7 months is only fast when you ignore the 12 months leading up to this.

> Also it applies to every country from 2021, i.e. Canada and EU will be able to set their own rates as well.

Oh, I must have misread the article, that's good to hear.

19 months is still a pretty reasonable timeframe for modifying a huge international treaty that around 200 countries are party to.

Regardless, I don't think it's fair to include the preceding 12 months; there was nothing actionable for any country to do to prepare for the changes until now. I would actually consider seven months to be impressively fast.

Yeah, I'm quite impressed by how fast and smoothly this happened. Considering practically every country in the world is party to this, and it's going to impact nearly all global mail traffic, I expected more talk and slower implementation.