Deliveries

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I believe Drea's character was delivering the packages as a favor to her parents in order to get cheap/last minute tix to Paris...but not positive.

They are working for a courier service. It's a bit shady and Drea's husband has something to do with it...leading us to belive that he's not what he seems.

I thought the same thing and wondered if my DVD was damaged. That's when the movie began to take a turn for me. I was really enjoying it and then after that, it seemed really contrived and became less and less coherent. After the weird people her and Audrey deliver the packages to - which was very odd to me - then Nora stays in Paris and has an encounter with an older French man, which didn't seem to really fit into the storyline.
Parker Posey was great, though.

I think it was just a cheap way for them to go to France. Nora was talking as if she couldn't afford it, so Audrey came up with a way for them both to go. With their airfare taken care of, they could plausibly afford to stay in Paris for a few weeks.

I'm not exactly sure why Audrey would need the money. As a non-working wife, perhaps she didn't have any money of her own. Perhaps her husband wouldn't have given her the money for such a "frivolous" purpose. Perhaps she devised this plan so she wouldn't have to ask him.

They were delivering packages so they could get the cheapest tickets on a courier plane. This is really unusual today, although I believe it was done quite a bit and was often recommended to backpackers and students who needed cheap seats. With the security concerns today, I've only heard and read that getting a cheap airplane ticket by acting as a courier is rare now.

So no, your DVD didn't skip. Nora didn't have any money and her friend hooked her up with cheapest way to travel: as a courier.