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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: net.internat,misc.legal,net.travel
Subject: postage for mail to foreign countries
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Date: Mon, 27-Oct-86 00:48:31 EST
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Please forgive me for choosing somewhat inappropriate newsgroups--net.travel,
net.internat, and net.legal are the closest I could find for this question.
net.mail would not do since that is not meant to be about paper mail, only
about electronic mail.

Anyhow, what I am wondering is whether, and how, the postal delivery system
of a foreign country is reimbursed for its part in accepting, transporting,
and delivering a piece of international paper, or parcel, mail which has
originated in the USA, and for that matter, vice versa.  Are there treaties
and procedures governing this, or what?  People to whom I have tried to
explain this concept do not seem to be able to grasp what I mean, saying
things like "the dickens with the foreign country!  It just delivers the
mail!  How simple can you get" and the like.  Surely the higher price of
"overseas" or international postage must be doing something more than just
paying the way of the mail it is attached to, to the border of the destination
country, otherwise why higher postage to Canada and Mexico?  And surely the
destination country's postal service isn't interested in completing the
delivery gratis.  So what's up? 
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|       dan levy | yvel nad      |  my own and are not at all those of my em-
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| at&t computer systems division |  upon which I may hack.
|        skokie, illinois        |
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	   go for it!  			allegra,ulysses,vax135}!ttrdc!levy