The Integrated Index for Postal Development (2IPD) is a scale confected by the

Universal Postal Union The Universal Postal Union (UPU, ) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) that coordinates postal policies among member nations and facilitates a uniform worldwide postal system. It has 192 member states and is headquartered in Be ...

to measure "a composite index providing an overview of postal development around the world". 2IPD covered the

postal services The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. Since the mid-19th century, national postal sy ...

for 170 countries in 2016. It covered 172 countries in 2022. The measure "takes into consideration four main factors: quality of service performance; global postal connectedness; level of

competitiveness Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individ ...

in local and international markets; and ability to show resilience." "The 2IPD draws on three main types of UPU data: postal big data,

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

and surveys."

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