FEATURE/Small-Town Gallantry Saves Mother's Day for Mother-To-Be.Business/Lifestyle Editors FEATURE... --(BUSINESS WIRE FEATURES) In a gracious gesture that would have made his mother proud, the proprietor proprietor n. the owner of anything, but particularly the owner of a business operated by that individual. PROPRIETOR. The owner. (q.v.) of a Herndon, Virginia Herndon is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 21,655 at the 2000 census, which makes it the largest of three towns in the county.[1] History , packaging and shipping store has helped make Mother's Day a little brighter for a young mother-to-be struggling through a difficult pregnancy. Eight months pregnant and confined con·fine v. con·fined, con·fin·ing, con·fines v.tr. 1. To keep within bounds; restrict: Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand. See Synonyms at limit. to bed-rest by her doctor, Herndon resident Anne Tapp needed to get a Mother's Day gift to her own mother in Michigan. Working over the phone with a local gift shop, Anne selected a picture frame. Next she called the nearby Handle With Care Packaging Store. Second-day air, special packaging for the fragile frame, even a personal pick-up at the gift shop -- none of it was a problem for the Handle With Care Packaging Store. When Tapp called back to the gift shop to close the deal, however, the manager refused to let her pay over the phone. Sadly, Tapp called the Packaging Store again to cancel her order. Bob Darr, who runs the franchised business, answered the phone this time. Without hesitation, he offered to walk over to the gift shop, pay for the frame himself and then add the charge to the packaging and shipping bill. "For someone to do this for a complete stranger is extraordinary," Anne said. "He was so concerned that I stay in bed and not take a chance of losing the baby. He must be a very special person." Tapp was so touched by Darr's kindness that she's told the story to her mother-in-law and several friends -- by phone, of course. And she can't wait to share it with her own mom on Sunday. Tapp, a fourth-grade teacher at Forest Edge Elementary School elementary school: see school. in Reston, VA, is expecting her second child July 2. Handle With Care Packaging Stores specialize in packaging and shipping fragile, large, awkward and valuable items. Darr's store, which he acquired in 1998, is one of 170 franchised outlets in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . Handle With Care Packaging Stores are franchised by Navis Logistics Network Navis Logistics Network is a parent company based in Denver, Colorado. The company currently runs two national franchises. Navis was founded in 1980 as a single retail store and expanded in 1984 with franchise operations in its Handle with Care Packaging Store. , a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. headquartered in Greenwood Village, CO. |
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