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Competition and Innovation in Postal Services

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Michael A. Crew

    1. Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

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  2. Paul R. Kleindorfer

    1. The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy (TREP, volume 8)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Rowland Hill’s Contribution as an Economist

    • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Martin J. Daunton
    Pages 1-16

  3. INTERNATIONAL POSTAL REFORM: An Application of the Principles of Rowland Hill to the International Postal System

    • James I. Campbell Jr., Roger Tabor
    Pages 17-36

  4. Peak-Load Pricing of Postal Service and Competition

    • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer, David de Meza
    Pages 37-60

  5. Assessing the Welfare Effects of Entry into Letter Delivery

    • Ian Dobbs, Paul Richards, Norman Ireland
    Pages 61-91

  6. Delivering Letters: Should it be Decriminalized?

    • Saul Estrin, David de Meza, Charles K. Rowley
    Pages 93-113

  7. A Comparative Analysis of Wage Premiums and Industrial Relations in the British Post Office and the United States Postal Service

    • Michael L. Wachter, Jeffrey M. Perloff, Frank Rodriguez
    Pages 115-140

  8. Productivity and Cost Measurement for the United States Postal Service: Variations Among Regions

    • J. R. Norsworthy, Show-Ling Jang, Wei-Ming Shi, Thomas A. Abbott, Donald J. O’Hara
    Pages 141-175

  9. Postal Newspaper Delivery and Diversity of Opinions

    • Ulrich Stumpf, Frank A. Scott Jr.
    Pages 177-190

  10. Competition in Postal Service

    • Roger Sherman, Michael R. Frierman
    Pages 191-218

  11. Is Postal Service a Natural Monopoly?

    • John C. Panzar, Michael Waterson
    Pages 219-231

  12. Postal Rate-Making Procedures and Outcomes in Various Countries

    • Robert Albon, John Haldi
    Pages 233-252

  13. Postal Service and Less Developed Countries

    • David E. Treworgy, James A. Waddell, Robert M. Pike
    Pages 253-273

  14. Competitive Strategy for New Zealand Post

    • Elmar Toime, Ian Steele
    Pages 275-285
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About this book

Any Chainnan of the British Post Office dwells in the shadow of Rowland Hill, and, if he were an honest man, he probably from time to time, while singing the praises of Rowland Hill, as is his due, thinks a silent thought of sympathy for his predecessor Colonel Maberly, the head of the Post Office, the Champion of established orthodoxy, the leader of the Professionals, who had to endure the irresistible force of Hill's arguments combined with his skills as a pamphleteer, agitator, and political propagandist. My favorite passage of the book Royal Mail by Martin Daunton (1985) shows how much the Post Office of the day needed a Rowland Hill to challenge Colonel Maberly and all that he stood for. I quote from a passage describing how the Colonel, when he arrived at about 11:00 a.m. and while enjoying his breakfast, listened to his private secretary reading the morning's correspondence. Daunton records: The Colonel, still half engaged with his private correspondence, would hear enough to make him keep up a rumring commentary of disparaging grunts, "Pooh! stuff! upon my soul!" etc.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Management, Rutgers University, Newark, USA

    Michael A. Crew

  • The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Paul R. Kleindorfer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Competition and Innovation in Postal Services

  • Editors: Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer

  • Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-4818-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9147-0Published: 31 March 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-5127-4Published: 08 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-4818-5Published: 29 June 2013

  • Series ISSN: 2730-7468

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 286

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Public Economics, Management

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