U.S. Mail to India

We've been very curious about how long it would take for mail to get to us in Bangalore and how much it would cost, so an experiment was conducted.  Allison's parents sent a manilla envelope from Butte, MT with about a dozen pieces of paper in it.  It cost $3.50, took 9 days, and made it right to the mail box at our house.  Some mail from Montana to Minnesota has taken almost that long!  Now we just need to figure out how to send mail in the other direction.