Current Directions in Postal Reform
Published on 8. October 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 506 pages
978-1-4613-7019-2 (ISBN)
Description
Current Directions in Postal Reform
brings together leading practitioners, worldwide postal administrations, and the courier industry as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers and lawyers, to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in the postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; and service standards.
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Series
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Research
Illustrations
VIII, 506 p.
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
779 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4613-7019-2 (9781461370192)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4615-4481-4
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Michael A. Crew | Paul R. Kleindorfer
Current Directions in Postal Reform
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12/2012
Springer
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Current Directions in Postal Reform
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03/2000
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Content
Content.- 1. Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation in Postal Service.- 2. Measuring the Cost of Universal Service for Posts.- 3. The Cost of Universal Service in the Postal Sector.- 4. Universal Service without a Monopoly.- 5. Worksharing, Residential Delivery, and the Future of the USO.- 6. Liberalization of the Postal Market and the Cost of the Universal Service Obligation: Some Estimates for the UK.- 7. In France, Mail Goes Where the Money and Businesses Are.- 8. Cost Estimation and Economically Efficient Prices.- 9. Simulation Modeling for Cost Estimation.- 10. Postal ABC: What are the Reasonable Expectations?.- 11. The Demand for Targeted Communication in Different Customer Groups.- 12. Technical Efficiency in CTT-Correios de Portugal.- 13. Antitrust versus Regulation Issues in the Postal Sector: Lessons from the Italian Hybrid Mail Case.- 14. Defining Postal Markets: an Antitrust Perspective.- 15. An Introduction to EC Competition Rules in the Postal Sector.- 16. Liberalizing European Postal Markets: The Advantages Of Reducing The Weight/Price Threshold.- 17. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Quiet Liberalization of the United States Postal System.- 18. Access Pricing in the Postal Sector: Complexities and Practicalities of the United States Experience.- 19. Economic Effects of an Information-Rich Mailing System Including Work Sharing.- 20. Controlling Postal Retail Transaction Costs and Improving Customer Access to Postal Products.- 21. Long-term Business Relationships between Consignor and Trucking Carrier in Japan.- 22. Strategy And The Posts: the Case of the USPS.- 23. The Current and Future Use of Mergers, Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, and Strategic Alliances in the European Postal Industry.- 24. Globalization, Posts, and the Universal Postal Union: aFunctional Critique.