this is one of those stories which periodically makes the internet rounds, and I recently received the whole gruesome thing from a subscriber. I won't transcribe all of the exchange here, but the salient bit went like this:

not to put too fine a point on it, this story is pure bodewash, bushwa, bs with a capital BS. my first question: what does the "e", as in "shite" stand for? or the "c", as in "schit"? (these are both earlier spellings.)

see the links:
http://www.takeourword.com/et_temp.html
http://www.takeourword.com/TOW167/page4.html

the phrase "Ship High In Transit" gets perzactly four(4) hits with google: one pornsite, one with a "wink", one debunking it (see above), and one i-don't-know-what.