Major-Tom wrote:Shrillland wrote:From the Washington Post: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-ditches-144-year-old-postal-pact-that-boosts-chinese-retailers/ar-BBOwvhn?li=BBnb7Kz
Effective October 18, 2019, the US will be the first nation to pull out of the Universal Postal Union, the international body that's responsible for postal services, which the US helped create back in 1874. Trump's doing it because of steep discounts that the Chinese pay on sending small parcels, which, I think, could've been settled without giving the world the finger...again. But then he wouldn't be Trump, would he?
To be perfectly honest, I didn't even know there was such a thing as the UPU or whatever. I'll have to read about it before I make an opinion.
You know how if you post something internationally, you put US stamps bought from the USPO on it, and it magically gets there, despite passing through the hands of at least one other organisation in an entirely different country that you never gave a penny to? That's what the UPU allows.