Wenn man was in Dänemark etwas versendet und dort Porto zahlt, was verdient deutsche Post?

This question – and many other questions about international postal services – is in the World Post Treaty (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpostvertrag) regulated. In principle, under this contract, a fee is fully owned by the postal administration which it collects. For the transport of mail, however, the postal administrations pay compensation to each other, which are determined according to the weight of the delivered mail items. However, not every letter is weighed individually: mail bags and mail containers containing large quantities of mail are weighed.

The World Post Treaty is quite old; its first version dates back to 1874. In the same year the World Post Office (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltpostverein), which is still responsible for implementing the World Post Treaty and for its occasional adaptation to newer requirements.

The history of the World Post Office is closely associated with the name of the former German General Director Heinrich von Stephan (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_von_Stephan) which has played a major role in the development of the first World Post Treaty. In the World Post Treaty, the rule proposed by Heinrich von Stephan was originally that postal administrations treat each other for the treatment of cross-border letters. No Calculate fees. Heinrich von Stephan reasoned this rule with the consideration that a letter usually triggers a reply letter, which means that the volume of letters in international mail is fairly balanced. With the arrival of mass mails of commercial content, this balance of the volumes of letters in international traffic was so disturbed that compensation fees calculated according to weight had to be introduced.

These compensation fees are collected not only for mailings, but also for international parcels. It is true that developing countries and emerging countries pay only a reduced fee for the handover of postal goods. This rule is currently controversial internationally, especially with regard to China. China continues to be considered as a emerging country and is at the same time the country with the largest volume of parcel shipments in international traffic. The reduced takeover fees for the acceptance of Chinese parcels are now perceived in many places (also in the EU) as distortion of competition in favour of Chinese suppliers. There are attempts to deprive the People’s Republic of China of the post-law status of a emerging country. That would make Chinese direct deliveries a little more expensive.

Here is a link that addresses the current problem of the situation with China: https://beamberlin.com/logistics-101-universal-postal-union/