Date: 2017
Type: Contribution to book
Lessons from the postal sector to telecommunications and vice versa
Michael CREW, Pier Luigi PARCU and Timothy BRENNAN (eds), The changing postal and delivery sector : towards a renaissance, Cham : Springer, 2017, pp. 17-33[Florence School of Regulation], [Communications and Media]
PARCU, Pier Luigi, SILVESTRI, Virginia, Lessons from the postal sector to telecommunications and vice versa, in Michael CREW, Pier Luigi PARCU and Timothy BRENNAN (eds), The changing postal and delivery sector : towards a renaissance, Cham : Springer, 2017, pp. 17-33[Florence School of Regulation], [Communications and Media] - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/51457
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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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Full-text via DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8_2; 10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8
ISBN: 9783319460451; 9783319460468
External link: http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783319460451
Series/Number: [Florence School of Regulation]; [Communications and Media]
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