Name: Susan Virginia (Zone 8a) God is the only thing that matters.
I have received Hostas in Walmart bags in the mail, no problem. Another good tip is to water them with a diluted miracle-grow solution and it will prevent them from going into shock, just in-case they get stressed out.
Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Mat.6:28-29