>It's not a loophole and it was a business deal not a treaty. Participation in the Universal Post Union is a political matter. Countries cannot simply back out

>It's not a loophole and it was a business deal not a treaty. Participation in the Universal Post Union is a political matter. Countries cannot simply back out if they think certain terms are unfair. >The USPS exec thought he was being clever by getting free shipping to China, but he didn't realize that there is practically no mail shipping US to China, and lots of mail shipping China to US. For the same article it still costs China less to send to the US than the other way around because the former counts as a developing country, though the unbalanced volume does compound the problem. After all the scheme was not drafted with many small parcels of personal imports in mind and it will take decades to fix.