How one Russian got more than he bargained for when he bought some wooden crates for firewood.
An article on the BBC website has brought a whole new meaning to the words “fire” wood. An inhabitant of the Russian village of Udmurtia bought some crates with the aim of using them for firewood but discovered that, with this innocent purchase he had also gained his own armoury! Some of the crates contained Kalashnikov rifles and parts!!

If you are going to mail goods overseas to military personnel, you might not have to send your letter international mail or go through a whole lot of special gyrations that you might normally do when sending international mail.
The military has APO / PPO addresses set up to allow them to process mail easier as well as to allow soldiers, sailors, pilots etc in the military to get gifts, letters and other correspondence more easily without big charges or hassels.