When you post a letter internationally, you pay postage to the postal service of the country where the letter is sent from. For instance, if I send a letter from Britain to France, I pay for a Royal Mail stamp, so the British postal service gets paid to process the delivery of the letter. When the letter reaches France, the French postal service will have to process the letter and get it delivered to its final destination. Would the French postal service get any reimbursement? Or do all countries’ postal services just process international letters for free for each other?
Amanda Chan
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