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Originally Posted by Kavy
Here's a question.
If i send a letter anywhere international, it costs $1.85.
I understand the volume they may deal with, but I wasted more then $1.85 dealing with the worker at the post office as I don't carry these stamps at home.
How do other nation's post offices get paid for this letter? Does Canada Post split the $1.85 with the incoming post office and any other organization that deals with the letter in-between? Or is there some sort of horse trade where national post offices don't charge each other for incoming postage?
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Kind of like this. Its actually similar to the way ISPs manage traffic between themselves.
If you have an annual surplus of mail (based on weight) going from one country to another, then the originating country's postal service pays the destination's postal service 'terminal dues' based on the difference. It is based how much mail is sent between the countries in a given year, with some countries have special arrangements, like the EU/US and US/Canada, for example.