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Access pricing in competitive postal services

✍ Scribed by Chris Nicholson

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1994
Tongue
English
Weight
691 KB
Volume
4
Category
Article
ISSN
0957-1787

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✦ Synopsis

Postal services are the latest network industry to be considered for liberalization and privatization. Given the natural monopoly characteristics of the delivery function, one of the most effective ways of introducing competition will be through downstream access to the network. Pricing of access causes particular problems due to the significant averaging of costs as a result of government's desire to maintain universal delivery at a uniform tariff. This paper considers some of the options for access pricing and draws analogies with the telecommunications sector.

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