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"The monopoly-supported universal service obligation (USO) is usually defended on the grounds that the monopoly allows for cross-subsidy in letter services that in turn allows universal access to a service of great importance to all. The author argues that letter delivery (as opposed to other services that may be provided by post offices) is not in universal demand in poor countries, that the size of the market in developing countries is such that USOs could not be met under the monopoly model, and that the monopoly carries heavy costs for sector development and consumer welfare. He proposes in the place of the postal USO a competitive approach involving universal access to a range of services that poor people have a need to access. Regarding reform of the incumbent, the author takes a preliminary first cut at examining the statistical relationship between postal performance (as measured by letters per capita allowing for income per capita), trust in the postal service, and postal efficiency, and finds a significant link between the three. The results suggest that reforms that improve postal efficiency and trust in the postal network will improve the performance of the postal network. The author suggests that there may be better uses of cross-subsidy from within the sector and government subsidy from without than supporting the inefficient delivery of a service rarely used by poor people. "--World Bank web site.
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In 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.
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A compilation of original essays by an international cast of scholars that addresses some of the major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. It analyzes pressing issues such as access to infrastructure and service elements in the postal sector, and forecasting mail volumes and the evolving market environment.
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In recent years, the postal sector has undergone radical changes, which have primarily been driven by operational and technological developments. Not only has the advent of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) added competition to the market, but it has also provided ample opportunity for the broadening and improvement of services and product range.This book deals with the challenges faced by the postal sector in the digital age, and with the vast opportunities that technological advancements offer postal operators with regard to developing new business solutions and services tailore
Postal service. --- Postal service -- Data processing. --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- Postal service --- E-books
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This volume, the result of the 21st Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics (Ireland, 2013), describes the continuing problem of the decline of the postal sector in the face of electronic competition and offers strategies for the survival of mail services in a digital age. The 25 original papers in this collection provide econometric analyses on the changing demand and elasticity of mail in the modern era. Proposed solutions to declining interest in the postal sector include closer links between mail services and the digital sphere, expansion of the parcel sector, changes to the universal service obligation, legal reform and regulatory change. Professors and students of regulatory economics will have an interest in this book, as will managers and other decision-makers working within the postal sector.
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Electronic mail systems --- Parcel post --- Postal service --- Postal service --- Economic aspects --- Technological innovations --- Economic aspects --- Technological innovations
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For eight days in March 1970, over 200,000 postal workers staged an illegal 'wildcat' strike - the largest in United States history - for better wages and working conditions. Picket lines started in New York and spread across the country like wildfire. Strikers defied court injunctions, threats of termination, and their own union leaders. In the negotiated aftermath, the U.S. Post Office became the U.S. Postal Service, and postal workers received full collective bargaining rights and wage increases, all the while continuing to fight for greater democracy within their unions. Using archives, periodicals, and oral histories, Philip Rubio shows how this strike, born of frustration and rising expectations and emerging as part of a larger 1960s-1970s global rank-and-file labour upsurge, transformed the post office and postal unions.
Postal service --- Postal Strike, U.S., 1970. --- Employees --- Labor unions --- History --- United States Postal Service --- National Association of Letter Carriers (U.S.) --- American Postal Workers Union --- History.
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This book brings to life the important but neglected story of African American postal workers and the critical role they played in the U.S. labor and black freedom movements. Historian Philip Rubio, a former postal worker, integrates civil rights, labor, and left movement histories that too often are written as if they happened separately. Centered on New York City and Washington, D.C., the book chronicles a struggle of national significance through its examination of the post office, a workplace with facilities and unions serving every city and town in the United States. Black postal...
African American postal service employees - History. --- African American postal service employees -- History. --- African Americans - Employment - History. --- African Americans -- Employment -- History. --- Discrimination in employment - United States - History. --- Discrimination in employment -- United States -- History. --- National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.). --- Postal service - Employees - Labor unions - United States - History. --- Postal service -- Employees -- Labor unions -- United States -- History. --- African American postal service employees --- African Americans --- Postal service --- Discrimination in employment --- Business & Economics --- Transportation Economics --- History --- Employment --- Employees --- Labor unions --- National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees (U.S.) --- History. --- Mail --- Mail service --- Post-office --- Afro-Americans --- Black Americans --- Colored people (United States) --- Negroes --- Postal service employees, African American --- Carriers --- Communication and traffic --- Transportation --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Blacks --- National Alliance of Postal Employees (U.S.) --- Bias, Job --- Employment discrimination --- Equal employment opportunity --- Equal opportunity in employment --- Fair employment practice --- Job bias --- Job discrimination --- Race discrimination in employment --- Employment (Economic theory) --- Employment&delete& --- Employees&delete& --- Labor unions&delete& --- E-books --- Affirmative action programs --- Black people
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Conçue au départ pour remplir les caisses du Trésor avec l'adoption du timbre, la poste devint ensuite un outil pour accroître les échanges commerciaux. Elle se trouve confrontée aujourd'hui à une mutation technologique. Cet ouvrage découpé en six grandes étapes montre tous les sytèmes utilisés par les hommes dans le monde pour communiquer entre eux depuis l'Antiquité.
Postes --- Postal service --- Histoire --- 331.18 --- 331.100 --- 384.1 --- AA / International- internationaal --- Geschiedenis van het vervoerwezen en van de telecommunicatie --- Economische geschiedenis: algemeenheden --- Posterijen --- Postes - Histoire
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