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They may intend to use it... in Photoshop or most likely, another image edit program that can read paths or alpha channels which is why they want a path saved into the jpg.  Such an application will not be able to open a psd. Thus, a jpeg is required.

I think GIMP is one application that can read PS created paths in a jpg. I could be wrong tho- never used GIMP.

Most probable reason why they send it for processing is because either they have no time or patience or skill to do it..........

One more thing.... they requested save to jpeg? or jpeg2000 (.jpf)?    jpeg2000 , in my opinion, is better with path/alpha transparency and has a higher compression ratio thus a smaller file size compared to JPG (another reason they want a jpg - small file). ..... just my 2 sens.