Daryl, you are absolutely wrong on your statement about Post and holdups. Customs holds nothing in the way of normal merchandise going anywhere, unless you live in a country on the "watch list". I see you list Pharr Tex as your home, so you are probably not on the watch list. Normal shipping time to EU and former SSSR is 7 to 14 days, period.
When I moved to Krimea, I had sixty some parcels sent here, everything from tanks, tank kits, electronics, radios, parts, computer parts, right down to the kitchen knives, and not a one parcel was held up either in USA or here, and here they are a little more picky about what comes in Post than USA.
For anyone living in EU or former SSSR, the normal shipping time from USA is 7 to 10 days, 14 days maximum. I know, as I ship to EU and former SSSR all the time. My customers are in Ireland, UK, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Danemark, Germany, France, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Spain, Poland, Czech Republic, Byelorus, Russia, and Ukraine, to name some. Never have I had a parcel take longer than 14 days to get to a customer in the aforementioned countries. The average for all those parcels to Krim was 8 days each, from drop off at US Post to pick up and Ukr Post.
I don't have a dog in this hunt, Daryl, as rccom sells apples and I, etoarmour.com, sell oranges. I have carefully stayed out of the ongoing since May fracas here, but enough is enough. I will now PM you.