The Pricing of Cross-Border Parcel Delivery Services

Claire Borsenberger, Lisa Chever, Helmuth Cremer, Denis Joram and Jean-Marie Lozachmeur
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Claire Borsenberger: Groupe La Poste
Lisa Chever: Groupe La Poste
Denis Joram: Groupe La Poste
Jean-Marie Lozachmeur: Toulouse School of Economics (IDEI, CNRS)

A chapter in The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector, 2018, pp 223-239 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The role of parcel delivery services in cross-border e-commerce is a hotly debated topic within the EU and beyond. While volumes of domestic e-commerce have increased dramatically over the last years in all member States, cross-border purchases remain lower, even though the latest figures released by E-commerce Europe (2016) showed an acceleration of cross-border transactions. This can be explained by a variety of factors including language and cultural barriers and bureaucratic obstacles (in particular the complexity of VAT regimes—see E-commerce Europe last cross-border barometer) but also simply by the fact that goods are available on the domestic market without any significant price differential. The EU Commission has recently launched a proposal that focuses on parcel delivery services and particularly their pricing as an alleged major impediment for the development of cross-border e-commerce (European Commission 2016).

Keywords: Parcel Delivery Service; Cross-border Parcel; Terminal Dues; Domestic Delivery; Post-operative Extension (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70672-6_16

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