if I post a letter to another country, ticket expenses go to my country. How the other country where letter goes get paid?
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There’s agreements between the countries for how much gets paid.
The simple solution is that letters going in the reverse direction also get paid in the country they are sent from.
Answer: There’s an organization called the Universal Postal Union that coordinates this between countries. A lot of the time, they just say “ok, we get a lot and also send a lot, it mostly equals out, we’re all good.” Other times a country says “hey, we get a TON of mail from your country but we don’t send any, you should pay us.” But they basically settle up every so often based on the totals throughout the year instead of trying to pay each other a tiny amount with every letter.
The UN has a Universal Postal Union that co-ordinates postal polices between member states. Established in 1874 as the General Postal Union, the UPU is among the oldest existing intergovernmental organizations. It sought to standardize international mail delivery by establishing a uniform postal rate and equal treatment between domestic and foreign mail. The organization adopted its current name in 1878. It operated independently before being incorporated into the UN in 1948.
Basically there are agreements in place so each countries postal service gets paid, but there is some short comings as some states get paid more than they receive for mail, and vice versa.
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