ASIAN EXPANSION POSTAL GROWTH IN CHINA The postal sector in China has grown 11.6 percent per year on average since 1998, becoming a USD $10.64 billion industry. Postal delivery in China is still dominated by the state-owned China Post Group, but the sector is undergoing...
Policy Leaders Call for Lifting the U.S. Postal Service’s Mailbox Monopoly For Immediate Release – July 2, 2007 Arlington, VA – In a public filing today with the Federal Trade Commission, 6 prominent policy leaders called for lifting the U.S. Postal Service’s monopoly on...
EUROPE COMPETITION DELAYED BRUSSELS DEADLINE MAY SLIP TWO YEARS Full European postal deregulation may now come later than many had hoped. In June, the European Parliament's Transport and Tourism Committee backed a plan calling for national postal monopolies to expire by December 31, 2010,...
LIBERALIZATION SHAKES UP UK In the deregulated UK mail market, state-owned Royal Mail and one of its main competitors, TNT Post, the Netherlands' former state-owned mail carrier, are in a heated battle over pricing. TNT is a Royal Mail customer as well as...
ACROSS THE GLOBE, MONOPOLIES LOSE GROUND IN EUROPE, FORGING AHEAD WITH LIBERALIZATION In mid-October, the European Commission proposed that the 25 EU members have until 2009 to open their letter- delivery markets to unrestricted competition. A majority of European Members of Parliament must approve...