An obscure United Nations body is making mail from developing nations unnaturally cheap—and hurting e-commerce, manufacturing, and postal systems in industrialized countries. The Universal Postal Union is a secretive backroom club, but its missteps were born from the highest of ideals.
Most of the U.S. Postal Service's plans for surviving in the short term come down to cutting costs and not implementing the new ideas its own consultants have called for.