The following is a paper presented by Gene Del Polito at a recent conference on the future of the Postal Service conducted by the Center for Research on Regulated Industries. The views expressed are solely the author’s. This paper has been published in the Postal Journal, and we appreciate the Journal’s courtesy in permitting publication [...] Read more »
By Jessica Dauer Lowrance and Gregory Dawson Presented at the 30th Annual Eastern Conference of the Center for Research in Regulated Industries “We need to challenge the entire industry to rethink costs, pricing, their relationship and the need to challenge the historic, inflexible connection between them. This paper is a timely call to liberate ourselves [...] Read more »
By Michael Schuyler, Senior Economist, Institute for Research on the Economics of Taxation (IRET) In January 2010, the Postal Service Office of Inspector General (Postal OIG) issued a report giving hope that the Service’s financial problems might be less severe than previously believed. The report asserted that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has forced [...] Read more »
