Universal Service Obligation -- The Welfare Effects of Entry and Strategies for Maintaining the USO in the Postal Sector -- Universal Service Obligations in the Postal Sector -- Profitability of the Universal Service Postal Provider Under Entry with Economies of Scale in Collection and Delivery -- On the Use of Cost Functions in the Assessment of the Impact of Liberalization on Postal Universal Service Burden -- Questioning the Monopoly-Supported Postal USO in Developing Countries -- Estimating the Net Cost of the -- Assessing the Cost of the Portuguese Postal Network -- Access and Worksharing -- Establishing Non-uniform Access Prices in the UK -- Worksharing: How Much Productive Efficiency, at What Cost and at What Price? -- Regulating Access to Stimulate Competition in Postal Markets? -- Enhancing Competition by Unbundling the Postal Administration -- Liberalization and Quality of Service -- The Economic Implications of Quality of Service Regulation in a Liberalized Postal Market -- Estimation of Consumers’ Willingness-to-pay for Quality of Service in Post -- Pricing Issues -- Pricing and Welfare Implications of Alternative Approaches to Setting Price Controls in the Postal Sector -- Pricing the Last Mile in the Postal Sector -- Demand Studies -- Forecasting Swiss Mail Demand -- Generational Analysis of Mail Users -- Legal and Regulatory Issues -- The New EC Framework for State Aid to Public Service and the Postal Sector -- Postal Services Regulation In Europe -- Benefit-Cost Regulation of Negotiated Service Agreements -- The “Real” Graveyard Spiral -- Postal Reform in Japan -- Competition Structure and Future Postal Reform in Japan -- The Privatization of Japan Post.