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The Universal Postal Union (contraction UPU; French union postale universal; English universal pos valley union) was created 1874 on suggestion by Heinrich of Stephan by 22 member countries in the city hall to the exterior being located in Berne and is thereby after the International Telecommunication Union the secondaryoldest international organization. Today this special organization of the UN with 190 member countries is the international forum for co-operation between and - companies.

The head office lies in Berne (Switzerland). From here every five years the congress of world post office is organized. General manager of the Universal Postal Union is since 1 January 2005 the Frenchman Edouard Dayan.

Of the meaning of the city Berne for the world-wide postal service the world post office monument reminds; the administration building of the association is in that Bernese world post office road.

Association purpose

The world post office contract of 1874 regulates the international cooperation of the and the basic conditions of the transnational Postverkehrs. Until today the major task of the Universal Postal Union exists in the Sicherstellung of a global, timenear feed of letters and packages over land and language borders away. The necessity for a coordinating instance like the Universal Postal Union becomes clear in view of the numbers, which describe the world-wide postal service (conditions 2003):

6 million post office employee
700,000 post offices
430 billion letters (of it 6 billion transnational)
4,4 billion packages (of it 82 million transnational)

Numerous supplementary protocols to the world post office contract were decided at the congresses of world post office. On the last congress 2004 in Bucharest the post office payment service conventions were e.g. decided, which the post office giro conventions, postal order conventions and post office cash on delivery conventions to summarize.

As world post office language of the UPU French one selected.

Congresses of world post office

1874 Berne
1947 Paris
1952 Brussels
1957 Ottawa
1964 Vienna
1969 Tokyo
1974 Lausanne
1979 Rio de Janeiro
1984 Hamburg
1989 Washington (D.C.)
1994 Seoul
1999 Peking
2004 Bucharest

President of the congresses of world post office

1947 Joseph Jean Le Mouel (France)

Directors and general managers of the international office

to 1949 Alois Muri
1950 - 1960 Dr. Fritz Hess (Switzerland)
1961 - 1966 Dr. Edouard weber (Switzerland)
1966 - 1973 Dr. Michael Rahi
1973 - 1974 Anthony Ridge
1975 - 1984 Mohamed Ibrahim Sobhi
1985 - 1995 Botto de Barros
1995 - 2005 Thomas's E. Leavy (the USA)
since 2005 Edouard Dayan (France)

Literature

Fritz vest and Hans Friedrich Leinung: 40 years execution advice of the Universal Postal Union, in: Yearbook of the Federal Post Office 1987, P. 9-100.