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- Addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services through the world
- Analyzes and advances new directions for public policy shift in postal delivery?
- Provides perspectives from an international panel of academics, industry researchers, and senior industry management
Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy (TREP)
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Table of contents (24 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The industry is reacting to a state of near crisis and is implementing different drastic changes. The European Commission and member States are still wrestling with the problem of how to implement entry liberalization into postal markets, how to address digital competition, and how to maintain the universal service obligation (USO). The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 in the U.S. has perhaps created and exacerbated the problems faced by USPS.
Digitalisation, technological development and online platforms are strongly affecting both the way postal and delivery operators are managing their services as well as their role on the market. Strong emphasis was attributed to the assets of Postal Operators (POs) and their added value in the digital age as well as on new business strategies.This volume presents original essays by prominent researchers in the field, selected and edited from papers presented at this year’s 26th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Split, Croatia, from May 30- June 2, 2018.Topics addressed by this volume include quality of service, last mile solutions, and competition in the liberalized market. This book will be a useful tool not only for graduate students and professors, but also for postal administrations, consulting firms, and federal government departments.
Editors and Affiliations
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Florence School of Regulation – Communications and Media, European University Institute, Fiesole, Italy
Pier Luigi Parcu
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School of Public Policy, UMBC, Baltimore, USA
Timothy J. Brennan
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Rutgers Business School, Newark, USA
Victor Glass
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Business and Regulatory Strategies in the Postal Sector
Editors: Pier Luigi Parcu, Timothy J. Brennan, Victor Glass
Series Title: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02937-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-02936-4Published: 27 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-02937-1Published: 13 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-7468
Series E-ISSN: 2730-7476
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 338
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 21 illustrations in colour
Topics: Industrial Organization, Economic Policy, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy