Assessing the Cost of the Portuguese Postal Network

Ricardo Goulão Santos, Alberto Pimenta and Sofia Beatriz Henriques
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Ricardo Goulão Santos: CTT Correios de Portugal S.A.
Alberto Pimenta: CTT Correios de Portugal S.A.
Sofia Beatriz Henriques: CTT Correios de Portugal S.A.

Chapter Chapter 7 in Progress toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, 2006, pp 103-120 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In an increasingly competitive postal market, the issue of how to maintain a universal service of postal services is beginning to beg several questions. How can the profitability of the service providers be assured? How can the users be better served? What should the price/quality of service framework be? At what cost? Is it cost effective to deliver everywhere, at present price conditions? Subsequently, issues such as the cost of the Universal Service Obligation (USO), cross-subsidization, uniform pricing of a non-uniformly costing service, downstream access and the effects of entry are becoming increasingly important.

Keywords: Uniform Price; Postal Service; Transport Route; Postal Network; Universal Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-29744-6_7

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