"World Postal Association"

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The World Postal Organization (also called the Universal Postal Organization; in French: Union Postale Universelle; in the acronym: UPO, in Hebrew: Idoo) is an international organization that coordinates the postal policy between the member countries and hence the international postal movement. Each member state agrees, in joining the Association, to a system of conditions for its obligations in the international postal system. The World Postal Union headquarters is located in Bern, Switzerland. Today the union is an agency of the United Nations.

History of History

Before the foundation of the World Postal Union, every country in the world had a separate treaty with any other country she wanted to send or receive international mail. By the U.S. Post Office in 1863, the Paris International Mail Conference, attended by 15 countries from Europe and America. The participants were unable to reach an agreement regarding international email arrangements. In 1874, following the Paris conference, Heinrich von Stephen, a senior German postal service official, guidelines for the World Mail Association. The Swiss government convened an international conference in the city of Bern on 15 September 1874, attended by 22 countries. On 9 October 1874, the Bern Convention in which it was decided to establish the union. The first name of the Association was the General Mail Association. In 1878, the organization renamed the World Postal Union. The World Postal Union is the second international organization in history, after the International Telecommunication Association founded in 1865. The day of the Association (9 October) was celebrated until today as the World Post Day. After the foundation of the United Nations, the World Postal Union became an agency within the United Nations.

Activity
In 1969, the Association established a new method for borrowing funds between corporate countries, in accordance with the difference between the total weight of postal mail between the countries. These payments were called “finally.” Since this agreement influenced the delivery of lunar (heavy weight in relation to letter exchanges), the World Postal Association established a new “end” method, implemented in 1991.

The Association stipulated that (1) should be a uniform, more or less price, to send a letter in the mail, anywhere in the world; (2) the postal authorities must give equal treatment to international and local mail; (3) each country should gain its fees that it heights for international mail.

One of the results of the World Postal Union Convention was that the need to paste on international mail in the stamps of any country through which the post office should have passed on its way to its destination. The World Postal Union Convention states that all member states will respect the stamps of other member states, according to international mail on their way to their behalf.

The new method separates letters and permits to countries that spend at least 150 tons of mail a year. For countries with less mail, the fixed price remains. The United States, for its part, reached a separate agreement to "Final Golia" with thirteen European and Canadian countries, which includes a separate price for all mail and price by weight.

The Association maintains a system of international response vouchers in all member countries.

Member States

United Nations member states can all join the World Postal Union. The 193 U.N. companies are members of the Association, to remove the countries: Andorra, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau, who have not yet established their membership in the Association. The newest company in the Association is South Sudan, which joined it on October 4, 2011. However, countries that are not members of the United Nations can join the World Postal Union, to the extent that two-thirds of the Association approve their request. For example, the Vatican is a member of the World Mail Association, even though we don’t owe it