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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Check out this super relevant episode of Planet Money: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/08/01/634737852/episode-857-the-postal-illuminati
It is the story of a person discovering and standing up to the UPU.
The Universal Postal Union is part of the United Nations, and it’s made up of representatives from the Postal Services of 192 countries.
What the UPU has created is almost like a reverse trade barrier. And this is true for virtually every country in the world. There is often an incentive to buy something that ships from another country instead of your own.
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