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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP (Werner Uhrig)
Newsgroups: net.internat,misc.legal,net.travel
Subject: Re: postage for mail to foreign countries
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Date: Thu, 30-Oct-86 22:54:49 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 30 22:54:49 1986
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Summary: it's not "tit for tat" everywhere ...
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it would greatly surprise me if the East Germans don't make the West Germans
pay for delivering their mail.  They charge for everything else:  use of their
roads and tracks and waterways.  Of course, they don't let hardly anyone out
to use the ones in the west and gifts flow mainly only in one direction ....

If a West German goes to visit the East (don't know about other nationalities),
he has to exchange a certain amount of money for every day he plans to stay
there and at a ridiculous rate (25% of what I could get at a western bank)
and the amount is anything but trivial.  but I am getting side-tracked ...

I would nearly expect that there is a totally uneven mail-flow to Mexico and
many other countries also and that those countries insist on getting
compensated.