SHENZHEN will build what it has touted to be the most advanced postal services and logistics support centre in Asia.
The State Post Office and Guangdong Post Office will invest millions of dollars in building the facility, which will cover 1.18 million square feet in the Shenzhen Aviation Logistics Park, according to the Shenzhen Commercial Daily.
Read MoreCitizens have raised a great amount of concern on the Notice issued by Pakistan Postal Department which ‘warns any individual / agency / institution / organization against sending any letter through any means other than through the Post Office, as this would be against the Post Office Act of 1898’.
The notice states that ‘any item falling in the category of letter mail can not be accepted / transmitted / delivered by any other agency including cargo services or cargo service being operated by the airlines / owner of the transport companies. Any contravention attracts penal action’.
In a major test of China’s willingness to maintain free and open markets as a new member of the World Trade Organization, the state-run postal monopoly has issued an order that could virtually shut down the operations of United Parcel Service, Federal Express and other express mail companies in China.
China Post announced it would limit express delivery by private companies to articles more than 500 grams –1.1 pounds — require all prices to be higher than the postal authority’s and forbid delivery to offices of the government, military or Communist Party or of any item addressed to an individual.
A Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel discussing postal deregulation agreed at a meeting Wednesday to place lower priority on a bill allowing private firms to enter mail services and to focus on a bill for a new public entity to take over state-run postal services.
The move goes against Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, an advocate of privatization of postal services, who had been eyeing discussions to be held simultaneously on both bills for submission to the Diet by late April.
Posts minister Toranosuke Katayama said Sunday the government will overcome opposition from some ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lawmakers and submit to the Diet by the end of April two bills aimed at opening up mail services to the private sector in 2003.
“LDP members always hold heated debates but they will unite in the end,” said Katayama, minister of public management, home affairs, posts and telecommunications.
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