This paper quantifies the extent to which the shift in the aggregate household-level demand for postal delivery services can be attributed to the appearance of alternative modes of communication versus the concomitant rise in postal prices. We find that both recent postal price increases and the penetration of personal computer technology among US households led to similar reductions in postal ...

Postal financial services have been the beacon on inclusion globally. However, with impact of digitalization, physical network post offices no longer remains core competency. This article analyzes various factors contributing to household savings across both banks and offices. It examines effect competition at level between The main finding is that extensive does not significantly postal deposi...

The increasing importance of service sector has caused greater interest of both scientific community and practitioners in examining new service development (NSD) and understanding the necessary conditions of successful service innovation. Significant changes happened in the Postal sector during the last decades forces postal organizations to think in terms of service innovation, quality of serv...

Abstract The aim of the work is to indicate direction development postal services by means various analyses. According trend recent years, number letters in domestic and international traffic keeps decreasing, while parcels increasing. Universal Postal Union organizations individual countries must respond this trend. Of course, Covid-19 pandemic, complex geopolitical situation Eastern Europe cu...

The United States Postal Service (USPS) assigns unique identifiers for postal service areas known as ZIP codes which are commonly used to identify cities and regions throughout the in datasets. Despite widespread use of codes, there challenges using them geospatial analysis social sciences. This paper presents zipcodeR, an R package that facilitates code-level data by providing offline database...