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Postal Operators as “Ground Based” Online Platforms?

verfasst von : Paula Gori, Pier Luigi Parcu

Erschienen in: New Business and Regulatory Strategies in the Postal Sector

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

In the last 10–15 years the Internet has severely impacted the postal and delivery market: the volume of letters declined, the need for parcel delivery increased, the costumers’ needs changed. Postal Operators (POs) have started diversifying their businesses and delivery services companies have updated and readdressed their quality of service and their offers.
The aim of this paper is to understand whether POs could ri-converge in the direction of reinventing their business models in the digital era, i.e., if it is possible and/or convenient a radical change of POs, evolving from offline intermediaries toward a new form of ground-based/online intermediaries.

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Fußnoten
1
Article 39 (a) “The United States Postal Service shall be operated as a basic and fundamental service provided to the people by the Government of the United States, authorized by the Constitution, created by Act of Congress, and supported by the people. The Postal Service shall have as its basic function the obligation to provide postal services to bind the Nation together through the personal, educational, literary, and business correspondence of the people. It shall provide prompt, reliable, and efficient services to patrons in all areas and shall render postal services to all communities. The costs of establishing and maintaining the Postal Service shall not be apportioned to impair the overall value of such service to the people.”
 
2
The authors would like to thank the five operators for having shared their feedback as a follow-up of the presentation of the draft version of this paper at the 26th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics. Their input was key for finalizing this chapter.
 
4
Emails are the same product, but superior in many dimensions, offered for free through a different channel.
 
5
On this point compare the interesting survey on the Community Infopoint introduced in Sheedy, C., & Moloney, M. (2015). Digital inclusion: A role for postal operators in a smart world, postal and delivery innovation. Berlin: Springer.
 
6
Probably, Apple is the most important example of an originally closed platform/company, but the development of the Apple store shows that global success anyway requires an increasing degree of openness and interaction with other players.
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Postal Operators as “Ground Based” Online Platforms?
verfasst von
Paula Gori
Pier Luigi Parcu
Copyright-Jahr
2018
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02937-1_1