Liberalization and the Universal Service Obligation --;1. Putty-Putty, Putty-Clay or Humpty-Dumpty? --;2. Funding the Universal Service Obligation under Liberalisation --;3. Assessing Liberalization in Context --;4. Sustainability of USO in a Liberalized Postal Market --;5. A Comparison of the Burden of Universal Service in Italy and the United States --;6. The Welfare Economics of Universal Service Standards and Service Quality --;7. Two-Tier Pricing under Liberalization --;Cost and Demand Studies --;8. Postal Services Cost Modeling --;9. An Econometric Study of Cost Elasticity in the Activities of Post Office Counters --;10. Mail Demand in the Long and Short Term --;11. Productivity and the Substitution between Labor and Capital in Postal Organizations --;12. Disaggregated Letter Traffic Demand in the UK --;Strategic Issues --;13. People and Privatization --;14. Modern Postal Reform Laws --;15. Evaluation of a Public Post Office: A Canadian Experience --;16. Saturday Delivery: Who Provides It? Who Needs It? --;17. Postal Administrations and Non-Postal Products --;18. USPS Finances: Is there a financially viable future --;19. Postal Infrastructures and Economic Development --;20. Assessment and Responses of Postal Sector Operators to Electronic Diversions.
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When Postmaster General Creswell penned his concern about the impact 2 of electronic diversion on his postal organization, the year was 1872.