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May 25, 2012

From eyes to eBay

Greyhound delivers

by Eve Silberman

posted 10/11/2011

"Greyhound's still delivering packages!" exclaimed a surprised Ann Arbor woman when told that a box was waiting for her at the downtown bus station. Like many people, she'd figured that FedEx had made bus shipments obsolete--but her ninety-year-old friend in Benton Harbor, whose package contained chocolate chip cookies, knew better. On a fall day, about a dozen boxes, plus a duffel bag with a Santa Rosa, CA, return address, were stacked in the lobby. The cheerful guy behind the security window explained that U-M students would be down shortly

 
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