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Contributors from academia, the industry itself, and regulatory agencies around the world present 23 papers, originally delivered at a May 1996 conference in Monterey, California. They look at such issues as international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation, competition, entry and the role of scale and scope economies, the nature and role of cost analysis, productivity, interactions between law and economics, and service standards. They include theoretical, empirical, legal, institutional, and policy perspectives. No index. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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Managing Change in the Postal and Delivery Industries brings together practitioners, postal administrators, the express industry, regulators, economists and lawyers to examine the important policy and regulatory issues facing the postal and delivery industries. This volume reviews such topics as international postal policy, the universal service obligation, regulation and competition, entry and the role of scale and scope economics, cost analysis in postal services, and service standards. This book provides a unique perspective on the problems facing postal and delivery networks.
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