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No, the purpose was to make it affordable for poor people to send letters and packages to richer countries, with the assumption that traffic both ways would be
by 9nGQluzmnq3M 7y ago
No, the purpose was to make it affordable for poor people to send letters and packages to richer countries, with the assumption that traffic both ways would be roughly equal. The UPU and its tariff agreements way predate online shopping and the concept that it would ever be feasible for somebody in the US to order items from a shop in China with a few clicks of a button.