Postal Wars: Update!
Remember the " Postal Wars" story, where my reader told you about our fun international game? A few days ago, the U.S. Post Office delivered my book. It was shipped from Russia on 14 June, and arrived at my apartment on 11 July. The package arrived in very good shape, with no bumps or bruises.
I love these international deliveries - postcards, hand-written notes, books, or candies from friends. Some of you are probably old enough to remember when the world and human relationships survived just fine without email, text messages and Facebook. All these technological advances are great and I couldn't live without them. However, for me there's still great pleasure in opening a letter from a friend, in seeing a snapshot of some foreign land on a postcard and knowing someone thought of me in that instant and took the time to hand-write a message. Yes, deep down I'm a sentimental fool! :)
It took less than a month to get "букварь," an adorable book, in my hands! I suspect Natalie's book, which was mailed on the exact same day, is now sitting in a huge stack in some Russian post office. How long will it take Russian Post to deliver it? Will it ever arrive? Hmm, stay tuned...:))