What future for the Post Office network?

Christian Jaag and Matthias Finger

No 59, Working Papers from Swiss Economics

Abstract: Incumbent postal operators are particularly challenged by rapid technological developments and especially by digitalization which substitutes their letter mail, yet generally boosts parcel volumes. As a consequence, they have to rethink their strategy, especially for their post office network. The paper presents potential strategies and discusses the main trends in postal network evolution among incumbent postal operators, focusing in particular on the examples of Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States, and assesses these strategies against a set of key performance and development indicators.

Keywords: Postal Sector; Postal network; Postal strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L43 L51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017-07
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