Tag: Japan

DHL Japan shortens standard delivery times for customers

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

DHL has reduced its delivery times from two days to one day for documents and packages destined for major cities in China, Korea and Australia, where many Japanese companies are expanding their presence, and to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates – the center of trade in the Middle East. These shortened delivery times are made possible by new flights and improved collection and delivery efficiency in Japan and overseas.

DHL already provides next-day delivery to Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Suzhou in China, as well as Seoul and Incheon in Korea. Now, by expanding its next-day delivery to major cities such as Tianjin and Hangzhou in China, and Daegu and Busan in Korea, DHL has further increased its industry-leading delivery speed in Asia Pacific and the Middle East region.

This reduction in standard delivery times has been achieved through the ongoing reinforcement of DHL’s ground infrastructure in Japan and the strengthening of DHL’s air network through the introduction of new flights to meet the increasing demand for international delivery.

In June this year, DHL has also opened its expanded gateway in the international cargo area – located adjacent to the runway – at Osaka’s Kansai International Airport. With the new facility, a threefold increase in cargo handling capacity has been realized through the introduction of the airport’s first automated sorting system.

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Postal services in Japan 2007

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

In fiscal 2006 the Japanese postal service reported total mail volume of 24,677.24 million pieces, down 0.6% or 141.38 million pieces from the same period last year. Annual per capita mail volume was 194 items, two pieces less than the previous year. First-Class letters and Second-Class mail made up about 90% of the total volume of mail, and accounted for 21,094.13 million items, down 1.7% from the previous year. Total parcel post volume was 2,317.41 million pieces, up 242.44 million pieces from the previous year due to increased use by department stores and mail-order companies. Operating revenues (excluding internal use by Japan Post) for 2006 was 1.8543 trillion yen, down 0.1%, or 1.3 billion yen from the same period last year. Overall, Japan Post recorded a net income of 942.5 billion yen, down 990.5 billion yen from the previous year’s 1,933.1billion yen. This decline was as a result of incorporating extraordinary gains and losses into net ordinary income, transferring an additional 177.4 billion yen to the policyholders’ dividend reserve in the Postal Life Insurance Service and because money trust management income in the Postal Savings Service fell 1,184.2 billion yen.

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Ex-official eyed in Japan Post deals / Former bureaucrat heads firm operating 70 postal cafes, shops

Posted by | Sep 18, 2007 | |

A private company, whose president was a career official at the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry, won contracts granted at the discretion of Japan Post to operate 70 of the 122 cafeterias and shops at 61 of the Kanpo no Yado lodging facilities run by Japan Post for policy holders of postal insurance, it was learned Monday.

The company took over most of the 70 cafeterias and shops from a foundation that was found to have offered cushy jobs to retired bureaucrats via a practice called amakudari after that operator was disbanded as part of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s reform of public-service corporations.

The private company, Yume Kanpo Service, is located in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo.

Annual sales of the 70 businesses are estimated at 8 billion yen.

Japan Post takes between 10 and 20 percent of the profits, and the rest goes to Yume Kanpo Service. Each Kanpo no Yado has a cafeteria and a store. Japan Post directly operates five of the other 52 shops and another 35 companies won contracts in a similar manner to run 47 shops. Under the accountancy law, Japan Post is required to put the contracts out to public tender.

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Privatized Japan Post gets new business model

Posted by | Sep 17, 2007 | |

Introducing Toyota Motor Corp.’s business methods to Japan Post Corporation, which will be privatized on Oct. 1, is the next challenge for Norio Kitamura, a former Toyota Motor Italia president who will be the chairman and chief executive officer of Japan Post Service Co., one of four operating firms in charge of postal services.

Japan Post will be divided into a holding company and four operating firms handling postal delivery, customer service, postal savings and postal insurance.

Kitamura was the president of the Italian subsidiary of Toyota. for 10 years until June 2006, when he was urged to take the Japan Post position by Toyota’s former chairman, Hiroshi Okuda, then a member of the Council on Economic and Fiscal Policy.

He was chosen because of his remarkable achievements at the Italian subsidiary, but his experience at Toyota, which is famous for kaizen (operational improvements), is also expected to contribute to better postal services.

Although the postal services are different from the automobile industry, “the basics of business are the same,” Kitamura said.

In the fiscal year that ended in March 31, the total operating income of Japan Post was 19.6 trillion yen. Income from postal delivery was 1.9 trillion yen, an increase of 3.3 billion yen from the previous fiscal year due to increased shipments of small packages and international mail. However, the total quantity of domestic and international mail and packages has decreased over the past five years.

Increasing value of small packages and international mail, which only account for about 10 percent of the total quantity of postal material, is also a key for the postal delivery business. USD = 115.090 JPY

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