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...

Chapter 1. Postal and Electronic Communications services: together again? -- Chapter 2. Potential Insights for U.S. USO from recent Federal Communication Commission’s Broadband Auctions -- Chapter 3. Postal Services. Quo Vadis? -- Chapter 4. How the fragmentation of the postal supply chain...

Chapter 1 - Competitive strategies of marketplaces vis-à-vis logistic choices: issues for competition policy (Pier Luigi Parcu) -- Chapter 2 - Lessons from the Experience of Telecommunications Regulation for Regulation in the EU Package Delivery Industry, with Focus on Access Regulation (Debra...

The Roots of Political Gridlock and Foreshadowing a Way out -- Part I: Respect: Uncovering the Wisdom of America's Ideologies -- Libertarianism: Centralization can Lead to Serfdom -- Conservatism: Cultural Dissolution can Lead to Despotism -- Liberalism: Economic Instability and Exclusion can...

Universal postal service as a business opportunity -- Designation Of A Universal Service Provider In The EU Should One Size Fit All -- E-commerce parcel delivery, the unwanted guest at the USO table? An empirical study covering ten markets in Europe -- Is the universal service for “letters”...

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...

The book addresses the most recent challenges faced by the postal and delivery sector. This book includes original essays by prominent researchers and practitioners in the field of postal and delivery economics, originally presented at the 28th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held...