Self-Provision by Online Platforms Vertically Integrated into Delivery Activities

Alberta Corona (), Claudio Lorenzi () and Anna Mucci ()
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Alberta Corona: AGCOM, Autorità Per Le Garanzie Nelle Comunicazioni
Claudio Lorenzi: AGCOM, Autorità Per Le Garanzie Nelle Comunicazioni
Anna Mucci: AGCOM, Autorità Per Le Garanzie Nelle Comunicazioni

A chapter in Postal Strategies, 2023, pp 29-41 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract One of the main recent developments in postal markets is the emergence of e-commerce platforms that are gradually evolving from simple intermediaries to full-service providers offering, inter alia, delivery services. It is, therefore, necessary to establish whether online platforms engaged in delivery activities should be considered as postal operators. Once this has been clarified, one further issue to address is if self-provided delivery can be qualified as a postal activity. Indeed, generally online platforms deliver both their own goods and third-party sellers’ goods. Some vertically integrated platforms believe that the delivery of their own goods should be excluded from the application of the postal services’ legal framework on the grounds that they are carried out as self-provision. The issue is relevant not only from a legal point of view, but also from an economic point of view. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the legal and economic aspects relating to the relevance and applicability of the concept of self-provision in postal markets.

Keywords: Platform; E-commerce; Self-provision; Postal services (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_3

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