Book Announcement: Postal and Delivery Services

Book Announcement:
Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is published.

October 13, 2004

Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition
edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer.

Postal and Delivery Services: Delivering on Competition is published. The research contained in this book and earlier volumes of this series along with papers presented at the conferences have led the way in developing new ideas and approaches to problems benefiting postal organizations, couriers, legislators, consultants, researchers, advertisers and customers. This book deals with many innovative developments over the past two decades that have greatly changed the Postal and Delivery Sector. Legislative reform, new technologies, changes in management strategies, commercialization, greater use of economic analysis and increasing competition have transformed this sector. This is the eighth book on Postal and Delivery Services from the book series Topics on Regulatory Economics and Policy published by Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Essays include such topics as regulation and liberalization, Universal Service Obligation (USO); analysis of demand, cost and productivity; international postal policy; transition and reform issues; and human resources.

This book arises out of CRRI’s 10th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Potsdam, Germany on June 5-8, 2002. Leading practitioners, postal administrations, and the courier industry, as well as a number of regulators, academic economists, mailers, consultants, and lawyers met to examine some of the major policy and regulatory issues facing the industry. Issues addressed included international postal policy; the universal service obligation; regulation; competition, entry, and the role of scale and scope economies; the nature and role of cost analysis in postal service; productivity; interaction of law and economics; future technologies; and service standards.

The Conference was sponsored by CRRI—Center for Research in Regulated Industries, Rutgers University; University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School—Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Deutsche Post World Net; Consignia plc; United States Postal Service; Canada Post Corporation; FedEx; La Poste; R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company; United Parcel Service; CTT Correios; Pitney Bowes; Postcomm – Postal Services Commission; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Siemens Dematic Postal Automation; United States Postal Rate Commission; Posten AB ; Finland Post Corporation; Anacom – Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações; Correos y Telégrafos; EDS of Canada; Haldi Associates ; Poste Italiane Sp.A.; An Post; Canadian Union of Postal Workers; National Association of Letter Carriers; New Zealand Post; Sidley Austin Brown and Wood LLP; Association for Postal Commerce; and Venable, Baetjer, Howard & Civiletti.