New Postal entity eyeing 20% cut in mail service costs in Tokyo
A postal public corporation to be established next month will promote efficient mail services with an eye toward achieving a 20% cost reduction, three top executives of the new entity said Thursday.
“While the state-run postal services lack cost-consciousness, we can realize a 20% cut in mail service costs,” said Toshihiro Takahashi, a former managing director of Toyota Motor Corp. who will become a deputy chief of the postal corporation, Japan Post.
Takahashi met reporters together with Masaharu Ikuta, chairman of Mitsui O.S.K. Lines Ltd., who will head the corporation, and Hiroaki Dan, director general of the Postal Services Agency, who will assume the same post as Takahashi.
The new entity will be established April 1 to take over the currently state-run postal services of mail delivery, postal savings and “kampo” life insurance.
“Workers are highly motivated. I am sure we can get off to a good start on April 1,” Ikuta said.
Dan said the new corporation will establish postal savings and life insurance systems that “can withstand changes in financial trends.”
“Provision of professional services to all customers” and “contribution to the affluence of local communities and society” are among the management principles of the corporation, the three executives said.
