Cuba proposes talks with US to resume direct mail service

Cuba has proposed that a United States government delegation visit Havana this month for a second round of talks on resuming direct postal services.



Mail service between the United States and Cuba was cancelled in 1963 as Washington tightened economic sanctions on Havana.



As a result, letters and packages now go through third countries, such as Mexico, Canada or Panama.



According to a report in the Miami Herald, Cuba proposed the talks be held on September 16 in Havana.



Talks on reopening the postal service took place in 2009 in Havana, but the Obama administration cancelled the contacts after US government sub-contractor Alan P. Gross was sentenced to 15 years in a Havana jail for delivering sophisticated communications equipment to Cuba’s tiny Jewish community.



The Cuban government claimed that Gross was involved in espionage and sought to destabilise the revolution.



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