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Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives

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  • © 1995

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Editors:
  1. Michael A. Crew

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

  2. Paul R. Kleindorfer

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

Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy (TREP, volume 19)

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xiii • We have almost the cheapest letter price in the OEeD. • We've quadrupled the retail outlets where you can buy stamps, but closed three quarters of our Post Offices. On time delivery is better than 97%. • The workforce has been reduced by 40%, with a 25% increase in volumes over the period. Real unit costs, measured by total real expenditure divided by total volumes, have been reduced by over 20%. What do these results and achievements mean for policy setters around the world? In particular, do these results for New Zealand Post prove that it is a commercial business, and what are the lessons for other postal businesses? Market Forces New Zealand Post presently has a limited letter monopoly, a 45 cent letter price against an 80 cent competitive floor price. The existence of this level of protection somehow negates the company's commercial achievements. The combination of high efficiency and low prices cannot persuade everyone that the results are not my view, are the only ones that can solely monopoly driven. Market forces, in answer my question: is New Zealand Post a commercial organization? We need the test offree and open competition to see whether we've got the business formula right. Before advancing this argument, which in essence is the case for deregulation, it may be useful to distinguish between market behavior and Post behavior.

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. A Review of Efforts to Develop a New Policy Framework for Postal Services in the European Union

    • James I. Campbell Jr.
    Pages 1-25

  3. Deregulation of Australia’s Postal Services

    • Maurice C. Castro
    Pages 27-44

  4. The Application of Legal Safeguards Against Predation to the Postal Services Industry

    • William E. Kovacic
    Pages 45-65

  5. Measuring the Performance of the Public Postal Service Provider in Germany

    • Heinz Hofmann
    Pages 67-78

  6. Measuring Quality of Service of International Mail

    • Thomas Grzesiak, Thomas Reenberg
    Pages 79-91

  7. Post-Appointment Preference Shaping and Its Influence on Judicial Analysis of Economic Regulation Issues

    • William E. Kovacic
    Pages 93-108

  8. A Consumers’ Group’s View of New Services, Quality, and Regulation

    • Colin J. Mitchell
    Pages 109-116

  9. Pricing in Postal Service Under Competitive Entry

    • Michael A. Crew, Paul R. Kleindorfer
    Pages 117-136

  10. An Econometric Model of Postal Delivery

    • Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin
    Pages 137-153

  11. The Scope of the Reserved Area

    • Ian Reay
    Pages 155-164

  12. Price Caps for Postal Service

    • Walpurga A. K. Speckbacher
    Pages 165-180

  13. Use of Technology Arising from Customers’ Needs

    • Hannu Tuominen
    Pages 181-190

  14. On the Structure of Inter-Firm Postal Demand

    • Toru Azumi
    Pages 191-205

  15. Analysis of Economies of Scale in Small Package Carrier Service in Japan

    • Toru Azumi, Ken Umemura
    Pages 207-222

  16. Replacement of Letter Mail by Electronic Communications to the Year 2010

    • Heikki Nikali
    Pages 223-235

  17. Regulation of Unregulated Firms: The Postal Service and UPS

    • E. Rand Costich, W. Gail Willette
    Pages 237-245

  18. Alternative Scenarios for the Reform of Postal Services

    • Helmuth Cremer, Marc De Rycke, André Grimaud
    Pages 247-267

  19. Aggregate Letter Traffic Demand in the United Kingdom and the Economy

    • John Nankervis, Frank Rodriguez
    Pages 269-284
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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

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives

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

  • Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2784-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1995

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9514-0Published: 30 November 1994

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6203-6Published: 08 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-2784-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 2730-7468

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 284

  • Topics: Industrial Organization, Microeconomics, Management

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