Japan Ministop to offer Japan Post parcel service as of June 1, 2005

Japanese convenience store chain Ministop Co, an affiliated company of retailing company Aeon, will officially handle the Yu-Pack parcels of Japan Post at its 1,684 outlets around Japan, starting from June 1, 2005, under an agreement signed on March 1, 2005.

Currently, Japan Post officially offers the Yu-Pack parcel service through all outlets of convenience store chain Lawson. Japan Post has experimentally offered the service at 16 convenience stores of Yamazaki Daily and at eight convenience stores of am-pm Japan since the summer of 2004. Yamazaki Daily and am/pm Japan will officially handle the Yu-Pack service through all of their outlets around Japan, starting from June 2005.

Ministop is affiliated with Yamato Transport on the handling of parcel services of Yamato at Ministop convenience stores. Ministop will dissolve the contract between the company and Yamato by the end of May 2005.

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Source: Sankei Shimbun