Marek Różycki (Last Mile Experts) discusses carrier-specific and carrier-agnostic parcel lockers:
- What this means in terms of parcel volumes in the network
- Cost of setting up the network
Then Mark Fallon, CEO and President of the Berkshire Company, joins me to discuss letter pricing in the age of parcels:
- Australia Post's application to increase the basic postage rate
- The forces driving costs in the letter delivery network
- Pricing for reserved/monopoly products vs parcels
- Limits on US Postal Service letter price increases
- Allegations of cross-subsidy between parcels and letters
- Postal pricing oversight by the Postal Regulatory Commission
- Annual parcel price increases for USPS and its major competitors
- A second rate increase in a calendar year?
- Strategies to cope with falling letter volumes:
- Reducing delivery days
- Slowing letter delivery speed
- Combining letter and parcel delivery
- Changing the delivery fleet
- Community mail boxes
- Reliability of the letters service
