International Post-GPU/UPU Central and South America
AR International post-GPU/UPU Micro- and mini-exhibits of Central and South America (v 1.1) Guatemala, Honduras, Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica Colombia & Panama, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay Brazil will be in a separate section; British Guiana (Guyana) and Surinam are in the correspond- ing colonies' sections. Finding reliable rates' sources for many of these countries has been a pain (this is the reason I haven't finished doing Brazil). For most of them, I do not have much confidence in my determination of the rates (as is apparent from the write-ups), and solicit advice, especially for airmail items. This is further complicated (or simplified) by the Postal Union of the Americas and Spain (puas). In 1911, the puaswas formed (as the South American Postal Union), initially consisting of South American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela); in 1921, the usand central American countries (Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama) joined, as did Honduras and Spain in 1926, and Canada and Haiti in 1931. The name changed to Postal Union of the Americas, Spain and Portugal (an Oxford comma would do well here) in 1991. Preferred rates were given on mail between countries in the union, usually (but not always) domestic surface rates (airmail is another kettle of fish). In those cases where the domestic 2 registration fee differed from the international registration fee, I don't know which would apply to puasmail. Consular mail (that is, mailed from a consulate or embassy) between puas members was free with respect to surface mail, but additional services (such as registration, special delivery, registration, ar) could be free or chargeable, this varying in time.
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