9/25/2019 Today in Geneva, Switzerland, delegates to a Special Congress of the Universal Postal Union (UPU) reached an agreement on reforms to the way postal operators pay each other for delivering international mail—the so-called “terminal dues” system. The UPU is the United Nations agency that regulates international mail and has more than 190 members. The […]
The Universal Postal Union agreed to a compromise Wednesday that would allow the United States to set its own inbound postage rates and remain within the organization the Trump administration had previously threatened to leave. Jean-Paul Forceville, the chief negotiator for France’s La Poste, told CNBC earlier that the probability was “pretty high” that a […]
“The Postal Service would like to thank President Trump for his leadership in helping us to negotiate the resolution of an intractable problem with the payment system for the international exchange of small packets that has persisted over many years, and that has been extremely difficult to resolve. We are very pleased that the member […]
The effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you, and higher shipping rates for some packages are the likely outcome. GENEVA (AP) — The effects of President Donald Trump’s standoff with China could soon be coming to a post office near you — and higher […]
Statement: NALC opposes State Department decision to leave UPU Statement from NALC President Fredric Rolando: 10/23/2018 The U.S. State Department’s announced last week that the U.S. will withdraw from the Universal Postal Union (UPU) after a special meeting of the UPU failed to adopt pricing policies (so-called terminal dues) advocated by the United States at […]
BERNE, Switzerland, March 31 — The Universal Postal Union issued the following news release: The recent Bali agreement’s promise of increased global trade is pushing postal services to listen closely to customers and work more effectively with all stakeholders to meet the expectations of consumers and merchants wanting to ride the e-commerce wave. Listen to […]