Return to sender: Postal union warns of fallout

-Source-The Daily Times- No international letters no international packages: A top official with a 192-country postal union says thats what Americans can expect if the Trump administration goes through with plans to pull out of an international postal treaty over concerns about China. Pascal Clivaz deputy director-general of the Switzerland-based Universal Postal Union says the agency reached out quickly to U.S. officials after receiving a letter from U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo this week announcing Washingtons plan to pull out of the union in a year if the treaty isnt renegotiated. The U.S. says its willing to renegotiate. But the threat is the latest sign of U.S. President Donald Trumps go-it-alone approach to many issues from the environment to trade to the Iran nuclear deal. It will have dramatic consequences for American consumers. It will cost them enormously. They will be all alone against all the countries of the world Clivaz told The Associated Press on Friday. They wont even be able to send (a package) to a neighboring country. Its an accord that links everybody. Word of the planned pullout is the latest facet of Washingtons multi-level trade dispute with Beijing. The U.S. administration says the treaty allows China to ship packages to the U.S. at discounted rates at the expense of American businesses.