dsp: I'm not saying there will be a bit of congestion, but not on the scale some seem to be talking up, not on the above numbers.
Well...let's watch and see. It will be interesting.
The impact will be (*or maybe not?) felt on an already poorly functioning Russian postal system. But, I am sure, once the other countries so nicely sort it all out and have it pre-bagged...it makes for an easy solution once it hits the Russian borders.
Yes, overloads of political mailings, once the postal service figures out what is happening, is handled as bulk bagging - to make it easier on the guys down the line. I used to be a postie long ago...in another life, in a land far, far away...and I have bagged stuff like that up at the local level. At the very least, I snapped rubberbands around it before it was tossed in the "international" bag...to be sorted at least once more before heading out over the great pond