Universal Postal Union
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The Universal Postal Union is a specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It has 192 member stat
The UPU Monument (Weltpostdenkmal) in Bern, bronze and granite, by René de Saint-Marceaux (1909), the five continents join to transmit messages around the globe, later adopted (1967) as the organization's logo
Heinrich von Stephan, German Postmaster-General and founder of the General Postal Union
100 years of UPU commemorated on a US postage stamp
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An international organization, also known as an international institution or intergovernmental organization, is an association of states established by a treaty or other type of instrument governed by
Universal Postal Union
…has 192 member states and is headquartered in Bern, Switzerland. Established in 1874 as the General Postal Union, the UPU is among the oldest extant intergovernmental organizations. It sought to standardize international mail delivery by establishing a uniform postal rate and equal treatment between domestic and foreign mail. The…
The offices of the United Nations in Geneva (Switzerland), which is the city that hosts the highest number of international organizations in the world