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It is widely believed that it costs more to provide rural areas with postal service than urban areas. This belief is based primarily on the perception of a cost differential between rural and city delivery.1This perception is one of the bases for the argument that a universal service requirement is necessary to assure the continuation of rural delivery or at least the level of service currently accorded rural areas.2
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Cohen, R.H., Ferguson, W.W., Xenakis, S.S., Kendall, R.L. (1993). Rural Delivery and the Universal Service Obligation: A Quantitative Investigation. In: Crew, M.A., Kleindorfer, P.R. (eds) Regulation and the Nature of Postal and Delivery Services. Topics in Regulatory Economics and Policy Series, vol 12. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3120-3_9
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