Brown Paper Packages Tied Up with String

Two of Dmitriy Yemets' books arrived in the mail yesterday. Hurray! Now I can find out what happens in book 2, Tanya Grotter and the Disappearing Floor. My mom is a stamp collector, so she very much enjoyed all the Russian stamps. I liked the fact that it really was a brown paper package tied up with string. How often do you see that? Also, I'm heartened to find that Russian airmail, at least from Moscow, is considerably less slow than molasses. This is a Good Sign.