Abstract
Although deregulation is a relatively recent innovation, it already has had profound effects on network industries. While its impact on the postal sector has been even more recent and its full effect has yet to be felt, this should be seen as an opportunity for the postal sector to learn from some of the lessons of the other industries. A key issue in all of these industries is who should provide and pay for the default service obligation, which in postal service is known as the Universal Service Obligation (USO). We will see that the USO is the central focus of the deregulation debate in the postal sector.
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Crew, M.A., Kleindorfer, P.R. (2004). Deregulation of Postal Service. In: Rowley, C.K., Schneider, F. (eds) The Encyclopedia of Public Choice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-47828-4_73
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