Pricing the last mile in the postal sector

Catia Felisberto, Matthias Finger, Beat Friedli, Daniel Kraehenbuehl and Urs Trinkner

No 3, Working Papers from Swiss Economics

Abstract: Traditionally, pricing of postal services was fully sender based. We analyze a potential alternative consisting of a two-part tariff where the sender is charged reduced postage while the recipient is charged a yearly fixed fee.

Keywords: Pricing; Two-part tariff; Universal Service; Receiver Pays Principle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16 pages
Date: 2005-07, Revised 2005-12
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Published in Progress towards Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, edited by M. A. Crew and P. R. Kleindorfer, New York: Springer, 249-266

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