Tag: Asia

India Post hires more mail carriers

Posted by | Oct 1, 2007 | |

Enthused with the success of the freighter hired last month to carry postal material from Kolkata to north-eastern states, the India Post department is believed to have been planning to hire three more freighters for the same purpose.

According to sources, the three separate routes on which three hired freighters would fly are said to have been identified. However, they are yet to be finalized. One hurdle is said to have been coming in the way of the finalization— The destination of the route must be reached within six hours as the duty of freighter crews comes to an end in six hours. If the freighter takes more than six hours to reach its destination, it would be more costly for the department.

The proposed routes may be from Delhi to Mumbai via Nagpur, Bangalore to Chennai and Hyderabad to Kolkata. With the beginning of new projects, besides other parts of the country, north India and central India might reap the benefits of quick service of the postal department.

According to sources, postal department wants to quicken its services as private players (courier service providers) are giving a tough competition to the government-owned postal department. This is the reason why the postal department wants to end dependence on the railways. The second reason behind hiring more freighters is that the first experiment of postal department of hiring freighter for north-eastern states has been successful. In the beginning, the department was apprehending whether it would be able to collect 15 tones of postal material everyday as the said freighter has 15 tones load capacity.

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History of Japan's postal services, privatization

Posted by | Sep 30, 2007 | |

The following is the history of Japan’s postal services and key events related to the privatization of the services.

1871 — Japan’s modern post office system, modeled on the one in Britain, starts between Tokyo and Osaka.

1872 — Mail delivery becomes available throughout the nation.

1875 — The postal savings business starts

1877 — Japan joins the Universal Postal Union, an international network of postal services.

1900 — The Mail Law is enacted.

1916 — The postal life insurance business starts.

1949 — The Posts and Telecommunications Ministry is established.

1973 — The loan service begins for postal savings account holders.

1992 — Junichiro Koizumi becomes the posts and telecommunications minister.

1997 — Privatization of postal savings and insurance services is discussed as part of reform initiative under Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto.

2001 — The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications takes over postal services under the reorganization of government ministries.

2001 — Koizumi takes office as prime minister.

2003 — Japan Post starts operations as a state-backed postal services company while private-sector firms are allowed to launch the mail delivery business.

2004 — Koizumi’s Cabinet adopts a postal privatization plan.

2005 — The Diet rejects the privatization bill, prompting Koizumi to call a general election.

2005 — Koizumi’s Liberal Democratic Party scores a landslide victory in the election and the Diet passes the bill.

Oct. 1, 2007 — The government begins the 10-year process of Japan Post privatization.

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Chinese Cyber regulator considers plan for e-stamps

Posted by | Sep 28, 2007 | |

China’s e-mail users may one day have to stick a cyber stamp on their missives as the nation’s Internet regulator pushes for development of an electronic postal system.

The aim is not to raise revenue from postage charges but to fight the increase in junk mail, according to the China Internet Conference, the largest annual gathering for the country’s Internet industry, which concluded on Wednesday.

The e-stamp system would amount to an electronic mark implanted within an e-mail, containing information that could be used to identify the sender.

Ordinary users wouldn’t notice any difference, as only third-party organizations such as the anti-spam committee or government bodies would be able to decode and trace the mailer.

The benefit for e-mail users: the e-stamp would allow their mail to move faster through a “green passage” on the Web, and they wouldn’t need to worry about being mistakenly blocked by the receiver.

Senders of junk mail face fines up to 30,000 yuan (USD 3,947), according to an e-mail service regulation enacted in March last year.

Spam mail accounted for 58 percent of all messages received by Chinese e-mail users in the second quarter. Most of the mail promoted online shopping, schemes to make money on the Internet, sex toys or drugs. Those categories accounted for nearly 40 percent of all junk messages. Even worse, 11 percent of the spam also contained computer viruses, according to the Internet Society of China.

Though still serious, the 58-percent figure marked a six percentage point drop from the first quarter of 2006, the most obvious improvement among all countries in the period, said the ISC’s Wang.

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DHL to open new package drop-off centre in Alaska

Posted by | Sep 27, 2007 | |

The result of a joint effort by DHL Express Japan and Digital Oasys Inc. – a pioneer of ‘coin-operated business centers’ which provide convenient services for business travelers – this new Express Center is strategically located in the Akasaka Excel Hotel Tokyu, a convenient location in the heart of Akasaka – an area with numerous businesses and hotels.

The Akasaka Express Center is a one-minute walk from the Akasaka-mitsuke Station on the Tokyo Metro Ginza line and the Marunouchi line, providing easy access for customers to drop off and pick up their shipments on their way to work or while shopping. The DHL Akasaka Express Center is expected to meet the growing demand for convenient package and document delivery services.

DHL Japan will continue to pursue further convenience for customers through establishing Express Centers in various other convenient facilities where the demand for international express delivery services is high, centering around the business areas of major cities.

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