Quitting the Universal Postal Union is a mistake. Here’s why

Published October 18, 2018 7:27pm ET



On Wednesday, Trump administration officials told reporters that they had begun the process of withdrawing from the Universal Postal Union with the goal of making China pay its fair share of shipping costs to the U.S.

Trump is right that the regulations should be reevaluated, but threatening to pull out of the organization or worse, actually doing so, is a bad move.

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