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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The post office in the country of origin *of purchase* buys the stamps for *x* dollars and they sell them for *y* dollars. The post office where you buy the stamp realizes the profit
IIRC most ‘regular’ postal services (ie US postal) are government funded, so they’re pretty well taken care of. All the value added things they do (selling packaging material etc) is just extra
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