Efficient and interconnected logistics networks, like postal services, provide powerful tools for criminal groups to organize cross-border drug trafficking by exploiting legitimate infrastructure. Despite postal services becoming inadvertent facilitators in smuggling, focused research on this...

This paper investigates the impact of technological advancements, particularly the integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), on the efficiency and productivity of the postal service industry in Slovakia. By employing the Cobb-Douglas production function, we analyze the relationship between...

The study defines five future scenarios for the EU postal sector with a time horizon of 2040 to identify key challenges and market failures. The 'baseline' scenario focuses on the most 'probable' evolution of key indicators describing the postal sector based on the evidence available today....

In den letzten zehn Jahren ist der grenzüberschreitende Onlinehandel, insbesondere aus China in die EU, stark gewachsen. Plattformen wie Shein und Temu spielen dabei eine zentrale Rolle. Die Studie analysiert, wie regulatorische Änderungen, technologische Fortschritte und Marktstrategien die...

Urbansierung und demografischer Wandel zeigen auch Auswirkungen auf die Nachfrage nach Dienstleistungen der Grundversorgung. Das führt dazu, dass private und öffentliche Dienstleister bestrebt sind, wirtschaftlich unattraktive Standorte sukzessive aufgeben, wobei ländliche Räume von diesen...

Chinesische Onlineplattformen wie AliExpress, Shein und Temu versenden einen Großteil ihrer Waren als Einzelsendungen per Luftfracht direkt aus China an europäische Kundinnen und Kunden. Dies hat zu einem starken Anstieg der grenzüberschreitenden ECommerce-Pakete nach Europa geführt, die von...

The purpose of this study to provide a comprehensive account of the development and current status of federal laws that grant the United States Postal Service exclusive rights in the carriage of letters (the “postal monopoly”) and the delivery of mailable matter (the “mailbox monopoly”)....

This study seeks to provide a comprehensive description of the development and status (through 2008) of federal laws that oblige the United States Postal Service to provide a “universal postal service” throughout the United States. Since the term “universal postal service” has no legal...

Organisational restructuring involving cost-cutting, downsizing, and the acquisition and divestment of different functions is an increasingly normalised aspect of employment in both the private and public sectors. This article takes up the question of the effects of restructuring on workers...

Rogowski et al. (2022) use secondary data to study the impact of historic postal infrastructure on economic development, both cross-country and within the US. Their results suggest a large positive effect of post offices on economic development that is robust across various sensitivity checks....

Systems View of the Supply Chain -- Process Improvement In The Supply Chain -- Flexibility and Resilience -- Supply Chain Systems Integration -- The Postal System in the Supply Chain -- Modeling for Supply Chain Optimization -- Supply Chain Forecasting -- Learning Curve in the Supply Chain --...

Abstract: There have been recent calls for new regulation of package delivery in the EU. We provide a detailed description of the evolution of access regulation in the telecommunications industry in the EU and package delivery services in the EU to examine lessons from the telecommunications...

This paper experimentally analyses the effects of in-person canvassing and postal reminders on the mobilization of non-respondents for a telephone panel survey in Germany. We compare the response rates among randomly selected individuals who were visited by canvassers and those reminded by an...

Whether annual reports to shareholders provide valuable information for investors’ portfolio decisions has been the subject of considerable research, but the findings are mixed. Furthermore, establishing causality is challenging given the endogenous nature of financial reporting and the...

This paper reproduces a chapter from the author’s 2018 PhD thesis ‘The Digital Donga: Universal Access and Service in South Africa (1994 - 2014)’. The author’s subsequent book Regulating Telecommunications in SA: Universal Access & Service was published by Palgrave Press in 2020, and can...

This chapter deals with the imposition and execution of universal service obligations on licensees, which was a key component of South Africa’s telecommunications reform policy and legislative framework. Rollout and connectivity targets were imposed on the fixed-line (soon to be partially...

Die Brief- und Paketdienstleister in Deutschland haben die Notwendigkeit erkannt, ihre Prozesse nachhaltiger zu gestalten. Sie haben begonnen, ihre Emissionen zu reduzieren, sind aber weit entfernt davon, klimaneutrale Postdienste anzubieten, die nur für einen Restbestandteil fossiler Energie...

The theory of state capacity predicts that states with powerful abilities - as long as they are constrained - can promote economic growth. Many scholars argue that post offices historically approximate state capacity and that they can be used to evaluate the state’s ability to promote...

We use newly digitized records from the U.S. Post Office to study how strengthening state capacity affects public service delivery and innovation in over 2,800 cities between 1875-1905. Exploiting the gradual expansion of a major civil service reform, cities with a reformed postal office...

Universal postal service as a business opportunity -- Designation Of A Universal Service Provider In The EU Should One Size Fit All -- E-commerce parcel delivery, the unwanted guest at the USO table? An empirical study covering ten markets in Europe -- Is the universal service for “letters”...

This note presents preliminary evidence from a postal and face-to-face recruitment field for a telephone survey during the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawn from the city register of Duisburg, a metropolis of 500,000 inhabitants, voters eligible for the September 2021 Bundestag elections are the target...