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2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

The Total Price of Mail: A Consumer Perspective

Authors : Benjamin Gough, Kirk Kaneer, Margaret M. Cigno

Published in: The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Recent postal economics literature typically examines postal costs from the incumbent National Postal Operator (NPO) perspective, often looking at costs of providing the Universal Service Obligation (USO) (Cremer et al. 2008; Bradley et al. 2009) or individual product costing (Robinson and McMurdie 2009).

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Footnotes
1
Large users are outside the scope of the chapter because their internal costs are more complex and driven by profit and loss considerations, and they have a greater ability to take advantage of existing postage discounts. Including large users would expand the chapter considerably; they could however be the topic of a separate chapter.
 
2
Data on Federal Minimum wage from US Department of Labor website: http://​www.​dol.​gov/​dol/​topic/​wages/​minimumwage.​htm.
 
3
The money price (letters) is the stamp for a First Class Letter. The money price (parcels) is the lowest price for 1–3 day Priority small flat rate box. Both prices taken from the USPS website: https://​www.​usps.​com/​ship/​mail-shipping-services.​htm.
 
4
Retirees may represent a large proportion of postal customers, who still rely upon access to traditional post office services.
 
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Cremer, H., De Donder, P., Boldron, F., Joram D., & Roy, B. (2008). Social costs and benefits of the universal service obligation in the postal market. In M. A. Crew & P. R. Kleindorfer (Eds.), Competition and regulation in the postal and delivery sector.
Directive 97/67/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 December 1997 on common rules for the development of the internal market of Community postal services and the improvement of quality of service, OJ L 015 of 21 January 1998.
Postal Regulatory Commission, “Report on Universal Postal Service and the Postal Monopoly”, 2008.
Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, 39 U.S.C. 101(b).
Robinson, R., & McMurdie, J. (2009). Postal costing beyond ABC: Estimating the economic cost of mails services. In M. A. Crew & P. R. Kleindorfer (Eds.), Progress in the competitive agenda in the postal and delivery sector.
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Metadata
Title
The Total Price of Mail: A Consumer Perspective
Authors
Benjamin Gough
Kirk Kaneer
Margaret M. Cigno
Copyright Year
2017
Book
The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-46045-1

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-46046-8

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8_19