The postal and delivery sector has been the subject of considerable interest in recent years. This Handbook brings together a number of contributions directed at understanding developments in the field of postal reform. The authors review the experience and plans of individual countries to...

Worldwide, postal and delivery economics has attracted considerable interest. Numerous questions have arisen, including the role of regulation, funding the Universal Service Obligation, postal reform in Europe, Asia and North America, the future of national postal operators, demand and pricing...

1. Difficulties of Deregulation When Wage Costs are the Major Cost -- 2. Estimation of the Potential Impact of Cross-Border Liberalization -- 3. A Critique of the Theory of Incentive Regulation -- 4. Preparing the Postal Service’s Rate Structures for Competition -- 5. Regulatory and Governance...