Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives /

This book brings together leading practitioners, world-wide postal administrations, and the express industry, as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, and lawyers to examine some of the important policy and regulatory issues facing the industry. Issues addressed include international...

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Main Author: Crew, Michael A.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Kleindorfer, Paul R.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 1995.
Series:Topics in regulatory economics and policy ; 19.
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Summary:This book brings together leading practitioners, world-wide postal administrations, and the express industry, as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, and lawyers to examine some of the important policy and regulatory issues facing the industry. Issues addressed include international postal policy, including the role of the Universal Postal Union; regulation and terminal dues; competition, entry and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in postal service; productivity; and service standards. This volume follows two earlier volumes by the same editors, Competition and Innovation in Postal Services (1991); and Regulation and the Nature of Postal and Delivery Services (1992).
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xvii, 284 pages)
ISBN:9781461527848 (electronic bk.)
1461527848 (electronic bk.)