IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/chc/studse/0010.html

Impact of Discontinuance of Saturday Delivery for Letters and Flats

Author

Listed:
  • Urs Trinkner
  • Andreas Haller

Abstract

Delivery costs are the largest segment of total costs incurred by the United States Postal Service (USPS). These costs comprise 38 percent of total operating costs. Accurately assessing how unit delivery costs behave is crucial to properly attribute costs to products. This report presents the application of a model for estimating the relationship between the cost of city carrier delivery and the number of delivery points receiving mail, as well as the volume of mail to be delivered. This model uses data from the Postal Service that allow the identification of the geographic location of all delivery points served by each delivery route, the volume delivered on the route each day, and the time spent on the route by the carrier. The model simulates each route, determining the shortest linear distance to serve all delivery points receiving mail.

Suggested Citation

  • Urs Trinkner & Andreas Haller, 2014. "Impact of Discontinuance of Saturday Delivery for Letters and Flats," Studies and Reports, Swiss Economics, pages 1-65, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:chc:studse:0010
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.swiss-economics.ch/RePEc/files/S0010PRC.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Andreas Haller & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2013. "Calculating the net cost of home delivery," Working Papers 0041, Swiss Economics.
    2. Panzar, John C., 2000. "A methodology for measuring the costs of universal service obligations," Information Economics and Policy, Elsevier, vol. 12(3), pages 211-220, September.
    3. Andreas Haller & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2014. "Calculating the net cost of home delivery obligations," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. J. Brennan (ed.), The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age, chapter 17, pages 227-239, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. C. Jaag & U. Trinkner & J. Lisle & N. Waghe & E. Van Der Merwe, 2011. "Practical Approaches to USO Costing and Financing," Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, Intersentia, vol. 12(2), pages 108-130, June.
    5. Urs Trinkner & Bernd Holznagel & Christian Jaag & Helmut Dietl & Haller Andreas, 2012. "Möglichkeiten eines gemeinsam definierten Universaldienst Post und Telekommunikation aus ökonomischer und juristischer Sicht," Studies and Reports, Swiss Economics, pages 1-79, September.
    6. Cátia Felisberto & Matthias Finger & Beat Friedli & Daniel Krähenbühl & Urs Trinkner, 2006. "Pricing the Last Mile in the Postal Sector," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer (ed.), Progress toward Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 0, pages 249-264, Springer.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Matthew H. Robinson & J. P. Klingenberg & Andreas Haller & Urs Trinkner, 2015. "Estimating the Financial Impact of Discontinuing Saturday Delivery of Letters and Flats in the U.S," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. Brennan (ed.), Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy, edition 127, pages 155-168, Springer.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Matthew H. Robinson & J. P. Klingenberg & Andreas Haller & Urs Trinkner, 2015. "Estimating the Financial Impact of Discontinuing Saturday Delivery of Letters and Flats in the U.S," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. Brennan (ed.), Postal and Delivery Innovation in the Digital Economy, edition 127, pages 155-168, Springer.
    2. Jaag Christian, 2011. "Entry Deterrence and the Calculation of the Net Cost of Universal Service Obligations," Review of Network Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 10(1), pages 1-19, March.
    3. Andreas Haller & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2014. "Calculating the net cost of home delivery obligations," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Timothy J. J. Brennan (ed.), The Role of the Postal and Delivery Sector in a Digital Age, chapter 17, pages 227-239, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    4. Christian Otter & Christian Watzl & Daniel Schwarz & Pamela Priess, 2017. "Towards sustainable logistics: study of alternative delivery facets," Post-Print hal-01861042, HAL.
    5. Jaag Christian, 2013. "Price Regulation and the Financing of Universal Services in Network Industries," Review of Law & Economics, De Gruyter, vol. 9(1), pages 125-150, September.
    6. Christian Otter & Christian Watzl & Daniel Schwarz & Pamela Priess, 2017. "Towards sustainable logistics: study of alternative delivery facets," Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Issues, VsI Entrepreneurship and Sustainability Center, vol. 4(4), pages 460-476, June.
    7. Helmut M. Dietl & Urs Trinkner, 2008. "Developing Universal Postal Services in Latin America ? an Economic Perspective," Working Papers 0012, Swiss Economics, revised Nov 2008.
    8. Lowing, David & Munich, Léa & Techer, Kevin, 2025. "Allocating the common costs of a public service operator: An axiomatic approach," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 81(C).
    9. Luis R. Boscán, 2020. "European Union retail electricity markets in the Green Transition: The quest for adequate design," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 9(1), January.
    10. Joan Calzada & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2010. "Universal service auctions in liberalized postal markets," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer (ed.), Heightening Competition in the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 17, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    11. Beat Friedli & Christian Jaag & Daniel Krähenbühl & Ole Bach Nielsen & Søren-Michael Pihl & Urs Trinkner, 2006. "Consumer Preferences and Last Mile Pricing in the Postal Sector," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer (ed.), Liberalization of the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 21, pages 343-356, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    12. Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2008. "Pricing in Competitive Two-Sided Mail Markets," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer (ed.), Competition and Regulation in the Postal and Delivery Sector, chapter 10, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    13. Christian Jaag & Florian Stahl & Benoit Stroelin, 2011. "Commercial and Regulatory Aspects of Reverse Hybrid Mail," Working Papers 0030, Swiss Economics.
    14. Bourguignon, Helene & Ferrando, Jorge, 2007. "Skimming the other's cream: Competitive effects of an asymmetric universal service obligation," International Journal of Industrial Organization, Elsevier, vol. 25(4), pages 761-790, August.
    15. Silvia Concettini & Anna Creti, 2013. "Liberalization of electricity retailing in Europe: coming back or going forth?," Working Papers hal-00915924, HAL.
    16. Christian Jaag, 2007. "Liberalization of the Swiss Letter Market and the Viability of Universal Service Obligations," Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics (SJES), Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics (SSES), vol. 143(3), pages 261-282, September.
    17. Beschorner, Patrick Frank Ernst, 2008. "Liberalization of the Postal Service Market in Europe: Entry with Universal Service and Partial Coverage," ZEW Discussion Papers 08-122, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research.
    18. Dolente, Cosimo & Galea, John Joseph & Leporelli, Claudio, 2010. "Next Generation Access and Digital Divide: Opposite Sides of the Same Coin?," 21st European Regional ITS Conference, Copenhagen 2010: Telecommunications at new crossroads - Changing value configurations, user roles, and regulation 9, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).
    19. Andreas Haller & Christian Jaag & Urs Trinkner, 2013. "Calculating the net cost of home delivery," Working Papers 0041, Swiss Economics.
    20. Urs Trinkner & Bernd Holznagel & Christian Jaag & Helmut Dietl & Haller Andreas, 2012. "Möglichkeiten eines gemeinsam definierten Universaldienst Post und Telekommunikation aus ökonomischer und juristischer Sicht," Studies and Reports, Swiss Economics, pages 1-79, September.

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:chc:studse:0010. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Urs Trinkner (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/swecoch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.