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Do We Need Regulation for Parcel Lockers?

In: Postal Strategies

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  • Xavier Ambrosini

    (Strategy Department, Parcel and Mail Division)

  • Alice Bermont-Vialatte

    (Legal Expert in the Competition Department, Direction of Institutional Affairs, Competition, and Regulation)

  • Marine Lefort

    (Economist in the Department “Doctrine Et Modélisation”, Direction of Institutional Affairs, Competition, and Regulation)

Abstract

The parcel market offers a number of options for delivery such as specific time windows, pick-up points, and parcel lockers. The parcel lockers sector is growing in Europe, with some countries more active than others depending on consumers’ habits and preferences. Networks are expanding and innovations are developing. After defining an essential facility and showing that lockers are the only one way to deliver parcels, we show that they cannot be considered as an essential facility. We question the need for ex ante regulation of access given the dynamic of the sector, the effect on innovation of such regulation, and the absence of evidence of the inefficiency of ex post competition law.

Suggested Citation

  • Xavier Ambrosini & Alice Bermont-Vialatte & Marine Lefort, 2023. "Do We Need Regulation for Parcel Lockers?," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Pier Luigi Parcu & Timothy J. Brennan & Victor Glass (ed.), Postal Strategies, pages 101-113, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-031-25362-1_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-25362-1_8
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