Is there any possible way to ship a cake?

A friend of mine is begging me to send him one of my cakes...but, I want to decorate it.

How do I do this?

If you have a surface that can be wrapped (fondant or marzipan) you can wrap it in plastic, put it in a container in a protected package.

however, unless you can pay for an airline ticket, there is no way a decorated cake will make it to any destination in one piece.

A decorated cake can NOT be shipped. But, then there is a lady on Ebay who sells cakes and ships them-her cake is a 3 layer stacked cake with just icing on it-it's not decorated. But, I don't see how she says, "not a crumb will fall". There was a discussion on that-someone was suppose to buy one and take pictures, but I don't think anyone did that yet. LOL. ~Josie