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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION

• Convention and final protocol signed at Washington June 15, 1897^[1]
• Ratified and approved by the Postmaster General of the United States November 16, 1897
• Approved by the President of the United States November 16, 1897
• Entered into force January 1, 1899
• Terminated by convention of May 26, 1906^[2]

30 Stat. 1629; Post Office Department print

 

[TRANSLATION]

Universal Postal Convention concluded between Germany and the German Protectorates, The Greater Republic of Central America, the United States of America, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, The Empire of China, the Republic of Colombia, the Independent State of Congo, the Kingdom of Korea, the Republic of Costa Rica, Denmark and the Danish Colonies, the Dominican Republic, Egypt, Ecuador, Spain and the Spanish Colonies, France, the French Colonies, Great Britain and various British Colonies, British India, the British Colonies of Australasia, Canada, the British Colonies of South Africa, Greece, Guatemala, the Republic of Haiti, the Republic of Hawaii, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Liberia, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, the Orange Free State, Paraguay, the Netherlands, the Netherlands Colonies, Peru, Persia, Portugal and the Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, 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 Washington, by virtue of Article 25 of the Universal Postal Convention concluded at Vienna on

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1. For text of regulations for execution of the convention, see 30 Stat. 1655.
2. Post, p. 492.

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