A threat by Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the global postal system could lead to a "nightmare scenario" of mail going undelivered, packages piling up and American stamps no longer being recognised abroad, the U.N. postal agency said. The Universal Postal Union (UPU) has been
GENEVA - A threat by Donald Trump to pull the United States out of the global postal system could lead to a"nightmare scenario" of mail going undelivered, packages piling up and American stamps no longer being recognised abroad, the U.N. postal agency said.
"It is really a nightmare scenario," the UPU's secretary-general, Bishar Hussein, told a news conference, noting that no country had ever left since the agency was founded nearly 150 years ago. It now has 192 members. The UPU is one of the oldest international organisations, set up in 1874 to ensure that mail could be delivered anywhere on earth. It establishes a system for calculating the fees, known as"terminal dues", that countries collect from each other to deliver mail that arrives from abroad.
"The mission here today is to retool this system for the brave new world of e-commerce," he told the three-day talks.
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