Who pays the Post Office for...?

Who pays the Post Office for delivering mail that was sent from another country?



In other words, If I mail a letter from Thailand to an address in the United States, the postage was paid in Thailand. Yet, the U.S. Postal Service delivers the letter in the states. Do they get compensated for it?



What about the reverse? If a letter is sent from the United States to Japan, who pays for the delivery process that occurs in Japan? Is Japan compensated by the U.S. Postal Service?

Is there an international system for this?Who pays the Post Office for...?
Very interesting question.



The mail is delivered free. That is the reason people pay so much more for overseas mailing. Let me explain...



If someone in Thailand mails a letter to the US, that person will pay a lot more for the overseas postage. Only part of that increased fee goes to pay for the shipping of that letter. The rest of the money that fee generates goes toward paying for letters and packages that are sent TO Thailand from other nations, and which the Thai post office delivers for free.



And most every other nation works the same way. So, if you mail something overseas, part of the fee you pay goes toward paying the post office to deliver mail that comes to your country from other nations.



In effect, people who mail thing overseas pay for the delivery costs of people mailing to their country. Make sense?



Really nice question.Who pays the Post Office for...?
The delivery people have figured out an agreement between themselves.