Saturday is absolutely necessary to many seniors, shutins, handicapped others who require, for numerous reasons, delivery of their medications by mail. That one day off could cause somebody to die.
Transplant patients, for example, have to take a couple or more of their medications twice a day for the rest of their lives. It seems simple to tell these patients, “Well, just make certain you keep your supply up.” But the reality is, the patient or his or her family are not the ones who control their medication supply. Pharmaceutical supply houses, drug store chains who ship the drugs, and specialized pharmacies who provide highly-specialized drugs for treatment of cancer, Alzheimer patients, and many others, must have patients order drugs in a certain window because many states, regulatory agencies, and others only allow them to order refills when they get down to certain supply levels.
A transplant patient—we have a transplant patient without our family, so we’re very familiar with the difficulty of being certain the daily drug regimen is followed—may order a drug on Monday and sweat out the delivery by Thursday, Friday or Saturday. If that drug is not taken within a couple of hours of the scheduled dose, organ rejection may begin to occur. You can’t take a transplant patient to the physician’s assistant at Walgreen’s. If a patient misses a drug dose, you would want to get them to a transplant facility as soon as possible. If you live in a small town, and your transplant center is a three hour auto trip in the middle of a violent rainstorm, show storm or dust storm, that could be a real problem.
Okay, you say, just order the drug the Thursday or Friday before. Depending on the drug, that could be outside the window of time when the drug can be ordered.
What say you guys give some thought to the needs of people before you go off speaking blather about things you don’t know the ramifications of.
I agree with you. My husband receives several medications by mail, and the pharmacuetical vendor determines when the refills can be made, and it does sometimes get down to the last few days.
Also, I have a relative who is in prison, and the only way he can receive any communications from the outside world is through the mail.
Dude.
Have you heard of this great company called Fed Ex? Or another one known as UPS?
For years they have been safe, reliable, dependable and cost effective ways for people to get packages they need.
Fed Ex, UPS, there are alternatives just as reliable if not more so.
Thank you, righttackle44, for stating the case that six-day delivery is vital to seniors and those who rely on mail order medications. Posters on this board keep parroting the line that everybody will be happy with five-day delivery. Not so! Wait till you have to mail a birthday card or bill by Tues to make sure it gets there by Friday, because with delivery standards being relaxed to save money, if you mail it a day later, it might not arrive till Monday.