mercedo's Journal: Japan Post Privatised?

Today the bill for the privatisation of Japan Post passed in a 5 ballots margin through the House of Representatives (Lower House).

Current government has been run by Mr Prime Minister the flagship of the Reformers, he is the very man who represents the libertarian view, indeed he is a very liberal man.

Many people including the members of Democtatic Party of Japan, thought to be 'liberal ' in traditional meaning has been strongly opposed to the privatisation of postal services, but their reason to oppose the idea is really ambiguous.

When very liberal person took contol of government, the opposition parties are 'opposing for the sake of opposition', indeed ridiculous.

Government owned corporation or private?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Might have hit submit by accident there- but it should allow me to post again. Really private, or government owned corporation? In the United States we have 3 major corporations doing this job- two are privately owned, one is government owned. All three are profitable- none have taken government money as long as I've been alive. The privately held ones are about twice as expensive to ship by- but they offer more insurance. The government owned one hasn't raised stamp prices in the last 3 years.

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Re:Government owned corporation or private?

[mercedo]

I might say the privatisation of Japan Post would not have nothing to do with the recent development of information technology -especially in the Internet, personal letters were thought not supposed to be handled by private company. The reason Japan Post remained to be public. But now many people prefer using email or telephone in communication.

Japan telephone& telegraph privatised, Japan railway privatised, Japan Highway privatised. Japan Post is the last major company that is waiting to be privatise

Re:Government owned corporation or private?

[Marxist Hacker 42]

Railways, Telephones, Telegraph, ISPs, and even sometimes roadways (depending on the government and the real reason for building the road) can all benefit from privatization. This is due to the technology involved- and how new technology can reduce costs. But the Post Office is relatively old tech- in essence it hasn't changed in the 40 years since the invention of the Jet Engine and the Automatic Sorting Machine, and until we have matter-energy conversion technology, there isn't a huge technical leap pos