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The national post office has been among the oldest and most enduring creations of modern government. In every nation, the post office is an important part of the commercial infrastructure, the social life of the nation, and the labor market. Nonetheless, a confluence of technological advances—in the fields of telecommunications, transportation, and computers—is causing many countries to rethink the institutional bases of the public postal operator and its role in the larger delivery services market. Major postal reform laws have been adopted in six industrialized countries: Australia (1994), Germany (1997), the Netherlands (1998), New Zealand (1998), Sweden (1998), and the United Kingdom (2000). Although each of these laws is moving in the same general direction, the routes taken differ substantially. This paper offers a comparative summary of different postal reform strategies as realized in modem postal reform laws.1
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Campbell, J.I. (2002). Modern Postal Reform Laws. In: Crew, M.A., Kleindorfer, P.R. (eds) Postal and Delivery Services. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series, vol 41. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0253-7_14
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