scholarly journals Accessibility of Universal Postal Service According to Access Points Density Criteria: Case Study of Bjelovar-Bilogora County, Croatia

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarina Mostarac ◽  
Zvonko Kavran ◽  
Estera Rakić

Universal service providers have an obligation to provide a minimum required set of postal services – known as universal service obligation. To ensure universal service obligation, regulatory measures (criteria) which service providers must fulfil are often set up. In this paper, a geographical analysis of these criteria is conducted using current regulatory framework in the Republic of Croatia as an example. Based on the framework of the gravity model, accessibility of postal service is presented. The goal of the proposed research is to investigate the application of the gravity model for determining postal service accessibility, with special emphasis on rural areas. To our knowledge, this method has not been used in previous studies to determine accessibility of postal services. The results of the applied model could be used in future planning of access density criteria with various transportation modes.

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jörg Borrmann

Abstract In this paper, we develop a franchise bidding mechanism for postal services under the Universal Service Obligation (USO) in rural areas. For the collection and delivery of mail on rural routes and for small town counter operations, monopoly franchises are awarded. Deficits caused by the USO are balanced by transfers between the government and the incumbent postal operator, i.e. the franchiser. We analyze the efficiency properties of the mechanism and discuss the drawbacks when extending the mechanism to urban areas.


2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (88) ◽  
pp. 195
Author(s):  
Savva Maimescu

In the paper the author indicates the particularities of the merchandise, objects, values, goods, money declaration, carried out by natural persons and legal entities, which are transported and placed over the customs border of the state by the specialized state carrier “Posta Moldovei”. In the paper the author indicates the subjects of declaration who have full rights to send objects, values, goods by international postal service to the recipient who has his/ her place of residence in any country. In the paper the author also indicates the liability of natural persons and legal entities, which may occur in the case of non-declaration or inauthentic declaration of merchandise, objects, values, goods sent through international postal services to the recipient, as well as reports the administrative and criminal sanctions for committing these violations.


2012 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 387-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josip Gracin ◽  
Antun Stipetić

The existing postal infrastructure cannot efficiently support the requirements of new technologies and the supply of services on the open market of postal services. Post offices do not meet the new needs, therefore requiring an adjustment to new traffic and service requirements. The functioning of the postal system in the Republic of Croatia was carried out in order to adjust the functional equipment of the system to the introduction of the new technologies and services. At the same time a requirement was set to the public postal operator for more efficient performing of the universal postal service. Based on the analyses of the postal system functioning, a modular procedure of designing the postal network units was proposed and it provides the possibility of adjustment to the new technological, organizational and safety requirements of the postal system. KEY WORDS: postal units, module designing, postal traffic efficiency


Significance The administration’s 2021 fiscal year (October 1-September 30) budget request dismisses the preferred solution of the postmaster general and Congress Democrats, for taxpayers to fund USPS retiree healthcare obligations. Impacts Ending universal service would disproportionately hit rural areas and small towns, which rely on USPS. USPS will come under pressure to be more transparent about the discounts and terms it offers to bulk customers. The Postal Regulatory Commission’s review of how postal rates are set is likely to expand the criteria for justifying increases. Congress will appropriate more money for USPS to keep it going, but that will not necessarily drive reform.


2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 785-807
Author(s):  
Predrag Ralević ◽  
Momčilo Dobrodolac ◽  
Libor Švadlenka ◽  
Dragana Šarac ◽  
Dejan Đurić

The main aim of this paper is to perform efficiency and productivity analysis of Universal Service Obligation (USO) based on the Malmquist Productivity Indices (MPI) analysis. The study focuses on 29 Designated Operators (DOs) and two isolated periods, the years 2003 and 2017. There is a clear trend of workforce reduction (12%). Considering the postal services, the data confirm a general trend that the letter-post is in decline (30%) and the parcels are on the rise (52%). Considering the financial results, both costs and revenues are increased; however, there is a higher increase of revenue (33.13%) compared to the cost (32.61%). Further, the results of implemented methodology are twofold. Firstly, a progress is determined at the average level of all observed DOs according to the efficiency and productivity indicators. Among other, the results indicate the increase of productivity for both input MPI (3.5%) and output MPI (8%). However, there are significant variations of efficiency and productivity at the individual level. Secondly, the aim of research was also to examine the sources of productivity changes by considering postal market liberalization, ownership, marketing services and e-commerce. Our findings show that the last three specified variables contribute to the explanation of productivity change.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 89-107
Author(s):  
Reg Coutts

The Universal Service Obligation (USO) scheme we have in place in Australia in 2015 was put in place over 25 years ago when the world was very different than what it is today. The paper documents how the current USO entrenches an annual subsidy of some $300 to Telstra to provide a standard telephone service over an aging copper infrastructure to regional and remote premises across Australia. The current expensive USO scheme is inadequate for people in remote and regional Australia and in the light of the NBN roll out and the demand for mobile services is in urgent need of review. The paper reviews the approach taken to providing high cost telecommunications services in rural areas both developed and developing economies across the world and draws lessons for devising a basis for a way forward. Given the now bipartisan acceptance of the rural and remote component of the NBN roll out and drawing on these lessons, now is the opportunity to scrap the current USO scheme and establish a Universal Service Fund (USF) where the NBN is the Universal Infrastructure wholesale provider with alternative retailers. The paper supports five practical interrelated recommendations that diverts current USO funding to ensure broadband and mobile services extension in rural and remote Australia as well as reimagining future payphones around public WiFi and rural community innovation.


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