UK MONOPOLY ENDS British Open Doors to Competition Great Britain will open its postal market to full competition on Jan 1. It does so three years ahead of the European Union goal of full postal liberalization by 2009. At least 14 firms are now...
PRIVATIZATION GAMBLE PAYS OFF Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won a landslide victory. He had called snap elections for September 11th because parliament rejected his plan to privatize Japan Post. The ruling coalition, made up of Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party and the New...
Financial transparency. Requiring greater transparency and better cost attribution will allow postal management to increase efficiency, and observers to monitor their progress. Adequate transparency would also help prevent abuse of the Postal Service's monopoly power. Price stability, not flexibility. The Postal...
Arlington, VA -- In a letter to U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors Chairman James C. Miller, thirteen prominent policy leaders today endorsed six essential elements of effective postal reform. "Above all, effective reform must benefit the American people, not just extend the...
The year 2004 ended disappointingly for postal reform in the United States. Despite an enormous effort by Congress, the White House, and many interested parties, House and Senate bills designed to overhaul the USPS never passed. Elsewhere the outlook is decidedly brighter for...