Ep 170: Letters and parcels pricing

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