But unlike most couriers, aid donors operate amid chaos, with rapidly changing constraints (surges of people, outbreaks of disease, attacks by warlords).
Reduce that to two and there may be an outbreak of heart attacks.
Rattled by a sudden outbreak of Tory attacks on the constitution, the Blair government is playing down the significance of the whole exercise.
And the second has been thrown into question by a recent outbreak of Protestant attacks on Catholic homes and by rising anti-Catholic violence in advance of the annual season each July when Protestants conduct marches and light bonfires to celebrate victories over Catholics centuries ago.
The boycott, intended to protest Russian anti-gay legislation and a recent outbreak of violent attacks on the country's gay citizens and advocates, was initiated last week when columnist Dan Savage urged readers to "dump Stoli" and other Russian spirits on the Slog, a blog from Seattle-based weekly newspaper The Stranger.
Indeed, such fears were key in provoking the current outbreak of suicidal attacks by young knife-wielding Palestinians.
Refugee camps were established in May last year to house thousands of foreign nationals displaced in an outbreak of xenophobic attacks that claimed up to 60 lives.
Those years have been tumultuous: five prime ministers have come and gone, street protests have paralyzed parts of Bangkok, the capital's two airports have been taken over and there have been outbreaks of violence, including attacks on Prime Minster Abhisit Vejjajiva, the storming of the Parliament building and the disruption of a meeting of Asian heads of state.
Last year I met victims of one of the worst outbreaks of violence, an attack on Ahmadis in Cikeusik on Feb. 6, 2011, which left three people dead.
At the outbreak of the attack, her crew was distracted by the initial assault on Ford Island and was buzzed by a flight of Nakajima B5N torpedo bombers.
