LibanPost: a successful strategy for a private-public partnership
Subject area – This case gives readers the opportunity to think about strategies employed in the postal sector amid sector, technological, national and global challenges. It highlights the importance of thinking about real options, and real solutions to counter the failures of the past and the uncertainties of the future. Study level/applicability – The case will be particularly useful for master’s degrees, Master of Business Administration, doctorate students or undergraduate specialized courses of strategy, public sector management and privatization. Case overview – This case study aims to analyze the manner in which LibanPost transformed itself from a government bureaucracy to a commercial company and how, through diversification, it was transformed from a traditional postal operator to a high-end service provider. In addition, it attempts to examine the stages that have led to LibanPost’s success, shedding the light on the major barriers and enablers for its reform. Expected learning outcomes – The st...
Providing universal postal service in developing countries
The need for faster and higher-quality communication, services and transport of goods has led to a reform of postal service activity. The goal of such reform is to provide higher-quality services at competitive prices by increasing the competition in the postal industry, and to increase the efficiency of postal operators. Liberalisation did not produce the desired results, as it was not complete and did not have the capacity to ensure basic postal services throughout the entire territory. The key question that is raised here which requires a response is: How to liberalize the market and provide universal postal services in the entire territory at affordable prices, and how to achieve a desirable quality thereof without discriminating the clients and operators. This paper defines the original model of securing universal services, based on the simultaneous use of several different models in financing universal services within the territory of one state. However, the model is designed for developing countries. The object of observation was one of the developing countries, with significant imbalances in the development of the region and the postal infrastructure. 
 
   
 
 Key words: Universal service obligation (USO), economic development, liberalisation, model.
Universal Postal Union
The Universal Postal Union, which has operated since 1874 through periodic Congresses (every five years) and the International Bureau, has recently continued work interrupted by the war. The Congress of the Union, convening May 6 in Paris, at the call of the French government, was to consider over 500 proposals which had been submitted by member countries, asking for changes in many phases of the international postal provisions of the Buenos Aires Convention (1939), and subsidiary agreements. Matters pending consideration included the question of establishing some relationship between the Union and the United Nations, and the possible creation of an Administrative Council designed to make important decisions, in cooperation with the International Bureau, during intervals between Congresses.