Why do my hard earned tax dollars support a bike team? - Page 6

Luigi de Guzman <luigi12081@cox.net> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 22:49:18 -0500, Tim McNamara
> <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote:
>
>>That brings up a question I have never thought of.
>>Presumably, I pay USPS for the stamp and then once it gets
>>to Ireland or France or Italy or wherever, USPS is paying
>>that country's postal service to actually deliver the
>>letter. How does that work? And how does it work in
>>reverse? I'm assuming that Mr. Armstrong and Co. are not
>>out dropping off letters and parcels on their training
>>rides (contrary to the ads on TV today).
>
> as I recall, those rates and protocols are negotiated
> bilaterally between national postal services directly and
> multilaterally through the Universal Postal Union.

Huh. There's a body I've never heard of. Thanks. Even though
I mail things internationally, I'd never thought of this
before Mark's post.