Post offices in many countries, private carriers, labor unions, and other entities sponsored the 18th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, held in Porvoo, Finland in June 2010.
Economists in academia, regulatory and other government agencies, and companies present 26 papers on such topics as whether the level of price elasticity changes with the progression of
substitution, a content-based time-series analysis of British letter mail demand using overlapping market survey statistical techniques, state funding and cost sharing of the universal service
obligation under the 2008 European Union Postal Services Directive, price discrimination in the postal sector and competition law, a comparison of strategic responses to recession by the US
Postal Service and leading companies, universal service versus environmental protection, and offering sensor network services using postal delivery vehicle fleets. Annotation 穢2011 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
