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Postal and Delivery Services: Pricing, Productivity, Regulation and Strategy has now been published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. 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 and cost, reform within international organizations, and reform, competition law, and future technologies.

This book arises out of CRRI’s Ninth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics: held in Sorrento Italy, June 6-9, 2001. 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.

This conference was sponsored by CRRI—Center for Research in Regulated Industries, Rutgers University; Center for Risk Management and Decision Processes, University of Pennsylvania; Consignia plc; Canada Post Corporation; Deutsche Post; FedEx; La Poste; R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company; United Parcel Service; USPS; CTT Correios; Pitney Bowes; Postcomm (Postal Services Commission); PricewaterhouseCoopers; Siemens Dematic Postal Automation; United States Postal Rate Commission; Posten AB; Finland Post; Anacom – Autoridade Nacional de Comunicações (formerly ICP—Instituto das Comunicaçoes de Portugal); Haldi Associates; Linx (a division of EDS); Post Danmark; Correos y Telégrafos; Poste Italiane; DMA; National Association of Letter Carriers; New Zealand Post; Association for Postal Commerce; Venable Baetjer Howard & Civiletti; Postal Services International; Finland Ministry of Transport and Communications.

Michael A. Crew is Professor of Economics and Director of the CRRI – Center for Research in Regulated Industries at Rutgers University and editor of the Journal of Regulatory Economics and the Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy book series. Paul R. Kleindorfer is Universal Furniture Professor of Decision Sciences and Economics and co-director of the Risk Management and Decision Processes Center at University of Pennsylvania. 

The Center for Research in Regulated Industries will be hosting the Tenth Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics in Potsdam Germany on June 5-8, 2002. This will result in another volume edited by Michael A. Crew and Paul R. Kleindorfer.