Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
A Review of Efforts to Develop a New Policy Framework for Postal Services in the European Union....Pages 1-25
Deregulation of Australia’s Postal Services....Pages 27-44
The Application of Legal Safeguards Against Predation to the Postal Services Industry....Pages 45-65
Measuring the Performance of the Public Postal Service Provider in Germany....Pages 67-78
Measuring Quality of Service of International Mail....Pages 79-91
Post-Appointment Preference Shaping and Its Influence on Judicial Analysis of Economic Regulation Issues....Pages 93-108
A Consumers’ Group’s View of New Services, Quality, and Regulation....Pages 109-116
Pricing in Postal Service Under Competitive Entry....Pages 117-136
An Econometric Model of Postal Delivery....Pages 137-153
The Scope of the Reserved Area....Pages 155-164
Price Caps for Postal Service....Pages 165-180
Use of Technology Arising from Customers’ Needs....Pages 181-190
On the Structure of Inter-Firm Postal Demand....Pages 191-205
Analysis of Economies of Scale in Small Package Carrier Service in Japan....Pages 207-222
Replacement of Letter Mail by Electronic Communications to the Year 2010....Pages 223-235
Regulation of Unregulated Firms: The Postal Service and UPS....Pages 237-245
Alternative Scenarios for the Reform of Postal Services....Pages 247-267
Aggregate Letter Traffic Demand in the United Kingdom and the Economy....Pages 269-284