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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.internat,misc.legal,net.travel
Subject: Re: postage for mail to foreign countries
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 14:10:55 EST
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The original agreements setting up the International Postal Union specified
a "you deliver my mail and I'll deliver yours" arrangement, in which the
destination country handles delivery for free, in return for the source
country doing the same for mail headed the other way.  These agreements
are still essentially in effect, although there have been more recent
supplementary agreements covering compensation payments in the event that
the traffic is seriously asymmetrical.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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