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Japanese Yamato Transport to cancel deal with Lawson

Posted by | Aug 18, 2004 | |

Yamato Transport Co. has said that it will cancel three months later its parcel collection entrustment deal with major convenience store chain Lawson Inc. due to Lawson’s decision to do business with Japan Post.

In the past six months, Yamato held talks with Lawson, which has proposed handling parcels on behalf of both Yamato and Japan Post, a public corporation, Yamato officials said. But the negotiations broke down on Tuesday, the officials said.

Lawson announced Wednesday that it will start accepting in mid-November parcels at its convenience stores on behalf of Japan Post.

Yamato said that it rejected Lawson’s proposal out of concern that the quality of its parcel delivery service might deteriorate if the convenience store chain handles parcels both for Yamato and Japan Post.

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Lawson to handle Japan Post parcels at all outlets

Posted by | Aug 18, 2004 | |

Major convenience store operator Lawson Inc. will start handling Japan Post parcels at its 7,800 outlets nationwide in November, Lawson officials said.

Lawson exclusively handles packages for Yamato Transport Co. but told the courier it will end their partnership. The company has not replied yet, the officials said.

Lawson already has business ties with Japan Post. It has set up mailboxes in its outlets and opened stores inside post offices.

Lawson decided to switch partners in the parcel business because it believes a tie-up with the public corporation, which is to be privatised in stages starting in 2007, would have many advantages, the officials said.

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LDP panel holds first public hearing on Japan postal privatisation

Posted by | Aug 18, 2004 | |

A Liberal Democratic Party panel on postal services held its first regional public hearing on Wednesday in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, to hear the concerns of rural residents who fear that the government-led privatisation may erode the quality of postal services.

The LDP panel also plans to hold pubic hearings in Aomori and Kumamoto by next week and to summarize the LDP’s position on the privatisation issue before a Cabinet reshuffle expected next month.

The panel, led by House of Representatives member Jin Murai, hopes to provide counter proposals to the two main components of the government-led plan to privatise the postal service — dividing postal services into several entities and turning Japan Post into a joint stock corporation.

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Japan Post eyes global deliveries: Corporation starting up Singapore service ahead of privatization in 2007

Posted by | Aug 16, 2004 | |

Traditionally focused on the domestic market where it enjoys a monopoly on mail services, Japan Post is turning its attention to overseas businesses, preparing to expand in the global market. It aims to become a major player in the world transport business after it is privatized in 2007.

The corporation plans to start by the end of this month its first international transport business, in partnership with Sankyu Inc., a major transport company. The service will be located in Singapore and import/deliver personal computer peripherals to consumers in Japan.

In another overseas initiative, Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta met in June with Liu Andong, director of China’s Postal Bureau, in Beijing, to propose that Japan and China cooperate in a mail service to increase the postal business between the two countries.

The two stopped short of signing an agreement, due partly to hesitation on the Chinese side. But Ikuta’s visit paved the way for deepening relations between the postal authorities in the two countries, sources said.

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Privatised Japan Post to be under jurisdiction of Three government agencies

Posted by | Aug 14, 2004 | |

Units of a privatised Japan Post are expected to come under the jurisdiction of three separate government agencies to ensure equal competition with the private sector, government sources said.

Japan Post is currently under the supervision of the Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry.

After privatisation, a 10-year process the government hopes to begin in 2007, only postal business would stay under the ministry’s jurisdiction, they said.

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