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From: ekb@ho3cad.UUCP (#ERIC K. BUSTAD )
Newsgroups: net.internat,net.travel
Subject: Re: postage for mail to foreign countries
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Date: Wed, 29-Oct-86 12:49:34 EST
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> The Universal Postal Union (UPU) treaties signed back in the late 1800's
> by most (if not all) countries state that countries receiving foreign mail
> will deliver it to the addressee without charge.  From my stamp collecting
> days, I remember a lot of commemoratives being issued for one of the
> anniversaries of the UPU.

I have read that the theory behind this is that there is about the same
amount of mail going in one direction between two countries as there is
going the other direction.  So each country pays for delivering the mail
from the other country with the extra money it gets for mail going to 
the other country.

= Eric Bustad
  AT&T Bell Laboratories
  Holmdel NJ 07733-1988
  (201)949-6257
  ekb@ho3cad.ATT.COM or ihnp4!ho3cad!ekb