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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION

  • Convention and final protocol signed at Rome May 26, 1906[1]
  • Ratified and approved by the Postmaster General of the United States October 13, 1906
  • Approved by the President of the United States October 16, 1906
  • Entered into force October 1, 1907
  • Terminated by convention of November 30, 1920[2]
35 Stat. 1639; Post Office Department print

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Convention

Universal Postal Convention concluded between Germany and German Protectorates, United States of America and the Island Possessions of the United States of America, Argentine Republic, Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chili, Chinese Empire, Republic of Colombia, Congo Free State, Empire of Corea, Republic of Costa Rica, Crete, Republic of Cuba, Denmark and Danish Colonies, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and Spanish Colonies, Ethiopian Empire, France, Algeria, French Colonies and Protectorates of Indo-China, the whole of the other French Colonies, Great Britain and various British Colonies, British India, the Commonwealth of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, British Colonies of South Africa, Greece, Guatemala, Republic of Hayti, Republic of Honduras, Hungary, Italy and the Italian Colonies, Japan, Republic of Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Norway, Republic of Panama, Paraguay, Netherlands, the Dutch Colonies, Peru, Persia, Portugal and Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, Kingdom of Siam, Sweden, Switzerland, Tunis, Turkey, Uruguay, and United States of Venezuela.

The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the above-named countries, being assembled in Congress at Rome, by virtue of Article 25 of the Universal Postal Convention concluded at Washington on the 15th of June, 1897,[3] have, by common consent and subject to ratification, revised the said Convention in conformity with the following stipulations:


  1. For text of regulations for execution of the convention, see 35 Stat. 1679.
  2. Post, vol. 2.
  3. Ante, p. 206.
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