Ep 147: postal and parcel trends analysis

Mar 18, 2019

Mark Harrison, Head of Markets at International Post Corporation, goes behind the data of the IPC’s recent Global Postal Industry Report. We cover:

• How the postal industry is evolving
• Key postal industry trends
• Analysis of decline in letter volumes, in particular e-substitution, and comparison between sectors
• Pricing of letters, fixed costs, and volume decline
• Changing the universal service obligation
• Parcel volume growth vs e-commerce growth
• Posts partnering with delivery start-ups
• Competition in parcel delivery and the impact on margins
• Posts diversifying outside the letters business
• International operations
• Acquisitions
• Major trends that will shape the postal sector