Tag: Japan

Japan's Postal Services Agency eager to tie up with Western firms

Posted by | Jun 14, 2002 | |

Japan’s Postal Services Agency chief Hiroshi Matsui on Friday expressed the agency’s eagerness to tie up with U.S. and European firms in the field of international express delivery services.
Some Western firms have made tie-up approaches to the agency, and information and opinions are now being exchanged, although nothing specific has been decided yet, Matsui said.
The Japanese agency currently offers express delivery services for documents and articles for 117 countries and regions.

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Japan's Yamato Transport: Cheaper Mail Delivery?

Posted by | Jun 13, 2002 | |

Yamato Transport Co. (J.YMT or 9064) is considering introducing by next April a cheaper mail delivery service to rival Japan’s public postal service, a company spokesman said Friday. Though the company has not finalized details of the new service, it hopes to revise its fee system and introduce a cheaper service that can compete with the Y80-a-letter delivery fee charged by Japan’s public post offices, the official said. Currently Yamato’s lowest mail service fee is Y160 for the delivery of catalogs, brochures and magazines.

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Delivery firms unhappy with postal corp. bills

Posted by | Jun 13, 2002 | |

Most door-to-door parcel delivery companies in the nation remain dissatisfied with a set of bills designed to create a public postal corporation.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi reiterated his determination to have the bills passed to promote private sector entry into the postal service, when speaking at a House of Representatives Committee on Public Management on Tuesday.

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Koizumi falters on postal reform

Posted by | Jun 12, 2002 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appeared to make a major concession Tuesday on passage of a package of bills designed to reform the national postal system.

He previously had said the reforms would be a “milepost toward eventual privatization.”

But in a Lower House committee deliberating the postal system legislation Tuesday, Koizumi said no limits should be placed on the debate following the shift in status of the Postal Services Agency to a government-owned public corporation from April 2003.

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Yamoto transport president raps mail delivery bill

Posted by | Jun 11, 2002 | |

President Keiji Aritomi on Tuesday criticized a letter delivery bill for tightening the government’s grip on the business.
Before a House of Representatives committee, Aritomi said the bill would restrict even the catalog delivery service, which is now open to the private sector.
Yamato Transport, Japan’s parcel delivery company, has made clear its intention of not joining the letter delivery service that will be open to the private sector if the bill clears parliament.

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