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What future for the Post Office network?

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  • Christian Jaag
  • Matthias Finger

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Incumbent postal operators are particularly challenged by rapid technological developments and especially by digitalization which substitutes their letter mail, yet generally boosts parcel volumes. As a consequence, they have to rethink their strategy, especially for their post office network. The paper presents potential strategies and discusses the main trends in postal network evolution among incumbent postal operators, focusing in particular on the examples of Australia, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Italy and the United States, and assesses these strategies against a set of key performance and development indicators.

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  • Christian Jaag & Matthias Finger, 2017. "What future for the Post Office network?," Working Papers 0059, Swiss Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:chc:wpaper:0059
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    1. Katarina Mostarac & Petar Mostarac & Zvonko Kavran & Dragana Šarac, 2022. "Determining Optimal Locations of Postal Access Points Based on Simulated Annealing," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(14), pages 1-17, July.

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    JEL classification:

    • L43 - Industrial Organization - - Antitrust Issues and Policies - - - Legal Monopolies and Regulation or Deregulation
    • L51 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Economics of Regulation

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