The upcoming UPU Congress in Dubai has the very important task of approving proposals that will further modernize and integrate the way postal operators pay each other for the handling and delivery of international mail.
The make-up of the mail is changing rapidly, calling for agile, adaptative changes in the way the handling and delivery of international postal items are remunerated. This is critical to ensuring the sustainable provision of universal postal services, both by origin and destination postal operators designated by their governments to uphold the service through the UPU’s network – also known as designated operators.
International letter-post flows, once mainly constituted of documents, have witnessed a shift towards items containing goods as consumers around the globe engage more in cross-border e-commerce. (....)