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Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age (Hardcover)
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Reinventing the Postal Sector in an Electronic Age (Hardcover)
Series: Advances in Regulatory Economics series
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This compilation of original essays by an international cast of
economists, regulators and industry practitioners analyzes some of
the major issues now facing postal and delivery services throughout
the world as competition from information and communication
technologies (ICT) has increased. Competition has become
increasingly important in the postal sector for some time in the
form of alternative entrants providing mail delivery. However, the
competition from ICT in the form of email and instant messaging,
the Internet, Facebook and other forms of social networking and
portable wireless devices such as the iPad and Kindle may be even
more significant. Mail volumes are falling and the economies of
scale that have made possible daily deliveries to every address are
being eroded. This book assesses volume these declines resulting
from this so-called `eSubstituion' and looks at the ways the postal
sector can adapt to the rapid changes resulting from ICT. The
impact of electronic invoicing on transactions mail, and the impact
on bulk mail of electronic forms of advertising are examined.
Strategies, including pricing and access policies, are discussed in
the context of the increasing impact of ICT. A rethinking of the
role of mail in an electronic age is taking place and this book
provides the cutting-edge of this rethinking and the attempts of
POs to reinvent themselves while continuing to meet the public's
expectation of continuing ubiquitous daily deliveries of
traditional mail products. Undergraduate and postgraduate students
and researchers in regulation, competition law, innovation and
public sector economics along with institutional libraries and
industry professionals will find this volume informative and
useful.
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