Lessons from the Postal Sector to Telecommunications and Vice Versa
| Autor: | Pier Luigi Parcu, Virginia Silvestri |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Marginal cost
business.industry 020209 energy media_common.quotation_subject 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Public relations 01 natural sciences 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Postal service The Internet Quality (business) Profitability index Marketing business Versa 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Changing Postal and Delivery Sector ISBN: 9783319460451 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-46046-8_2 |
| Popis: | 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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