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Chapter 1 - Competitive strategies of marketplaces vis-à-vis logistic choices: issues for competition policy (Pier Luigi Parcu) -- Chapter 2 - Lessons from the Experience of Telecommunications Regulation for Regulation in the EU Package Delivery Industry, with Focus on Access Regulation (Debra Aron) -- Chapter 3 - Self-provision by online platforms vertically integrated into delivery activities (Alberta Corona) -- Chapter 4 - The confluence of Competition Law, Consumer Protection and Sector-specific Regulation in the postal, delivery and related sectors (John Hearn) -- Chapter 5 - Double jeopardy between regulatory and competition proceedings: the bpost judgment and the Digital Markets Act (Alessandra Fratini) -- Chapter 6 - Twenty-five years of the National Postal Regulators in the EU. A critical review (Mateusz Cholodecki) -- Chapter 7 - Locked into an access mindframe? Reflections on Access regulation in postal & delivery based on the case of parcel lockers (Bruno Basalisco) -- Chapter 8 - Do we need regulation for parcel lockers? (Marine Lefort) -- Chapter 9 - A Universal Support Fund for Postal Services in the United States (Victor Glass) -- Chapter 10 - Incentives of Compensating USO net costs (Felix Gottschalk) -- Chapter 11 - Public Funding and Industrial Synergies: How They Impact on the Calculation of the Net Cost of the USO? (Emanuele Frezza) -- Chapter 12 - Can parcel growth support the sustainability of the USO? (Christian Strobel) -- Chapter 13 - E-commerce's Effects on the Turkish Postal Market: from Classical to New Business Models (Ozhan Zurel) -- Chapter 14 - Compensation of net costs generated by SGEIs. Examples from different European network industries (Stefano Gori) -- Chapter 15 - E-commerce and parcel delivery: environmental policy with green consumers (Helmut Cremer) -- Chapter 16 - Using pricing as a tool to achieve carbon neutrality: Implications for the United States Postal Service (Ian Stanford) -- Chapter 17 - The environmental footprint of home and out-of-home parcels delivery (Claire Borsenberger) -- Chapter 18 - Supporting Postal Services through Location-Based Fees (Tim Brennan) -- Chapter 19 - Allocating fixed costs of the outdoor delivery: A cooperative game approach (Lea Munich) -- Chapter 20 - On Efficient Rate Design (Ted Pearsall) -- Chapter 21 - Measuring and Communicating a Universal Service Provider's wider Economic Value: Swiss Post's example (Felix Gottschalk) -- Chapter 22 - How the Covid-19 crisis is impacting postal markets? A new assessment one year later (Antonin Arlandis).-Chapter 23 - UK Parcel Market Trends in the Pre- and Post-Covid Environment: An Initial Assessment (Catherine Cazals) -- Chapter 24 - Exploring the use of control theory to describe and assess the UK's postal regulatory framework, including lessons that can be learnt and applied from this tool for regulation (Matthew Thomas) -- Chapter 25 - On the Prediction of the Postal Service's Marginal and Total Operating Costs (Soiliou Namoro) -- Chapter 26 - Logistics constraints for international e-commerce (Mauro Boffa) -- Chapter 27 - Transparency Initiatives in the Belgian Postal Sector (Ozhan Zurel).

The rise of e-commerce platforms in the parcel delivery markets -- Parcel locker stations: The future of e-commerce delivery? -- Regulation: Quo Vadis? Revisited. -- "Is Postal Service a Natural Monopoly?":A 30-year retrospective on Panzar's seminal paper" -- The first tests of the SGEI Framework in the postal sector: takeaways from the judgements in the Česká pošta and Post Danmark cases -- Universal service vs. targeted measures towards vulnerable people: how to address postal users' needs? -- Retention ratios in retail networks and their application to post offices -- Access regimes in the European postal markets -- The Economic Implications of "Density-Based Rate Authority" -- E-commerce, parcel delivery and environmental policy -- Assessing efficiencies and benefits of "sustainability agreements" in the postal sector -- The effects of the Covid-19 crisis on postal markets -- Short and longer-term impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on postal consumer demands, Universal Service Providers and the wider postal sector -- Covid-19 and Swiss Post: Volume developments and the economic value of postal service, in the pandemic and beyond -- A global survey of COVID-19 postal regulatory responses, to appraise short and long-term impacts -- The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the postal market: Challenges and opportunities for the postal regulatory framework -- Digital exclusion and the role of Posts have to play to fight against it -- The Response to Extensions of Vote-by-Mail and Early In-person Voting in the 2020 U.S. General Election -- Cost allocation and cooperative game theory -- Demand elasticities for publishing mail traffic in the UK: Intensive and extensive margins -- The Temporal and Spatial Dynamics of the USPS' Service Performance Scores over the Period 2011-2020.

Chapter 1. Competition in the Postal and Delivery Markets in Europe -- Chapter 2. The Game Theory of Cartels in the Postal Industry -- Chapter 3. When a price cost test is unnecessary for assessing pricing abuses - the Royal Mail case -- Chapter 4. Data and the regulation of e-commerce: data sharing vs. dismantling -- Chapter 5. An Assessment of USPS' Negotiated Service Agreements and Platforms' Direct Entry in Delivery -- Chapter 6. Least-Cost Parcel Delivery Methods in a Flexible Delivery Environment -- Chapter 7. Assessing Diversification in the Postal Sector -- Chapter 8. The Historical Contribution of Postal Service to Social Welfare in the United States -- Chapter 9. The risks of customer data processing under the GDPR: the Austria Post case -- Chapter 10. The Universal Postal Union. Quo Vadis -- Chapter 11. The legal definition of the postal service. Do we need to redefine the scope of postal regulation? -- Chapter 12. The future of Services of General Economic Interest in the postal industry -- Chapter 13. Sustaining the USO: Toward a Case for Adapting Reserved Area Parameters in the Digital Age -- Chapter 14. Neither the Carrot nor the Stick. How to ensure adequacy of traditional postal operators' funding in a rapidly transforming market -- Chapter 15. Has the Covid pandemic accelerated the rate of decline in business letters? Some early and preliminary analysis and thoughts -- Chapter 16. What is unfair? Assessing the unfairness of the universal postal service obligation -- Chapter 17. Net costs of USP's service provision: challenges for the coming decade -- Chapter 18. The climate challenge: what role postal operators are going to and could lay to mitigate it? -- Chapter 19. The role of postal operators in the circular economy.

This book addresses major issues facing postal and delivery services throughout the world. Worldwide, there is currently a considerable amount of interest in postal and delivery economics. The industry is reacting to a state of near crisis and is implementing different drastic changes. The European Commission and member States are still wrestling with the problem of how to implement entry liberalization into postal markets, how to address digital competition, and how to maintain the Universal Service Obligation (USO). The Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act of 2006 in the U.S. has perhaps created and exacerbated the problems faced by USPS. Digitalization, technological development and online platforms are strongly affecting both the way postal and delivery operators are managing their services, as well as their role on the market. Strong emphasis was attributed to the assets of Postal Operators (POs) and their added value in the digital age as well as on new business strategies. This volume presents original essays by prominent researchers in the field, selected and edited from papers presented at the 27th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics held in Dublin, Ireland, 22-25 May, 2019. Topics addressed by this volume include the fragmentation of the postal supply chain, blockchain and digital postal services, and the fading of traditional postal market boundaries. This book will be a useful tool not only for graduate students and professors, but also for postal administrations, consulting firms, and federal government departments.