Japan Post Privatised?
2005.07.06 0:07

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.
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Government owned corporation or private?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.07.06 4:32 (#12987999) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
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.Of course, as technology advances, the Post becomes more and more obsolete. E-mail and nifty digital broadband applications take the place of regular mail. Spam takes the place of junk, or commercial, mail. And now the three dementional computer operated fabrication machines are taking the place of parcels- just send a 3-d image or CAD drawing and manufacture it on the other end.I'd say by 2150, all of these corporations will be extinct.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both!
Re:Government owned corporation or private?(Score:1)
by mercedo (822671) on 2005.07.08 1:03 (#13004265) (http://slashdot.org/~mercedo/journal/109855 Last Journal: 2005.09.27 11:22)
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 privatised. I just wonder how many corporations were public owned as if Japan were a socialist country, indeed Japan used to be much more similar to socialist country than America is and still Japan post being privatise, large portion of its shares are owned by government. It takes more years to be truely privately owned.--Ancient Greek Philosophers -18c Enlightenment Thinkers -Slashdotters [ Parent ]
Re:Government owned corporation or private?(Score:2)
by Marxist Hacker 42 (638312) * <seebert@seeberfamily.org> on 2005.07.08 3:42 (#13006191) (http://www.informationr.us/ Last Journal: 2005.09.28 6:49)
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 possible in this area in the near future. Due to that, the increased cost of being profitable is likely to result in an increase of postal rates upon privatization- and no real way to become more efficient or reduce the cost of transportation.--Two chances to become a Dictator- and Bush blew them both!