With an economic crisis swirling and unemployment numbers climbing, one company declared Tuesday “free resume printing day.”

FedEx Office offered to print 25 copies of customers’ resumes free, including the resume paper, at any of its 1,600 stores nationwide.

Brian Phillips, president and CEO of the Dallas, Texas-based company, said it was the chain’s way of trying to help.

“We understand that the economy has affected many people in a very profound way,” Phillips said in a news release, adding, “Printing resumes is one small way we can use our resources to help those who need it.”

Tiffany Antin, a first-year accounting student in an online college program and a job-seeker in Atlanta for the last year, said she was surprised by the lack of a crowd when she took advantage of the offer.

“I really expected to see the line out the door,” she said.

There would have been lines, had anyone known about it. The key to helping people like this, is announcing it well in advance so people have a chance to hear about it. Then again, maybe they wanted to help, but just “not that much”. Who knows. I know I could have used the service. 25 copies of my resume would have been nice to have.

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