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  • Japan Post to end Saturday standard mail delivery

    Japan Post to end Saturday standard mail delivery

    Japan’s Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has accepted a proposal from a government panel to end Saturday delivery for standard mail in the country due to a labor shortage at Japan Post Co. and a drop in demand because of increased use of the internet.

    The ministry will seek to amend the law this fall, with Saturday deliveries potentially terminated next year. The panel also proposed that next-day delivery for standard mail be ended.

    Japan Post, a unit of Japan Post Holdings Co., has been calling for a review to trim standard mail service hours to five days a week from the current six, to address the workforce shortage. The company estimates the changes will lift its profit from the postal service business by ¥62.5bn (US$594m) through reduced labor costs, which are on the rise due to the staffing shortfall.

    Saturday delivery for parcels is to remain, along with express and registered mail. The postal service unit is considering a 10% cut in charges for express mail in return for discontinuing Saturday mail service. The panel also proposed extending the standard delivery time limit of three days to four days to maintain stable services.

  • Singapore’s postal service reinvents itself for the digital age

    Singapore’s postal service reinvents itself for the digital age

    When a German lingerie model needed to promote bras on-line in Malaysia, it turned to Singapore’s almost 200-year-old nationwide postal service.

    Singapore Publish constructed an internet site, developed a advertising technique and now delivers packages for the corporate, Triumph Worldwide. The customer support group even solutions questions on sizing.

    As postage stamps give solution to keyboard clicks, SingPost is redefining the position of the letter service, by making a one-stop store for retailers’ e-commerce wants in Asia.

    In South Korea, SingPost helps to promote Levi’s denims. In Singapore, it’s stocking Toshiba laptops. In Malaysia, it’s delivering Adidas sneakers.

    With conventional mail providers in decline, publish workplaces around the globe are scrambling to reinvent themselves for the digital age.

    “Sitting on that burning platform, we appeared round and stated, ‘The place might we develop?’” stated Wolfgang Baier, the chief government of SingPost.

    Japan Submit is shopping for the most important personal package deal and freight supply firm in Australia, Toll Holdings, in a bid to create a rival to UPSand FedEx. America Postal Service, which misplaced $5.5 billion final yr, is offering Sunday deliveries for Amazon. Australia Publish is working with the Chinese language Web big Alibaba to assist native companies join with shoppers in China.

    “There are a minimum of two enterprise developments unfolding earlier than us. One is the dying of mail,” stated Frank Lavin, chief government of the e-commerce consultancy Export Now. “The second is that this growth in e-commerce.”

    SingPost’s makeover is among the many most formidable. In addition to its common postal duties, it provides a basket of providers for corporations, together with web site improvement, on-line advertising, customer support and, in fact, package deal supply. Following the Amazon mannequin, it’s constructing a community of 24 warehouses in 12 nations to stockpile items for corporations. The e-commerce group is staffed with former Silicon Valley executives.

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  • Japan Post, Rakuten to offer delivery lockers

    Japan Post, Rakuten to offer delivery lockers

    Japan Post Co. and e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. are teaming up to offer lockers where customers can pick up items purchased online at their own convenience, sources said on Thursday.

    The new service, being arranged to start in April at about 30 locations including post offices in Tokyo, will allow clients of the major internet mall to have items delivered without revealing their addresses.

    The two firms will consider adding locations across Japan after the limited launch, the sources said.

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