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What’s past is prologue: understanding developments in North American postal markets

In: Reforming the Postal Sector in the Face of Electronic Competition

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  • Michael D. Bradley
  • Jeff Colvin
  • Mary K. Perkins

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In our increasingly technology-focused world, demand for traditional postal services is steadily shrinking. This timely volume examines the many challenges that the worldwide postal sector is facing as a result of growing electronic competition, and offers expert recommendations for reshaping postal structures to strengthen their competitiveness in an electronic age.

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  • Michael D. Bradley & Jeff Colvin & Mary K. Perkins, 2013. "What’s past is prologue: understanding developments in North American postal markets," Chapters, in: Michael A. Crew & Paul R. Kleindorfer (ed.), Reforming the Postal Sector in the Face of Electronic Competition, chapter 23, pages 336-349, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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