UPU Parcel Post Treaty
The Universal Postal Union (UPU) parcel mail agreement of 1880 (in effect 1881), established an international postal agreement for the orderly shipment of mailed packages and parcels from one country to another according to predetermined rates.
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Famous quotes containing the words parcel, post and/or treaty:
“Have ye got the parcel there for Mrs White?
Ye haven’t! Oh, begorra!
Say it’s comin’ down tomorra—
And it might now, Michael, so it might!’”
—William Percy French (1854–1920)
“I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
Those undreamt accidents that have made me
Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
Being but a part of ancient ceremony
Notorious, till all my priceless things
Are but a post the passing dogs defile.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“No treaty is ever an impediment to a cheat.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)