The Post Department of the Communications Authority of Thailand (CAT) has finished drafting its master plan aimed at protecting its business from overseas entrants when the market starts undergoing deregulation in 2005.
Read MorePrime Minister Junichiro Koizumi on Monday showed a flexible stance on possible amendments to a set of bills for postal services deregulation. I don’t mind about technical details as long as the private-sector entry will not be barred, Koizumi told reporters after a meeting with Taro Aso, chairman of the Policy Research Council of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).
Read MoreThe Communication Authority of Thailand bids to clean up its balance sheet as it gears up for privatisation of mail unit. Sending a letter within the country will soon cost a baht more as the postal service gears up to clean up its books and stand on its own feet ahead of privatisation.
Read MoreA second transportation company made it known Wednesday that onerous conditions attached to a postal deregulation bill will keep it from entering the mail delivery business.
An official from Seino Transportation Co. made the announcement during a meeting of the public management, home affairs, posts and telecommunications division of the LDP’s Policy Research Council.
Toshiaki Hashimoto, a senior Seino Transportation official, was quoted as telling the meeting that it would be difficult for the firm to offer nationwide mail delivery services at the uniform rate used by the government-run postal service.
“The postal service has infrastructure and systems that were developed over a long period of time,” he said, “and it is difficult for a private firm to make investments to that extent.”
Delivery firms say the failure to define mail hinders liberalization. Ambiguity surrounding the definition of postal mail has long confounded potential newcomers to the mail delivery sector and is now threatening to derail postal deregulation, one of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s pet reform projects.
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