A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade | Strength: Mild | Proposed by: Grays Harbor
Description: The World Assembly,
NOTING the diversity of national postal administrations in member states, whether public or private;
SEEKING to transform the efficiency of international postal delivery positively;
1. CREATES the International Postal Union (IPU), a union of all member states' postal administrations aiming to coordinate postal deliveries between member state' postal administrations;
2a.i. DEFINES, for the purpose of this Resolution, the Freedom of transit, as the obligation for all postal administrations within the IPU to: relay and deliver postal items to or towards its destination in the most direct, safest and fastest route as possible, and not to discriminate between domestic and international postal items originating from other postal administrations within the IPU;
2a.ii. EMPHASISES that the definition of the freedom of transit does not imply that a member state is obliged to allow postal administrations to traverse its territory, in order to deliver postal items;
2b. FURTHER DEFINES, also for the purpose of this Resolution only, Hazardous materials, as any malicious inclusion to a mail package that could cause illness, injury, or death to a postal worker during routine transit, including but not limited to: chemical and biological agents, or explosives;
3. GUARANTEES the freedom of transit for all postal items throughout all member states, except where specifically limited in Article 4;
4. SPECIFIES that:
a) Member states are not obliged to carry mail addressed to or sent from nations engaged in hostilities with them (war, territorial/trade disputes, or refusal to recognize a nation's current government), subject to the immunities recognized by international law;
b) Member states may determine procedures for handling hazardous materials in postal administrations under their jurisdiction, and to determine which items may or may not be transmitted through their postal system; including but not limited to hazardous or illegal materials;
FURTHER SEEKING to increase the efficiency of international correspondence between member states;
5a. INTRODUCES the International Reply Coupon, which can be exchanged for the postage rate of one basic unregistered letter to be sent to another member state;
5b. SPECIFIES that postal administrations within the IPU are not obliged to issue International Reply Coupons, but are required to honour International Reply Coupons in exchange for the postage of one basic unregistered letter at the international rate;
6. PRESERVES the right of each postal administration in all member states to collect a reasonable fee for its handling of postal materials;
7. RECOMMENDS the development of fair common standards and the use of technology in postal delivery, including fee schedules and the proper handling of hazardous materials;
8. CALLS FOR the monitoring and updating of effective technical cooperation to meet the ever-changing needs of postal customers.
Edited by Charlotte Ryberg
Ms. SARAH HARPER (CHARLOTTE RYBERG, standing in for the PRESIDING OFFICER): It being 5PM GMT, the Clerk has re-designated the resolution now pending before the World Assembly which was collaborated by the General Assembly...
The READING CLERK: The International Postal Union, a mild resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce, proposed by the Kingdom of Grays Harbor.
Ms. SARAH HARPER: About time... only nine days left until the holidays and some national postal administrations have already announced last days for post items to be sent in order to arrive for Christmas way back in October! Postman Pat is having busy days recently.
The READING CLERK: Forget the Christmas Cards and Postman Pat, will my new PS3 arrive on time?
Ms. SARAH HARPER: May I clarify that this resolution does not guarantee that there will be no more postal strikes in member states, PT, MT, PMT or FT: sorry.
The READING CLERK: My nation's postal administration is already on a perpetual strike.
Ms. SARAH HARPER: Not a problem, it's actually tracked but it's still stuck in Charlotte Island because the backlog destined for your nation, because of the strike, honoured clerk. I'll tell you what, I will send it using private post! The resolution doesn't guarantee that the Royal Minoan Mail will directly get access, but perhaps the private carriers in your nation could?
The READING CLERK: Ill' get them informed.
Ms. SARAH HARPER: Great! Now, this resolution will be at vote until Friday, the last guaranteed posting date for Christmas for standard class post back home. I now yield the floor.
The READING CLERK: Okay, now, who is going to play Charlotte Ryberg's Ambassador when you are care-taking?
The PRESIDING OFFICER (rushing in): Thank goodness for keeping the floor active, honoured ambassador to Charlotte Ryberg, Sarah Harper. I missed the WA Monorail express I was meant to catch to get here.
(looks at the ticker)
The PRESIDING OFFICER: Yeah, the floor is yielded already so let's get talking.
The Chair recognizes the ambassador from Charlotte Ryberg...
Ms. SARAH HARPER (CHARLOTTE RYBERG, now back on the right desk): For your information: The drafting and proposal talk has been separated from the voting thread for logistical reason and is located here, sic. Archive 25,500. The honoured ambassador to Grays Harbour has given me the permission to carry the operation out and may he please confirm this by posting here and saying so. As we have edited this resolution to death, and despite the slight, yet far from fatal overlook on on the definition hazardous materials due to the recent parade of clearly flawed resolutions: it will work, so we have voted FOR.