJ, it was empty. No urn, no ashes. OOOPS!

2 thoughts occur to me:
1) Would you ship your mother's ashes anywhere? Not me. Seriously, there is no way I am gonna ship my mother's cremains (by the way she is alive and I hope she is not reading this) anywhere. If they must travel, I will take them there myself. I am not kidding. really! No way I am shipping my mom.

Airlines evidently are forbidden from transporting cremains, so I guess I would drive. But to ship them? Seriously!

Worst of all, my UPS store operator tells me that the only entity legally allowed to ship cremains is the USPO. Just confirms my decision. Not entrusting my mom's cremains to the feds. Not even Newman!

2) She says it was hard to mail "her mother." Rachelle, that is not your mother. Those are your mother's earthly remains. Your mother had a body; she was a spirit. I pray she is now in heaven with her maker. Either way, the ashes in the urn are not "your mother."

That should come as good news.