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About 75% of the post offices across Japan have improperly conducted mandatory alcohol and health checks on delivery drivers after four cases of drunk driving by postal drivers were found in fiscal 2024. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/24/japan/japan-post-improper-checks/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #mlit #internalaffairsministry #japanpost #postalservices #alcohol #health
https://www.alojapan.com/1255679/improper-alcohol-and-health-checks-on-drivers-found-at-75-of-japan-post-offices/ Improper alcohol and health checks on drivers found at 75% of Japan Post offices #alcohol #health #InternalAffairsMinistry #Japan #JapanNews #JapanPost #mlit #news #PostalServices About 2,300, or 75%, of the post offices across Japan have improperly conducted mandatory alcohol and health checks on delivery drivers, Japan Post said Wednesday. The irregularities included fabricating records without conducting the checks. “We thought the checks…
The Fair Trade Commission issued administrative guidance to Japan Post last year for responding inadequately to a subcontractor request to pass on rising costs, in the same month as it received guidance a separate issue. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/08/companies/japan-post-subcontracting-fees/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #japanpost #postalservices #ftc #delivery
The Fair Trade Commission issued administrative guidance to Japan Post in June last year for collecting penalty fees from subcontractors without explaining them adequately, people familiar with the matter have said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/01/07/companies/japan-post-administrative-guidance/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #companies #ftc #japanpost #postalservices
Japan Post is taking Yamato Transport to court for ¥12 billion ($76 million) due to the latter's backing out of a collaboration between them. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/12/24/japan/crime-legal/japan-post-lawsuit-yamato/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanpost #postalservices #yamato #delivery #japanesecourts
Japan Post announced that it will raise postage rates for letters and postcards in October. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/13/japan/japan-post-october-postage-hike/ #japan #japanpost #postalservices
Japan Post plans to raise postage rates for sealed items and postcards by 30% as early as October, a move likely to accelerate the decline in the tradition of exchanging New Year's greeting cards. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/06/07/japan/postage-hikes/ #japan #japanpost #postalservices #nengajo
_The Evening Post_, 14 Apr 1924:
SPEEDING UP MAILS
THE NEW PACIFIC SERVICE
FORTNIGHTLY DEPARTURES
The Union Company’s #mail #steamers in the Vancouver and San Francisco services are now running on the revised time-table, which is speeding up both services. The Tahiti, which arrived in Wellington to-day, left San Francisco on 26th March, at 12.30 p.m., and cast anchor in this port at 6.25 o’clock this morning—making the run in 18 days 18 hours, roughly about two days quicker than the time of the average journey in the past. On the southern run from America and Canada, the steamers of both services reach Auckland and Wellington on a Monday, instead of a Friday. The mail which reached here today will be in Christchurch to-morrow morning and Dunedin to-morrow night. Under the old arrangement, the mails were not available to the public, other than through the private boxes, until the Monday. Now the week-end break is non-existent. Hitherto there have been twelve trips in the year between New Zealand and San Francisco and Vancouver. Under the changed contract, there will be thirteen trips.…
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19240414.2.79
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Senators Mike Rounds and John Thune, along with U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson, have written a letter to Postmaster General Louis DeJoy advocating for the preservation of the Huron mail processing facility. #KXLG
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Royal Mail delivers for its shareholders, but not for us | Royal Mail | The Guardian
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Fujitsu and Britain’s Post Office always knew about software errors that led to the wrongful conviction of hundreds of people for theft and false accounting, the company’s European head told a public inquiry. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/01/20/companies/fujitsu-post-office-bugs/?utm_content=bufferbc666&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #fujitsu #tech #uk #postalservices
Fujitsu has stayed silent about the Post Office scandal, which has done nothing but fuel public outrage in the U.K. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2024/01/15/japan/fujitsu-silence-post-office-scandal/?utm_content=bufferc474b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #commentary #japan #fujitsu #uk #postalservices #tech
The U.K.'s Post Office scandal is a story about flawed software, a 1990s state contract worth billions and now the intense pressure on Japanese IT company Fujitsu to set out what it knew and when about errors that led to bookkeeping shortfalls that weren’t real. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/01/13/companies/uk-post-office-fujitsu/?utm_content=bufferef551&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #fujitsu #uk #postalservices #tech
The CEO of Fujitsu's U.K. unit will testify before a lower house committee over the Post Office scandal in which branch managers were falsely charged with theft due to the tech company's faulty accounting software. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/01/12/companies/fujitsu-uk-unit-ceo-to-testify/?utm_content=buffer654b6&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #fujitsu #uk #postalservices #tech
Fujitsu is in the crosshairs of British lawmakers over its faulty software that resulted in hundreds of local post office managers being wrongly convicted for theft and false accounting between 1999 and 2005. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2024/01/11/companies/japan-fujitsu-uk-post-office-scandal/?utm_content=bufferfd8f9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #companies #fujitsu #uk #postalservices
Japan plans to increase its stamp price for the first time in 30 years in response to losses incurred by the postal company as a result of fewer deliveries. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2023/12/18/economy/japan-postal-fee-hike/?utm_content=buffera4830&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #business #economy #japanpost #postalservices #inflation
