Price tags for basic postal services
How expensive are the basic supply requirements today and in ten years?
Die Schweizerische Post AG
Project period2023 – 2024
Related expertiseRegulation, Valuation, Strategy and Pricing, Telecommunications and Post, Data Science
TeamUrs Trinkner, Matthias Hafner, Eva Zuberbühler, Ramon Gmür, Nina Schnyder
ContactProject 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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