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Urgent UPU session reaches deal to keep U.S. in U.N. postal agency

UPU Congress' consensus vote to adopt the compromise plan represented "an historical moment," the agency's chief says.

American postal customers at Union Station in Washington, D.C.
American postal customers at Union Station in Washington, D.C. (AN/Elvert Barnes)

BERN, Switzerland (AN) — The United States said it will remain in the U.N. postal agency after delegates at an emergency meeting on Wednesday agreed to a compromise plan to change international delivery rates that will add consumer costs.

The Universal Postal Union was holding only the third Extraordinary Congress in its nearly 145-year history this week to consider a demand by U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to overhaul the fees that countries sending packages must pay to countries receiving packages.

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