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How do you know definitely it's USPS losing your packages? A package from Germany to USPS exchanges hands with many parties: it first goes through a system of Universal Postal Union before it's handed to USPS, and has to clear customs before it leaves Germany and also before it enters the US. Germany to EU is regional delivery and goes through different routes.

He should publish some tracking information to back up his claim. At least the shipping information will show dates and locations of the packages where they get lost or delayed. The dates can be used to identify weather patterns and see if weather is a bias. The midwest and northeast has had some pretty rough winter this year.

A responsible person should be a lot more careful before attacking someone else, particularly if you already know that a person's religion is a very personal thing. He hasn't even shown that USPS workers are religious to begin with, and whether it's the religious ones or atheists ones losing the packages. Why shouldn't an atheist USPS worker embezzle the shoes? It's an amusing artifact for them to steal and it would have no value to religious ones. He jumps the gun and accuses the religious ones of losing atheist branded packages. That's irresponsibility.

He just makes a cleverly drawn poster and made you believe he put the effort to conduct a study. He's just trying to raise a controversy.

I have six letters for you:

• ITU
• UPU

Both the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunication Union are specialised agencies of the UN. And yet, it appears that the mail still gets through, and I can phone someone virtually anywhere in the world.

I suggest that you need to learn a little bit more about "the UN" before you pass judgment on such a huge organisation and all its parts.Of course it isn't perfect. But the ITU and UPU both do their jobs, and they do them without political interference. I would rather the DNS system be looked after by the ITU than the US government (who does interfere with the working of the relevant organisation).

(Of course, I'm not the first to suggest ITU. I suggest you do a web search for other opinions.)

The UN already has the Universal Postal Union and the International Telecommunications Union, which do for post offices, telephony, and radio roughly what ICANN does for the Internet. The ITU does a decent job, assigning country codes, negotiating the rules which interconnect phone systems across borders, and keeping radio broadcasters from conflicting. Nobody thinks about the Universal Postal Union much, but the fact that you can mail a letter to almost any country on earth didn't happen by accident.

Much of what the UN really does is to act as an umbrella organization for the dull and boring mechanics of infrastructure coordination. The diplomatic level gets all the attention, but there's necessary grunt work going on in the background.

Is the ITU considered to be part of the UN by you?

I personally think they would do a good job...

What about the UPU (formally IPU)?

Both are older than the UN (being established in the 18th Century), but, both are part of the UN system now. Oh, and what about the IAEA? FAO? ILO? WMO? All these are part of the UN as well. I think they seemed to have worked out reasonably well, though, of course, not perfect.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that the UN is only the politicised bits.

The Universal Postal Union has been around since 1874, ensuring that post can be mailed around the world without issue.

The UPU has 190 member countries, and those countries submit mailing information to the UPU, making it the most extensive repository of postal information on earth.

If you are looking for information on addresses, I would start (and probably stop) with the UPU.

The Universal Postal Union has been around since 1874, ensuring that post can be mailed around the world without issue.

The UPU has 190 member countries, and those countries submit mailing information to the UPU, making it the most extensive repository of postal information on earth.

If you are looking for information on addresses, I would start (and probably stop) with the UPU.

You can get the addressing standard and the worldwide database from the Universal Postal Union.

You can get the addressing standard and the worldwide database from the Universal Postal Union.

Try the Universal Postal Union, specifically documents they have on properly addressing international addresses.

Also, this looks interesting: International Address Standard UPU S42-1

(BTW, I know nothing about this stuff, but I found it via Wikipedia, which these days is proving itself more useful than Google.)

This is as if you said that US is oposing the war in Iraq, because UN, located in New York, US, is oposing it.

UPU is an international organization that coordinates the work between posts. They, for example, govern the compensation between post organizations when sending international mail (did you know that the postage is originally intended for the post organization actually delivering the mail, not the one accepting it?)

And yeah, post.ch already exists.