Selected presentations from World Mail & Express Europe Conference, Budapest, 21 May 2008. - August 29, 2008
"Becoming More Responsive and Relevant in a Global Environment” by Iain McLure, CEO, Spring Global Mail
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"Strategies for a Competitive Advantage” by Ulrich Gygi, CEO, Swiss Post
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"Current and Future Development in the UPU” by Ken McKeown, Director, Markets Development, UPU
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"The European Markets: A Long Way to Liberalisation” by Alex Dieke, wik Consult
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Selected presentations from 16th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, Algarve, Portugal - August 19, 2008
16th Conference on Postal and Delivery Economics, May 28–31, 2008
Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal.
"Estimating the impact of price regulation on quality of service in post” by Greg Swinand (LE), Sean Lyons (ESRI), Michael O’Grady (LE), David Murphy (An Post)
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"Strategies and Business Models of European Postal Competitive Operators” by Laurent Deduytsche, Director - Strategy and
Nathaniel Medina, Manager - Economic Analysis Business Planning, Pitney Bowes
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"Price Control systems appropriate to newly liberalised postal markets in Europe” by John Hearn, Manager, Postal Liberalisation – ComReg, Vice-Chair CERP; Greg Harman -Director, LECG Ltd; Sangeet Dhanani -Senior Managing Consultant, LECG Ltd
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"Price Control systems appropriate to newly liberalised postal markets in Europe” by John Hearn, Manager, Postal Liberalisation – ComReg, Vice-Chair CERP; Greg Harman -Director, LECG Ltd; Sangeet Dhanani -Senior Managing Consultant, LECG Ltd
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" Monopoly to Competition in the UK Mail Market” by Billy Hayes and Stephen Bell
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"Competition, Wages and Politics in the Delivery Sector: The Case of Postal Minimum Wages in Germany” by Alex Kalevi Dieke, WIK, Ralf Wojtek, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
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“Estimating the impact of price regulation on quality of service in post” - August 5, 2008
“Estimating the impact of price regulation on quality of service in post” by Greg Swinand (LE), Sean Lyons (ESRI), Michael O’Grady (LE), David Murphy (An Post). Presented at the 16th CPDE, Portugal. Presentation
Selected presentations from 24th Universal Postal Congress – 23 July to 12 August 2008 - July 28, 2008
More than 2,000 delegates from the UPU's 191 member countries gather to discuss the major issues affecting the global postal sector today.
The Universal Postal Congress is the supreme authority of the Union and brings together plenipotentiaries of all member countries.
Although Congress' main function is legislative, the recent tendency has been to focus more on strategic and broad policy issues and the 2008 Congress will adopt a World Postal Strategy that will serve as a roadmap for member countries and UPU bodies until the next Congress in 2012.
Below are selected presentations from the conference (more to follow). To view additional materials, please visit the UPU website at: http://www.upu.int/news_centre/en/index.shtml
"Opening Address by the Secretary General, Mr. Edouard Dayan, Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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"E-commerce, the need for partners” by Alina Prawdzik -Director, European Emerging Markets, eBay
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“Postal Financial Services: A Lever For Development” by Andrey I. Kazmin, General Director, Russian Post
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Murray Martin, President & CEO, Pitney Bowes calls on the UPU to launch a Partnership for Postage Revenue Protection - July 25, 2008
Speaking at the 24th UPU Congress held in Geneva, Murray Martin, CEO, Pitney Bowes, proposed that the UPU launch a “Partnership for Postage Revenue Protection.” Martin said this partnership would contribute to the UPU’s strategic objectives of increasing the integrity, reliability and security of postal services, and assist postal operators that have a low mail density per capita develop solutions to stop revenue leakage. Martin said the UPU is well positioned to leverage the technical expertise of the Consultative Committee members to deal with this. Download the speech in full: Partnership for Postage Revenue Protection
"Is Competition Delivering" by Tim Brown, Director, Market Development, Postcomm - July 16, 2008
Selected presentations from the IEA & Marketforce's 7th Annual Conference - July 8, 2008
The IEA & Marketforce's 7th Annual Conference, “The Future of the UK Postal Services”, brought together senior speakers from across the industry to discuss the latest regulatory and strategic challenges affecting one of the world's most exciting postal markets. Delegates heard from a variety of operators including Royal Mail, Business Post, DX Group and TNT Post, who are all facing quite different market challenges. Postcomm talked about their strategic objectives and PTS, Sweden shared their experiences of deregulating the market, whilst an interesting case study from E.ON set out the customer viewpoint.
