From: Richard Susilo
Date: Tue May 8, 2003 12:03 pm
Subject: Pos Jepang Bongkar Paket
Dan Kekayaan Pos Jepang (Baca Berita Nikkei di bawah)
Kini (jelasnya tak tahu) Pos Jepang mulai membongkar paket pos yang datang
dari luar Jepang, termasuk EMS, lalu diberikan cap khusus.
Lihat gambar berikut.
Hal ini dampak dari teror dunia dan saya perkirakan baru mulai dilakukan
tahun ini pembongkarabn paket pos di Jepang. tetapi setelah dibongkar,
mereka menutup dengan sangat rapi.
Richard Susilo
From: "Susilo Richard"
Date: Tue Apr 1, 2003 12:17 am
Subject: Japan Post Set To Compete More Fiercely With Private Firms
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Japan Post Set To Compete More Fiercely With Private Firms
TOKYO (Nikkei)--Japan Post, formerly known as the Postal Service Agency,
will start operations Tuesday with the largest shares of the nation's
markets for land transport as well as savings and insurance services.
The public entity, which will continue to enjoy special tax and other
treatment, is poised to break into the areas of business where its
private-sector counterparts are leading. This will pose a considerable
threat to private companies as viable entities.
In the mail delivery business, Japan Post and private-sector carriers such
as Yamato Transport Co. (9064) will try to break into each other's areas of
strength.
Japan Post will this month start offering a new service that falls
somewhere between a mail delivery service and a package delivery service.
Senders can mail correspondence and other items in a special envelope sold
for 500 yen, without attaching a postage stamp or worrying about the weight
limit.
Private companies will, in turn, bolster their direct mail service that
competes directly with Japan Post's personal correspondence delivery
service. Yamato Transport will effectively cut prices for its direct mail
delivery starting Tuesday. Sagawa Express Co. and Nippon Express Co. (9062)
are considering similar measures as well.
Nonetheless, private-sector carriers face considerable restrictions in
their direct mail service. They are, for instance, prohibited from handling
direct mail that does not specify receivers' names.
In the financial industry, private firms are voicing opposition to the
expansion of Japan Post's savings and life insurance operations,
complaining that competition with Japan Post is not taking place on a level
playing field. For example, Japan Post is exempted for the time being from
making contributions to state coffers, which are equivalent to corporate
taxes.
Private life insurers, in particular, are dead-set against the growth of
the public entity.
While life insurers have been hit hard financially by the ongoing stock
market downturn, Japan Post's predecessor increased the value of individual
policies in force on the back of the government's creditworthiness, raising
its market share of the domestic life insurance market to 11.9% in fiscal
2001. Its total assets accounted for more than 80% of combined
individual-policy assets at all commercial life insurers.
Japan Post "will compete for the same customers as private firms, but it
will play by different rules than us," complains Shinichi Yokoyama,
chairman of the Life Insurance Association of Japan.
In contrast, major banks are moving to strengthen cooperative ties with
Japan Post. Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp., for example, will ally with the
new entity in letting their customers use each other's ATMs. Quite a few
banks seem eager to use Japan Post's 24,000 post offices nationwide and tap
into the postal savings totaling more than 200 trillion yen.
But regional financial institutions with smaller asset bases remain
critical of Japan Post, fearing that the public entity will continue to
steal business from the private sector. They are particularly worried that
competition will heat up further if Japan Post decides to bolster its
postal savings services, which are popular in regional cities.
Meanwhile, companies in other areas of business are preparing to forge an
alliance aggressively with Japan Post. The prime example is convenience
store operators like Lawson Inc. (2651).
According to a Japan Franchise Association survey, 52.2% of consumers in
large metropolitan areas want convenience stores to offer mail delivery
services at night. To tap this demand from customers, Lawson has set up
mailboxes at some 7,600 outlets nationwide since January. It also plans to
open stores in some post offices in the greater Tokyo area by this June.
(The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday morning edition)
From: "Richard Susilo"
Date: Tue Apr 1, 2003 8:08 am
Subject: Japan Post Account Lifts BOJ Deposit Balance To Record Y34tln
Tuesday, April 1, 2003
Japan Post Account Lifts BOJ Deposit Balance To Record Y34tln
TOKYO (Nikkei)--The Bank of Japan on Tuesday guided the outstanding
balance of current-account deposits -- placed with the central bank
by private banks -- to a record 33.70 trillion yen, about 2.8
trillion yen higher than the previous day.
Japan Post, which took over postal operations from the Postal
Services Agency on April 1, opened its account with the BOJ on the
same day. This factor, coupled with social security-related payments
made by the government to the private sector through banks, also
helped boost the outstanding balance.
Japan Post's deposit balance and social security-related payments,
totaling 6 trillion yen, are estimated to have flowed into the money
market.
At regular monetary operations in the early morning and shortly after
noon, the BOJ drained a total of 2.5 trillion yen worth of funds from
the money market.
At its policy board meeting on March 5, the central bank agreed that
Japan Post will pool its deposits -- the equivalent of reserve
deposits by banks -- at the BOJ.
At the same time, the central bank decided to raise the daily target
for the overall balance of current-account deposits by 2 trillion yen
to 17-22 trillion yen, starting April 1, expecting some 2 trillion
yen of daily deposits added by Japan Post.
In reality, however, the postal authority is likely to have deposited
a larger amount of money on Tuesday than the BOJ had expected.
(The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Tuesday evening edition)