It wasn't a quilt I sent but I sent a box of things to DD, SIL & grandsons to Bulgaria, when they hadn't received it after 3 months my SIL went to the postal place & the man at the counter said it was there somewhere & for a price he would go look for it! SIL says they do that frequently at the post place there so he told the man no thanks he'll just wait for delivery, it finally showed up 2 weeks later! And the price for mailing it to them was almost $300, now I just send money in with a card taped very securely around it.
Just a tip about sending money, I was told once that the mail passes through some kind of X-ray machine and if there is money inside they can see it and the envelope tends to then disappear, so to "fool" the machine, you should wrap your note in some alufoil!!! Good luck, specially with sending ANYTHING to countries east past the borders of Germany, Switzerland, Finland and even Italy is not that safe either, sadly....
