Wow, I go offline for a day and a question with a very simple answer turns into a four page thread, including incredibly arrogant and offensive responses like this one. In response to UKtravelbear, I know many parents who would prefer not to send their 18-year-old off to university for the first time with his passport. My brother would much prefer to spend whatever it's going to cost him to FedEx it rather than risk having to deal with the hassle of trying to replace a passport at the last minute when the kid loses it.

My brother had enough sense to ask me this question with plenty of time to get the passport into his kid's hands (the flight is not until next week), I had told him that it was required before I even started this thread, which I did just to see if other's had had a different experience. The question clearly was easily answered and certainly wasn't worth all of the stupidity that has been posted over the past 24 hours.