Japan Post will try to improve itself by creating 12 model post offices across Japan so employees at its 24,000 outlets can learn about cost cutting and better productivity, Japan Post President Masaharu Ikuta said in a recent interview. “We will arrange for each of (the 12 major) regional offices to create a model post office so that (the model of high productivity) can filter down into post offices nationwide,” Ikuta told Kyodo News.
Read MoreJapan Post said Friday it has decided to suspend its express mail service (EMS) to Nigeria. Japan Post said a total of 194 letters sent via EMS since the beginning of this year have been undelivered and that it will suspend EMS to Nigeria until a route to ensure such mail is delivered is confirmed. But Japan Post said it will continue to handle other types of mail to the African country.
Read MoreThe Japaneses posts ministry said Thursday it will allow five private courier service firms to conduct special mail-delivery business. Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Minister Toranosuke Katayama is expected to issue licenses to the five firms — Bike Kyubin Co., Sokuhai Co., Kyukago, Q-Post and Tokai Messenger Bb Inc. — on Friday, ministry officials said. The move comes after Japan Post, a new state-run corporation, took over mail delivery and postal savings April 1 from the government as part of postal service deregulation.
Read MoreAlmost 90% of respondents see no significant change in quality of service since Japan Post, a new state-run corporation, took over mail delivery and postal savings April 1 from the government, according to a poll released Wednesday. In the survey by Macromill Inc., a private Internet-based pollster, 86.0% of the 521 respondents reported finding no change in the quality of services. In addition, 86.3% said that their image of the postal services corporation has not changed.
Read MoreJapan Post, a public postal service corporation launched in April, plans to cut about 11,000 jobs by the end of March 2005, 3,000 more than planned by its predecessor the Postal Services Agency, it was learned Friday. The agency had aimed to cut 8,000 of its 140,000 workforce over the same period. The new public corporation is speeding up its rationalization program in the current severe business environment arising from the popularity of e-mail and the partial deregulation of postal services, informed sources told Jiji Press.
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