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The Russian Mail System

Any plans to use the Russian mail system should include some thought about how lucky one is feeling on any given day ...

The Russian mail system is structurally inefficient & notoriously slow. To send your postal letter on it's way, it must be addressed in your native language. Adding a Cyrillic address label makes things easier for the Russian postal authorities once your mail has entered Russia, but now the foreign postal stamps & duo-language address labels have attracted unwanted attention. Too often foreign mail directed to a Russian address is prematurely opened in an attempt to find foreign currency or other valuables.

While Russians women truly value the opportunity to correspond with foreign men and most often invest considerable effort into answering your written inquiries, they too are wary of the Russian Postal System. The cautious person would seldom send their correspondence via unregistered, regular mail. To compensate, they often send foreign-bound mail in registered-letter form, at a cost of around 24 rubles for a single letter (approx. 30 rubles = $1.00 USD). If all goes well the letter will reach a US in approximately three weeks. The timeframe is similar sending "registered mail" from the USA to Russia.

Russia is truly a poor country. While Togliatti's industrial nature affords local residents a higher than average worker wage, please consider that the salaries in question here range from approximately 400-1600 rubles per month. Teachers may earn 500-1000 rubles per month, Civil Engineers 900-1200 rubles per month, and industrial workers may earn 1200-2000 rubles per month (overall range 15.00 to 79.00 US dollars per month).

Therefore, the teacher who earns 25 rubles a day must work that entire day and into-the-next to pay for her Registered letter's posting! Even the higher-earning factory worker must work for two and one-half hours to do the same. American and western European men . . . . imagine spending a like-amount of your earnings to mail a single letter!