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Read MoreChina Post will launch the
priority package mail service starting August 1, an official with the State
Postal Bureau (SPB) announced here Tuesday.
DHL-Sinotrans Express Ltd., a
joint venture between a worldwide express delivery service provider and a
Chinese company, said it expects its business to grow more than 30 percent
this year despite a slowdown in the global economy.
Bank of Japan Gov. Masaru Hayami may use vague terms when he talks
about financial policy, but he is crystal clear when he refers to
the controversial issue of privatization of postal services. Hayami told a meeting of managers from the central bank’s branches
held on Wednesday that from the standpoint of maximizing the
vitality of private-sector financial institutions, it is important
to reevaluate the future direction of public banking services. His remark was apparently a clarification of his support for the
privatization of postal savings, long advocated by Prime Minister
Junichiro Koizumi as part of a comprehensive review of the postal
services. Hayami is seen as identifying himself with Koizumi’s
reform initiative, the centerpiece of which is a comprehensive
review of postal services
Postal services is not a dying industry despite the severe decline
in traditional mail services caused by the Internet and recent
emergence of SMS service, a high-level meeting of Asean postal
service providers was told yesterday.
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