"Big John" wrote in message

.....give to a Commercial Airline Pilot coming our way and
they would carry in cockpit and hand off to us

We used to do that also, up to a point. You couldn't be too blatant about
things. I used to regularly carry personal stuff back and forth to Sydney
for a family in my town whose daughter was doing one year there in college.
We carried a new inflatable to a guy in Pago Pago.