a Postal service All postal services, whose scope is determined
by the bodies of the Union. The main
obligations of postal services are to satisfy
certain social and economic objectives of
member countries, by ensuring the collection,
sorting, transmission and delivery of postal
items.
b Member country A country that fulfils the conditions of
article 2 of the Constitution.
с Single postal The obligation upon the contracting parties to
territory the UPU Acts to provide for the reciprocal
(one and the same exchange of letter-post items, including
postal territory) freedom of transit, and to treat postal items
in transit from other countries like their own
postal items, without discrimination.
d Freedom of Obligation for intermediate postal
transit administrations to transport postal items
passed on to them in transit by another UPU
postal administration, providing similar
treatment to that given to domestic items.
e Letter-post item As described in the Convention.
f International Postal operations or services regulated by the
postal service Acts; set of these operations or services.
Article III. (Article 22 amended) Acts of the Union