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UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION
- Convention and final protocol signed at Paris June 1, 1878[1]
- Ratified and approved by the Postmaster General of the United States August 13, 1878
- Approved by the President of the United States August 13, 1878
- Entered into force April 1, 1879
- Modified by additional act of March 21, 1885[2]
- Terminated by convention of July 4,1891[3]
20 Stat. 734
[TRANSLATION]
Universal Postal Union Concluded Between Germany, the Argentine Republic, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Brazil, Denmark and the Danish Colonies, Egypt, Spain and the Spanish Colonies, the United States of North America, France and the French Colonies, Great Britain and certain British Colonies, British India, Cananda, Greece, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, Mexico, Montenegro, Norway, the Netherlands and the Netherland Colonies, Peru, Persia, Portugal and the Portuguese Colonies, Roumania, Russia, Servia, Salvador, Sweden, Switzerland, and Turkey.
Convention
The undersigned, plenipotentiaries of the Governments of the countries above enumerated, being assembled in Congress at Paris, by virtue of Article 18 of the Treaty constituting the General Postal Union, concluded at Berne on the 9th of October, 1874,[4] have, by mutual agreement, and subject to ratification, revised the said Treaty, conformably to the following stipulations:
Article 1
The countries between which the present Convention is concluded, as well as those which may join it hereafter, form, under the title of Universal Postal
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