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This work collects 26 selected papers from the 20th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, held in the UK under the auspices of the Center for Research and Regulated Industries. After an overview of the issue, contributors from UK and Europe address topics such as social media challenges to the entire postal industry, economic regulation in the UK postal sector, measuring consumer preference for postal services, and optimization of the US postal retail network by applying GIS and econometric tools. The book's readership includes economists and industry professionals. Crew is affiliated with Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Kleindorfer taught at the University of Pennsylvania. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Professors Crew and Kleindorfer have once again assembled a valuable collection of essays that address timely and important issues in postal sectors throughout the world. The essays employ diverse methodologies to provide useful insights about recent and likely future developments in the postal industry. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers, industry practitioners, and policymakers alike.'- David E.M. Sappington, University of Florida, USIn our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic competition, and offers expert recommendations for reshaping postal structures to strengthen their competitiveness in an electronic age.Drawn from a selection of papers presented at the 20th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics in Brighton, UK, this book showcases expert contributions on the rapidly changing postal sectors in both the United States and Europe. Topics discussed include the various financial challenges posed by decreasing demand for postal services, recent changes in how postal services are provided, and new structures and modes of operation, such as privatization, that are currently affecting the industry. Contributors offer a thorough breakdown of the issues as well as ideas for keeping the postal sector alive in a world that is growing ever more reliant on purely electronic means of communication.Economists with an interest in regulatory economics, innovation and public sector economics will find this volume useful and informative, as will institutional libraries and industry professionals.
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