The Universal Postal Union has an improved and updated Web site. Also links to postal administrations' web sites , postal addressing conventions for UPU members, and other interesting places. An excellent site with links to postal administration web sites is that maintained by Fabio Alarici . This site has just been updated and now included their mailing addresses and e-mail addresses where known. Alarici rates the quality of the web sites with stars and comments.
Web site contains much information pertaining to exhibiting on the international scale.
You can read the FIP's regulations for international shows, see a list of their officers, the national federations that belong to the FIP and other data. Also has information on their web site evaluation program. The CIA World Factbook is online and has a wide variety of information about the present-day countries of the world. Also eight appendixes of additional information. The CIA home page is an interesting browse, too.