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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION

• Convention and final protocol signed at Vienna July 4, 1891^[1]
• Ratified and approved by the Postmaster General of the United States May 24, 1892
• Approved by the President of the United States May 24, 1892
• Entered into force July 1, 1892
• Terminated by convention of June 15, 1897^[2]

28 Stat. 1078; Post Office Department print

 

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Convention

Universal Postal Convention concluded between Germany and the German Protectorates, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chili, the Republic of Colombia, the Independent State of Congo, the Republic of Costa Rica, Denmark and the Danish Colonies, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and the Spanish Colonies, France and the French Colonies, Great Britain and various British Colonies, the British Colonies of Australasia, Canada and British India, Greece, Guatemala, the Republic of Haiti, the Kingdom of Hawaii, the Republic of Honduras, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Nicaragua, Norway, Paraguay, the Netherlands and the Netherlands Colonies, Peru, Persia, Portugal and the Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, Salvador, Servia, the Kingdom of Siam, the South African Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, the Regency of Tunis, Turkey, Uruguay, and the United States of Venezuela.

The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries above enumerated, being assembled in Congress at Vienna, by virtue of Article 19 of the Universal Postal Convention concluded at Paris on the 1st of June 1878,^[3] have by common consent, and subject to ratification, revised said Convention, as well as the Additional Act relating thereto concluded

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1. For text of regulations for execution of the convention, see 28 Stat. 1102.
2. Post, p. 206.
3. Ante, p. 51.

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