What future for the post office network?

Christian Jaag and Matthias Finger
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Matthias Finger: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, 2017, vol. 18, issue 3-4, 153-174

Abstract: Incumbent postal operators (POs) are particularly challenged with rapid technological developments and especially with 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 article presents potential strategies and discusses the main trends in postal network evolution among incumbent POs, 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 network; postal strategy; network development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/1783591717741789

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