Tag: Japan

Japan sees 1st private-sector mail

Posted by | May 31, 2003 | |

Freight company Tokai Messenger Bb launched a mail delivery service Sunday, making it the first private-sector firm to take part in services that have been controlled by the state for 130 years, as part of Japan’s efforts to privatize postal services. The company, based in Nagoya, has acquired a license to deliver mail within three hours in the central areas of the capital of Aichi Prefecture in central Japan. “Most of our customers have been advertisement agencies and design companies, but we can increase the handling of such public documents as tax statements from now,” Tokai Messenger President Kenichiro Imai said. Seven other firms have been licensed by the Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Ministry for limited mail delivery services since they were opened to the private sector in April. They are slated to begin services in August.

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Japan Post to ask for return of 400,000 yen per person

Posted by | May 29, 2003 | |

Japan Post said Thursday it will ask 19,013 people to return a total of about 7.5 billion yen as it failed to charge taxes on their postal savings. The request applies mostly to senior citizens having fixed-amount savings accounts at post offices under the “maruyu” small savings tax exemption system. Japan Post inadvertently failed to apply taxes to savings above the tax exemption limit of 3.5 million yen. It estimates that taxes payable as a result average about 400,000 yen per person. Japan Post will pay penalty taxes.

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Japan's post office to cut 17,000 jobs over next two years

Posted by | May 20, 2003 | |

Japan’s recently reorganized post office will cut about 17,000 jobs, or 6 percent of its total work force, over the next two years, an official said Tuesday. Japan Post will reduce its headcount to 263,000 from 280,000 by the end of March 2005 as part of a business plan to be formally announced Wednesday, said spokeswoman Takumi Niwa. Niwa declined to give details ahead of the announcement.

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Japan Post to send 45 staff to foreign firms for training

Posted by | May 20, 2003 | |

Japan Post plans to send 45 employees to internationally acclaimed corporations in the fields of mail, parcel and cargo delivery and financial services during a four-year period starting this fall, Japan Post officials said Tuesday. Japan Post is now asking such firms as FedEx Corp., Merrill Lynch & Co., both of the United States, ING Bank of the Netherlands, and Deutsche Bank and Deutsche Post of Germany to accept trainees from Japan, the officials said.

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Japan Post resumes express mail

Posted by | May 20, 2003 | |

Japan Post on Tuesday resumed its express mail service (EMS) to Nigeria after suspending it on April 25 due to delivery problems, Japan Post officials said. Although exact causes for the delivery problem have yet to be sorted out, Japan Post decided to resume the service as it can now ensure delivery routes between the Nigerian postal authorities and airline firms, the officials said.

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