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December 5, 2001
The Rise of Global Delivery Services: A Case Study in International Regulatory Reform
by James I. Campbell Jr. Cloth bound. 768 pages. ISBN 0-9711864-0-5.
An account of how courier and express companies used legislative advocacy, litigation, public relations, public affairs, and scholastic appeal to encourage regulatory reforms in the United States, Europe, and intergovernmental organizations during the last quarter of the twentieth century, opening the way for development of global delivery services integrating both private carriers and leading public post offices. An introductory chapter provides a brief account of the evolution of international delivery services. Nine public policy debates are described in detail: U.S. postal monopoly and couriers, international excess baggage rights, U.S. customs restrictions, European postal monopolies, international customs reform, international remail, European postal reform, U.S. postal reform, and reform of the Universal Postal Union.
In each public policy discussion, The Rise of Global Delivery Services summarizes the course of events to early 2001 and reproduces major policy presentations from the period. The account of European postal reform during the 1980s includes a copy of the European Express Organisation's 1990 submission on European postal policy, referred to in some official circles with a mixture of dismay and respect as the shadow green paper. The section on international customs includes the International Courier Conference's 1986 submission to the Customs Cooperation Council (now World Customs Organization), known in the express industry as the blue book; this paper ultimately led to adoption of international guidelines for customs treatment of express consignments. Most issues addressed also relate to the operations of public postal services. The first section describes the three-year effort by couriers in the mid 1970s to win an exception from American postal monopoly law. The last section describes long running, but still unsuccessful, efforts by courier and express companies to transform international postal conventions into a commercially neutral framework for global delivery services.
By providing an panorama of twenty-five years, The Rise in Global Delivery Services also strives to give the reader a broad understanding of the tactics and strategies which animated the legal and public affairs campaigns of the international courier and express industry. In October 1990, the president of the International Post Corporation accused private delivery services of perhaps the most effective form of competition that exists, a public affairs campaign that acts with a dedication and a passion to ensure that the way back for the post office will be severely restricted by the legislative and regulatory process. This book suggests that, on the contrary, the industry's policy vision was both more principled and more constructive than appreciated by its opponents and that that, indeed, was its principal strength.
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