Governing the Postal Service Author:J. Gregory Sidak New telecommunications and transportation services, and a more advanced understanding of regulated industries, have focused attention once again on the management and regulation of the U.S. Postal Service. A global trend toward privatization and liberalization of mailed-owned delivery has emerged. In the United States, where significant portions... more » of the Postal Service's business have effectively been privatized by commercial firms, seriously doubts about the viability of the Postal Service in its current form have arisen. Six articles contribute to the revival of attention on the U.S. Postal Service in response to advances in telecommunications and communications and new thinking about regulated industries. The economics of mail delivery, the postal service as a public enterprise, postal monopoly and socialist east Europe, and pricing and service quality are among the topics.« less