| NOTAS: | "For the second year in a row, the Postal Economic Outlook reports on the latest statistics in the postal sector and puts them into perspective within the current macroeconomic context. 2017 and 2018 brought strengthened global growth figures in comparison with 2016. Indeed, 2017 was the first year since the financial crisis in which trade grew faster than GDP. Since trade has been a driver of economic growth in the recent past, its accelerated expansion was more than welcome. However, the economic landscape for 2019 looks less bright. The rise of political uncertainty and signs of a potential crisis in investor sentiment has put the economic recovery at risk. These factors, and other spillovers, are likely to exert additional pressure on postal operators around the world, especially because of the pro-cyclical nature of their businesses.
This report zooms in on the increasing intensity of competition in the postal sector. In most countries, the sector used to be fully run by a single operator. But this situation has changed completely as a result of liberalization. Using information collected by the UPU, it is possible to estimate the intensity of competition in the different postal segments, calculating the market shares of DOs for letters, parcels and express mail." |
