Saudi Arabia to Restore Postal Service to Qatar Amid Rift - Bloomberg:
Saudi Arabia and Egypt are resuming postal service to Qatar -- frozen during a diplomatic rift that’s lasted nearly three years -- following a similar move by the United Arab Emirates.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the move indicated a broader mending of ties between the states, mired since June 2017 in a dispute that’s hurt trade and split the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council at a time of heightened tensions with Iran.
“The decision by Saudi Arabia to resume international postal exchanges with Qatar via Oman shows that countries are taking a constructive approach to this matter,” a spokesperson for the UN’s Universal Postal Union said Monday.
Saudi Post will resume mail service to Qatar from Tuesday, a spokesman for the company said. Egypt restored it from Feb. 17, according to messages sent by the countries to the Universal Postal Union for global distribution to postal operators. Both countries, like the U.A.E., will be routing mail through Oman; there are no direct flights between the countries and Qatar.
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