Last Christmas I sent a package to Finland and the tracking stopped as soon as it left the states. I shipped it out on Dec 2, and it didn't arrive at the destination until the 24th. I was sweating it big time!
Not to mention the mail clerk (seeing how nervous I was to begin with as it was a hand made item) decided to regale me with a tale of a friend who sent her package over seas, but when the package arrived to where it was going...it had different contents in it!!

Customs had open the package, but put the wrong item back inside.
So not nice to tell someone mailing a package through customs huh?
Um.....and so not nice of me to relay that story to someone waiting on customs too huh?

**runs for cover before getting splattered with rotten tomatoes..**