Recent and forthcoming changes in the regulation of postal and delivery services throughout the world will have a major impact on this important sector. The contributors to this timely book, a combination of academics and industry insiders, address the trends toward privatization and competition and illuminate the evolving economics of the sector.

Contents: Preface Foreword: Information Revolutions and Modern Postal Service James I. Campbell Jr. 1. Approaches to the USO under Entry Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer 2. Partitioning the Mailstream: Analysis of an Innovative Approach to USO Leon A. Pintsov, Andrei Obrea and Theresa Biasi 3. From the Size of the Box to the Costs of Universal Service Obligation: A Cross-Country Comparison François Boldron, Denis Joram, Lise Martin and Bernard Roy 4. A Welfare Analysis of Price Controls with End-to-End Mail and Access Services Philippe De Donder, Helmuth Cremer, Paul Dudley and Frank Rodriguez 5. Dynamics of Downstream Entry in Postal Markets Axel Gautier 6. Economies of Scale, Density and Scope in Swiss Post’s Mail Delivery Mehdi Farsi, Massimo Filippini and Urs Trinkner 7. Measuring Scale and Scope Economies with a Structural Model of Postal Delivery Michael D. Bradley, Jeff Colvin and Mary K. Perkins 8. Efficient Worksharing Discounts with Mail Heterogeneity John C. Panzar 9. Nonlinear Pricing and Worksharing in the Postal Market Etienne Billette de Villemeur, Helmuth Cremer, François Boldron and Bernard Roy 10. Efficiency Analysis of Delivery Offices in the Postal Sector Using Stochastic Frontier and Data Envelopment Analyses Alan Horncastle, David Jevons, Paul Dudley and Emmanuel Thanassoulis 11. Economic Analysis of the Efficiency of Royal Mail Units and the Implications for Regulatory Policy Richard Moriarty, Sophie Yorke, Greg Harman, John Cubbin, Meloria Meschi and Paul Smith 12. From Theory to Practice: Vertical Relations in the French Postal Market Xavier Ambrosini and Olaf Klargaard 13. Postal Deregulation and Its Impact on Postal Workers: A Canadian Union Perspective Geoff Bickerton 14. First Steps towards New Postal Economics Models for Developing Countries: Learning from the Latin American Experience José Ansón, Rudy Cuadra, Altamir Linhares, Guillermo Ronderos and Joëlle Toledano 15. The Postal Technology Market and Effects on Purchasing Strategy William J. Dowling, Robert J. Curry, Robert A.F. Reisner and Bill Worth 16. Economics of the US Postal Service Alternate Access Retail Channels Janet L. Webster, Dennis E. Stoker, Saadia Bukhari, Stephen Deering and Andrea M. Otis 17. USO Public Financing at the Crossroad between the ‘Monti Package’ and the Forthcoming Reform of the Postal Directive Alessandra Fratini and Fabio Filpo 18. Scenarios of Mail Receipt Patterns Across Generations Luis Jimenez, Anna Owsiany, and Chrystal Szeto 19. Microanalyses of Mail Demand Drivers for Large Business Customers Peter Koppe and Christian Bosch 20. Measuring the Impact of Direct Mail on the Brand Joanne McNeish 21. Consumer Preferences and Last Mile Pricing in the Postal Sector Beat Friedli, Christian Jaag, Daniel Krähenbühl, Ole Bach Nielsen, Søren-Michael Pihl and Urs Trinkner 22. Microeconomic Demand Modelling for Price Elasticities Frédérique Fève, Jean-Pierre Florens and Sophie Richard 23. US Postal Services as Composite Goods with Hedonic Properties Lawrence Fenster, Diane Monaco, Edward S. Pearsall, Charles Robinson and Spyros Xenakis Index