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On Some Historical Contributions of the Postal and Delivery Conference

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The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector

Part of the book series: Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy ((TREP))

Abstract

This paper explores market and regulatory themes developed and debated at CRRI (now EUI-CRRI) Conferences on Postal and Delivery Economics. These include efficiency of postal operators, universal service and financing, third-party access to postal networks, and full market opening (FMO). Thematic development has relied on the cross-fertilizing mixture of participants that includes academics, national postal providers, mail competitors, express courier services, regulators, law scholars, consultants, technology experts and unions.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    All works cited in this paper are published in the books produced after each of the 25 Conferences: the year identifies the book and the chapter’s author(s).

  2. 2.

    “The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people” (39 U.S. C. §101(a)).

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    Pier Luigi Parcu

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    Vincenzo Visco Comandini

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Parcu, P.L., Visco Comandini, V. (2018). On Some Historical Contributions of the Postal and Delivery Conference. In: Parcu, P., Brennan, T., Glass, V. (eds) The Contribution of the Postal and Delivery Sector. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70672-6_2

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