All in all, the Japanese preference for sticking with bank or post-office deposits seems entirely rational.
It embeds post-office workers deep in local communities, and gives the post-office customer relationships that commercial banks would die for.
The other thing I noticed, only after I had read the letter through, was the absence of a post-office box address.
But the main post-office workers' union is strongly opposed to even a partial share sale and has demonstrated in the past its ability to sway public opinion.
UBS, preferring to keep their cash in local post-office accounts.
The convenience stores' ambitions in banking are now such a threat to yucho's payments business that some senior post-office officials count them, and not the banks, as their chief competition.
Less memorable, but equally unpopular, has been the steady drumbeat of post-office closures, disappearing village shops and, more recently, the threat of shutting schools in the name of administrative efficiency.
Many of his party colleagues are heavily indebted to the grassroots organisation run by regional post-office chiefs, which can be relied upon to get out the vote come election time.
Mr Hashimoto's biggest climbdown has been over post-office privatisation.
All his most cherished plans reform of road-building, post-office privatisation, deregulation of services, a rethink of Japan's outdated security policy, attempts to tackle the huge budget deficit have been eviscerated by his own side.
If you're unsure whether an ad is sincere, you can protect your identity when responding by providing a resume with a post-office box address instead of your home address, says Ms. Dixon.
The mailman delivers to a post-office box about 10 miles away at the only restaurant-bar in Pioneertown, a tiny dot created by Hollywood in the 1940s as a backdrop for filming westerns.
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The House bill, which allows for more sweeping changes that would enable the post office to cut costs sooner, has met resistance from some lawmakers who are concerned it would lead to slower service and more post-office closings.
Shortly, you will be able to open an app and have your car come pick you up wherever you are or go pick up a family member when you can't or go to the grocery store for you, the post-office, etc, etc.
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On top of these six categories is the cost of the other functions of government including all of the internal departments (DOJ, Homeland Security, EPA, Commerce, Interior, State, etc.) and the off budget expenses of the agencies (FNMA, FHA, GNMA, FHLMC, Post-Office, Amtrak, etc.).
When customers--whether they be patients, parents of kids in school or those who use the post office-are not in charge of a service, severe problems result.
The European Commission launched antitrust investigations into Deutsche Post , Germany's state-run post office.
The sub-post office is often the last business left in poor areas after other shops close.
To prepare for all this, the President directed on January 20 the creation of a post-war planning office.
However, a spokeswoman for the Post Office - where savings products are backed by the Bank of Ireland - said there had been an increase in customers since the Irish government's announcement.
"While I don't think that a separate office for post-marketing surveillance is likely, a strengthened Office of Drug Safety is almost a certainty, " says David Kessler, a former FDA commissioner who is now a dean at the University of California, San Francisco.
Volunteers took it in turns to act as postmistress in the temporary post office, each donating their salary from the post office to the fund-raising effort.
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Typically, it has been Japanese households that have footed the government's bills, investing via the government-owned post office.
Everyone would like, I think, to see a robust postal service -- the Post Office represents the nation at home.
The number of armed robberies has fallen by around 45% since 2001, and bank robberies and post office hold-ups are now almost unheard of.
APACs, which co-ordinates payments systems, was preparing to admit its first non-bank member on March 23rd (even if it is merely the government-owned post office).
The other hope for expanding Penn Station rests with Amtrak if it could start moving some of its operations across Eighth Avenue into the 1.4-million-square-foot post office building.
Residents of a Sheffield suburb are to open their own full-time post office after facing a walk of more than a mile to access services for the past year.
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