Below are some of the presentations from the “Future of the UK Postal Services” conference. For more details visit: http://www.marketforce.eu.com/conferences/documents/view/?page=overview
"Creating a Customer Oriented Business” by John Hughes, CEO, The Postal Group
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"Stimulating Effective Competition and Reducing the Regulatory Burden” by Nigel Stapleton, Chairman, Postcomm
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"Sweden Creating an Effective Competitive Framework” by Marianne Treschow, Swedish Post and Telecom Agency
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"The Framework for Action” by James Greenbury, Deputy Chairman, DX Group
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"The Future of the UK Postal Market Customer View” by Mike Case, E.ON UK
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"The Future of UK Postal Services” by Guy Hains, President & CEO, EMEA
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Selected presentations from 2nd GPREN Postal Research Conference - July 1, 2008
The Global Postal Research and Educational Network (GPREN) is a unique network of universities, whose aim it is to conduct and provide research in the broader postal sector, to develop training activities, and to organize an annual postal research conference.
In an increasingly dynamic business environment, postal operators have to face new challenges with many threats and opportunities. To address these challenges, the GPREN aims at providing neutral and interactive atmosphere as well as a multi-disciplinary approach, so as to prepare for the future of the postal sector. The GPREN results from a Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Chair Management of Network industries (MIR) and the Universal Postal Union (UPU). Below are a few presentations from “The Second GPREN POSTAL RESEARCH CONFERENCE” held in Lausanne, Switzerland. For more information visit: http://mir.epfl.ch/page65837.html
"Collaboration in international standardization committees: A case analysis from the postal sector” by Farah Abdallah, PhD student.
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"Defensive Strategies in Two-Sided Markets” by Gruetter Lutzenberger.
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"Delivering Development Policies through Postal Networks” by José Anson, Laia Bosch and Justin Caron, Universal Postal Union.
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"Expansion and Cooperation Strategies of Integrators: an Economic Analysis” by Evy Onghena, University of Antwerp.
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"Measuring USO costs – A practical guide to profitability costs” by Henrik Ballebye Okholm.
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"Rebates in the German Postal Market: a View from Competition Policy” by Antonia Niederprüm and Dr. Martin Zauner, wik
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"Regulatory Institutions and Governance Costs in the Postal Sector: The Institutional Setting in Switzerland” by Martin Maegli, EPFL & Swiss Post and Dr. Christian Jaag, Uni. of St. Gallen & Swiss Post.
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"Service Quality, Price Caps and the USO” by Paul R. Kleindorfer, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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"Tendering Universal Service Obligations in Liberalized Postal Markets: An Outline of Thought” by Christian Jaag, University of St. Gallen, Swiss Post and Urs Trinkner, University of Zürich, Swiss Post.
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Selected presentations from the 2008 Envelope Manufacturers Association (EMA) Spring Meeting - June 27, 2008
"The Power of Envelopes” by Potomac Communications Group, Center for Technology and Trends.
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"Protecting Forests and the Triple Bottom Line for the Envelope Manufacturers Association” by Tensie Whelan, Executive Director, Rainforest Alliance.
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"USPS Strategic Transformation – Update” by Alixe Johnson.
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"The Jobs Study: Jobs and The Mailing Industry” by Transformation Strategy.
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