On 7/2/24 13:40, Adrian Godwin via cctalk wrote:
> I was once told that the Chinese government subsidises post in exchange for
> getting prompt tax returns. Don't know how true that is.
> 
> There's also some sort of agreement between postal services that means
> every country gets uncharged local deliveries in the destination countries
> in exchange for uncharged local deliveries in china. I think this is how
> the subsidy works - the chinese post being government owned can arrange
> their accounting so they don't have to balance these sums out. Thus
> exporters can aggregate their deliveries into a bulk carrier (hence the
> delay that's longer than DHL/UPS) and pay nothing for the last leg.

Postal rates between countries have long be determined by treaty.  Used
to be the IPU (International Postal Union), but is now the UPU
(Universal Postal Union), which is an agency within the UN.  The general
idea is for postal rates to be independent of politics.

An interesting aside with regards to international postal rates is the
story of one Charles Ponzi.

--Chuck





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