Sir F.A. Rien wrote in
:

One of the most popular jokes was that the meteorite was supposed to
fall on Dec. 21 last year -- when many believed the Mayan calendar
predicted the end of the world -- but was delivered late by Russia's
notoriously inefficient postal service.
It was held up in Customs ...


I mailed a CD from our Math Study Unit to a member in Russia last October.
He had not received it as of early February. This is the only CD out of
about 40 mailed out worldwide that did not get through. Apparently this is
not an isolated problem with Russian mailings as the member asked us to
send the CD to a friend in the US who would be able to get it to him.

Bill