Prexie International Parcel Post To Austria 1946

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I donot disagree with how the parcel rate for the item to Austria shown here is calculated(but I doubt that Germany as a transit country did not get any part of the postage) . What I disagree with is that you say that the sending country could keep all fees charged for a UPU parcel. The main reason why we seems to have different opinions is that we have different definitions of what an UPU parcel is. For me a UPU parcel is a parcel handled only by countries who signed the UPU parcel treaty and that USA never did (at least not before 1960). And you call all foreign parcels for UPU parcels. But most US parcels were sent based on bilateral agreements with USA and the receiving country. Which was for example the case with the Mexico agreement 1888. UPU was not involved here. If you take a look at a UPU parcel treaty you will see that the fees are divided in the manner I described and you will also find a list of the countries who signed it and the US is not one of them

It looks as also for some international parcels sent according to a bilateral convention the receiving country got a part of the postage. On http://www.worldlii.org/int/other/t.../1923/19.pdf you will find the convenmtion with Sweden 1922 and there the followin is said in Article 7. "The Post Office Department of Sweden shall pay to the Post Office Department of the United States 50 centimes. (gold). for each parcel forwarded from its offices to the United States and the Post Office Department of the United States shall pay a similar amount to the Post Office department of Sweden for each parcel forwarded from its offices to Sweden.. The accounts shall be balanced every quarter and a general balance of such quarterly settlements struck yearly which amount shall· be paid by the Post Office Department of the debtor country" 50 gold centimes was then about 10 US cents