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GENEVA (AP) No international letters, no international packages: A top official with a 192-country postal union says thats what Americans can expect if the Trump administration goes through with plans to pull out of an international postal treaty over concerns about China.
Pascal Clivaz, deputy director-general of the Switzerland-based Universal Postal Union, says the agency reached out quickly to U.S. officials after receiving a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week announcing Washingtons plan to pull out of the union in a year if the treaty isnt renegotiated.
The U.S. says its willing to renegotiate. But the threat is the latest sign of U.S. President Donald Trumps go-it-alone approach to many issues, from the environment to trade to the Iran nuclear deal.
It will have dramatic consequences for American consumers. It will cost them enormously. They will be all alone against all the countries of the world, Clivaz told The Associated Press on Friday. They wont even be able to send (a package) to a neighboring country. Its an accord that links everybody.
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kairos12
(12,862 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)Initech
(100,081 posts)They're isolated and alone, so therefore the whole country must be isolated and alone. God damn them.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)violetpastille
(1,483 posts)I've been feeling this since January 2018. It's been harder and more expensive to ship internationally via USPS.
Now the possibility that it will be impossible?
What do you suggest as countermeasure on an individual level?
In It to Win It
(8,254 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)MontanaMama
(23,322 posts)USPS is the only way I can ship the product we manufacture at our family business to customers that live outside of North America. Everything that tRump touches turns to shit. No exceptions.
spanone
(135,844 posts)In It to Win It
(8,254 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)Lars39
(26,109 posts)Right.
I hate this despicable administration.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)tRump is isolating the U.S. so that he can exercise control without interference.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Will this only affect the postal service or will this affect courier services like FedEx, UPS and others? If so, businesses aren't going to be too thrilled about this.