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Koizumi says postal bills mark first step towards postal reforms

Posted by | Jun 11, 2002 | |

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi said Tuesday a set of four postal services deregulation bills being debated at the Diet mark a first step toward postal reforms.
“The reform bills mark a first step,” Koizumi told the House of Representatives Committee on Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications, reiterating his determination to privatize the state-run postal services.
The bills include one that would allow private firms to begin offering mail services under certain conditions and one to establish a new public corporation in 2003 to take over the three state-run postal services — mail, postal savings and “kampo” life insurance.

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Japan's Postal Unions Prepare for Privatization

Posted by | Jun 7, 2002 | |

Japan Postal Workers’ Union (Zentei) and All Japan Postal Labor Union (Zenyusei) are hammering out the final details of a plan for an equal merger by March, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reports in its Saturday edition. The unions plan to join forces to cope with the growing trend toward management streamlining ahead of next April’s launch of the public postal corporation. Inasmuch as Zentei and Zenyusei are solid supporters of the Democratic Party of Japan and the Liberal Party, respectively, their integration is likely to influence how the two opposition parties struggle together as allies. Assuming the merger goes through, the new union would be the third-largest in Japan.

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Motorcycle couriers fear rules block them from mail market (Japan)

Posted by | Jun 5, 2002 | |

Motorcycle couriers are considering offering express mail services in limited areas to take advantage of a bill before the Diet that would allow private companies to offer postal services under certain circumstances. The best chance they have of qualifying, however, is to guarantee that they can deliver mail entrusted to them within three hours-a condition that some in the industry say would be difficult to meet

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Japan Reaffirms Opposition to Full Postal Privatization

Posted by | Jun 5, 2002 | |

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) Thursday reaffirmed its opposition to a set of postal deregulation bills for full privatization of postal services, Kyodo News reported Thursday.
The move by the LDP Policy Research Council’s Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications Division came two days after a House of Representatives committee on postal services kicked off debate over the bills.
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi has long championed full liberalization of the postal services, saying the bills would be a milestone.
The issue of whether to privatize the postal services is highly political, as there are many lawmakers both in the ruling and opposition parties with vested interests in the postal services — mail, postal savings and life insurance.
The bills are designed to allow private firms to offer mail services under certain conditions and to establish a new public corporation in 2003 to take over the three state-run postal services.

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