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Lessons from the Postal Sector to Telecommunications and Vice Versa

In: The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector

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  • Pier Luigi Parcu

    (Florence School of Regulation Communications & Media)

  • Virginia Silvestri

    (Florence School of Regulation Communications & Media)

Abstract

The arrival and diffusion of the commercial Internet has been one of the main causes of change in the postal sector in the last two decades. Its impact has been rapid and it has gone straight to the core of postal operators’ (POs’) activities: the mail business. Electronic communications, especially email, available at zero marginal cost and relatively high quality, have quickly changed consumers’ and businesses’ communicating habits, leading to substitution away from traditional physical mails. Although substantial postal volumes remain, for reasons that will later be discussed, it has certainly hit the sector’s volume and profitability dramatically.

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  • Pier Luigi Parcu & Virginia Silvestri, 2017. "Lessons from the Postal Sector to Telecommunications and Vice Versa," Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy, in: Michael Crew & Pier Luigi Parcu & Timothy Brennan (ed.), The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector, pages 17-33, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:topchp:978-3-319-46046-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8_2
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    1. Falch, Morten & Henten, Anders, 2018. "Universal service in a digital world: The demise of postal services," 22nd ITS Biennial Conference, Seoul 2018. Beyond the boundaries: Challenges for business, policy and society 190416, International Telecommunications Society (ITS).

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