Who gets the money from my stamp when I mail a letter or a postcard (via Mailform or Docupost for example) from the UK to the USA or vice versa? If it’s the UK, how does the airline or the postman in the US profit on my letter? Also, Are they obliged to deliver it for free once it reaches the other country because they receive no direct payment from me? How can international mail help recipient countries make money?
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Whomever you bought the stamp from earns the profit.
When it comes to international post, most countries have reciprocal agreements – we agree to accept post from other countries postal systems, and in return they accept post from ours.
In some cases where there is a large imbalance in the amount of mail being sent, there can be additional fees paid by one postal system to another, so they will effectively earn a certain percentage of the postage on an envelope.
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