IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/topchp/978-3-030-82692-5_14.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Neither the Carrot nor the Stick: How to Ensure Adequacy of Traditional Postal Operators’ Funding in a Rapidly Transforming Market

In: The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector

Author

Listed:
  • Emanuele Frezza

    (UPS Europe)

Abstract

The postal services market is going through a transformation that is challenging traditional postal operators’ ability to meet their universal service obligation (USO). Letter mail decline and increased parcel volume are driving operational changes and costs and re-shaping consumers’ behaviors. In order to stay competitive in a rapidly changing market, postal operators need to apply advanced technology solutions to the entire delivery chain while asked to increase efforts to promote sustainable deliveries and reduce environmental impact of their operations. Adapting to the new scenario requires investments in infrastructure and technology to support the delivery of growing parcel volumes and improve customers’ shipping experience whilst coping with obligations related to universal service provisions.

Suggested Citation

  • Emanuele Frezza, 2022. "Neither the Carrot nor the Stick: How to Ensure Adequacy of Traditional Postal Operators’ Funding in a Rapidly Transforming Market," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Pier Luigi Parcu & Timothy J. Brennan & Victor Glass (ed.), The Economics of the Postal and Delivery Sector, pages 205-220, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-030-82692-5_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-82692-5_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    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:spr:topchp:978-3-030-82692-5_14. 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.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using 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: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    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.