postal workers with guns -- pension payments

[Saskia]

> --- In 1997, pensions were still hand delivered in cash.
> Two people (usually women) with a computer printout made
> monthly rounds to be sure you still lived there, were
> alive, and got the money in your hand.
>
> Does anyone know if this is still the system?

I saw this happen while visiting friends in Moscow in 2003. Two people rang
at the door and delivered the money in exchange of a signature on a
printout. Maybe someone knows if things have changed since.

Saskia Ouaknine
PhD student
Montreal, Canada

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