The politics of postal transformation : modernizing postal systems in the electronic and global world / Robert M. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Robert Malcolm.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postal service--Government policy.

Postal service.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (516 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The postal sector is a multi-billion dollar set of activities that touches billions of lives daily and continues to be one of the world's largest employers. Until recently all Posts were monopolies owned by governments in order to maintain a universal postal service. However, in response to technological and international competition as well as public disenchantment with postal subsidies and inefficiencies, governments have embraced a range of new strategies. In The Politics of Postal Transformation Robert Campbell investigates and analyses the most important policy innovations in recent years as countries struggle to create a postal regime that matches domestic political expectations with international and technological realities. Through extensive interviews with numerous key government, regulatory, postal, and union officials in North America, Europe, and Australasia, he identifies four models or strategies, each reflecting particular national characteristics and ambitions: from privatization (Netherlands, Germany) and deregulation (Finland, Sweden, New Zealand) to increased national support (France) and mixed strategies (UK, Australia). Campbell's comparative analysis provides a backdrop for a set of recommendations for policy-makers and lays the foundation for informed speculation about future international postal developments and the possible domination of the system by a select group of postal behemoths.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Abbrevations

Introduction

The Mercantile Model

The Netherlands

Germany

The Market Model

Finland

Sweden

New Zealand

The National Model

Denmark

France

Canada

The Hybrid Model

The United Kingdom

Australia

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [483]-487) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85972-2

9786612859724

0-7735-6974-X

OCLC:

76898622