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Price tags for basic postal services

How expensive are the basic supply requirements today and in ten years?

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Client

Die Schweizerische Post AG

Project period

2023 – 2024

Related expertise

Regulation, Valuation, Strategy and Pricing, Telecommunications and Post, Data Science

Team

Urs Trinkner, Matthias Hafner, Eva Zuberbühler, Ramon Gmür, Nina Schnyder

Contact

Urs Trinkner, Matthias Hafner

Project description

Swiss Post's basic service obligation is defined by law and requires the provision of a nationwide acceptance and delivery network. The project analyses which levers of the basic service obligation in delivery cause which long-term costs (price tags).

Swiss Economics is supporting Swiss Post in defining the hypothetical scenarios and calculating the resulting price tags up to the year 2030.

Methods

  • Process cost-based costing with differentiation between variable and fixed cost components
  • Clustering of delivery points
  • GIS data processing and route optimisation for delivery points
  • Sensitivity analyses

Publications

  • Presentation at the 32nd Conference for Postal and Delivery Economics

 

 

 

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