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Changes to the Universal Service: Influencing Factors, Impacts and Regulatory Implications

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The Postal Services Directive 2008/6/EC in Article 3 sets out the obligation on Member States to “ensure that users enjoy the right to a universal service involving the permanent provision of a postal service of specified quality at all points in their territory at affordable prices for all users”.

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    Prior to the Act, Itella considered that non-priority letters were outside of the USO (Copenhagen Economics 2010). Following the Act, Itella considers that priority letters are outside of the USO (WIK 2013).

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    Steven Cape & Philip Groves

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  1. Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Michael Crew

  2. Florence School of Regulation, European University Institute, San Domenico di Fiesole, Firenze, Italy

    Pier Luigi Parcu

  3. School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Timothy Brennan

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Cape, S., Groves, P. (2017). Changes to the Universal Service: Influencing Factors, Impacts and Regulatory Implications. In: Crew, M., Parcu, P., Brennan, T. (eds) The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8_17

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