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Kind of a silly comment, but is this really anywhere on Earth? What about Death Valley? Antarctica? North Korea? Syria? Siberia?

I'd imagine they use the profit from domestic shipments to help subsidize more costly international ones, if it's really $3 regardless of destination.

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Global forever stamps are $1.20 at retail, so that's the upper bound on their postage expense and covers all UPU countries[1] (incl DPRK, Syria, Russia, etc). Antartica actually only requires domestic postcard rates ($0.34) as it has a domestic zip code (96598).

[1]: http://www.upu.int/en/the-upu/member-countries.html

I'm quite surprised to hear that! Thanks for sharing.

An an American living in Siberia, I can say that Siberia is pretty civilized. The government mail is pretty reliable for things that don't look "interesting". [1] I've personally received postcards from the USA without a problem. It's certainly not comparable to North Korea or Syria.

[1] The Russian post has a reputation for stealing foreign mail that looks like it might contain money, information about money, or credit cards. I haven't tried it myself: for important stuff I use FedEx or DHL.

Where exactly in Siberia?

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