The phrase "a friend to ship" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It seems to be an incomplete or incorrect expression, and without additional context, it is difficult to determine its intended use.
Example: "He was always a friend to ship, helping us navigate through tough times."
Alternatives: "a friend to support" or "a friend to assist".
A motherboard manufacturer, whom he met through a friend, promised to ship $50,000 worth of chips and other parts.
You cannot browse Amazon for products to ship to a friend to go with the e-card, nor can you "attach" digital purchases, like a Kindle book download, for instance.
If you want to avoid seeing them altogether, you can get a friend to deliver it, or ship it in the mail.
He saves up and pays a friend in South Carolina to ship him a dozen cartons at a time.
McNEELY--Donald, ventured forth from this life on March 9 in Pebble Beach, California, a place he had been drawn to while exploring the most exclusive golf courses of the West Coast with a friend before shipping off to the Pacific Theater of WWII.
Mr. Casey smoothly changed the tempo in a new section devoted to odds and ends: "I will have to repay $17.42 to my father for shipping a certified copy of my birth certificate to me overnight, $12.25 to Oconomowoc High School in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, to ship a certified copy of my high school transcript overnight, and $37.20 to a friend who shipped me other needed identity documents overnight".
He asked friends and family to ship him cheap textbooks from Thailand, which he sold for a handsome profit in America.
Many women utilized complex arrangements to secure "safe enough" formula for their babies, often relying on friends and relatives to ship or carry foreign infant formula purchased abroad or in other cases resorting to carefully researched domestic channels.
He waited in the kitchen of his friend's Manhattan apartment, preparing to ship off to rehab, looking like a man headed for the gas chamber.
A stale, moderately-stabby house party led me and my friend to abandon ship for our unavoidable, regular dancing destination.
