INTERNATIONAL POSTAL UNION
A resolution to reduce barriers to free trade and commerce.
Category: Free Trade
Strength: Mild
Proposed by: Grays Harbor
NOTING the diversity of national postal systems;
WORKING to eliminate inefficiencies in international postal delivery;
The World Assembly,
1. CREATES the International Postal Union (IPU), as a union of postal administrations of all member states that will aim to work together to coordinate postal deliveries between all member states;
2a.1. DEFINES, for the purpose of this Resolution, the Freedom of transit, as the obligation for all postal administrations within the IPU to:
a) Relay and deliver postal items to or towards its destination in the most direct, safest and fastest route as possible;
b) Not discriminate between domestic and international postal items originating from postal administrations within the IPU;
2a.2. EMPHASISES that the definition of the freedom of transit shall not imply that a member state is obliged to permit all postal administrations within the IPU to traverse its territory, in order to relay or deliver the postal items;
2b. FURTHER DEFINES, also for the purpose of this Resolution:
• Hostilities, to include war, territorial and/or trade disputes, or refusal to recognize a nation's current government;
• Hazardous materials, as any nefarious inclusion to a mail package that could cause illness, injury, or death in a postal worker during routine transit, including but not limited to, chemical and biological agents, or explosives;
3a. INTRODUCES the International Reply Coupon which can be exchanged for the postage rate of one basic unregistered letter to be sent to a member state within the IPU;
3b. SPECIFIES that postal administrations in member states 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;
4. GUARANTEES the freedom of transit for all postal items throughout all member states, except where specifically limited elsewhere in this legislation;
5. SPECIFIES that:
a) Member states currently involved in hostilities shall be under no obligation to carry mail addressed to or sent from nations engaged in hostilities with them, except where mandated by international law;
b) Member states may determine procedures for handling hazardous materials in postal administrations under that nation's jurisdiction, and to determine which items may or may not be transmitted through that nation's postal system; including but not limited to hazardous or illegal materials;
6. PRESERVES the right of each postal administration in all member states to collect a reasonable fee for its handling of postal materials;
7. ENCOURAGES 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 monitoring and updating effective technical cooperation to meet the needs of postal customers.
(Co-authored by Krioval; Editing by Charlotte Ryberg)
This is based upon the RW Universal Postal Union, which has been successfully ensuring the trasmittal of mail and posts since 1874.
Shall we begin?