But the government has warned the CWU to bear in mind that there are alternatives to the postal system.
The company believed that the key to building mail would be to get financial institutions and utilities to use the postal system.
Mr Snow is due to have talks with Japanese Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki on Monday night to discuss the country's reform agenda, including privatising the postal system.
Finally, four years later, he tried to break the postal system into four companies and privatise them, albeit in a slow process due to last until 2017.
According to Roger Wallis of London's City University Business School, Europe's collecting societies work rather like the postal system: one price for all destinations, one administrative charge for everybody.
The postal system allowed companies to communicate across continents.
The Mail believes the US postal system is facing "paralysis" as fears over the disease spread.
Reprivatisation of bank lending should proceed naturally as commercial banks offer positive nominal interest rates and bid funds away from the postal saving system.
The report criticizes back-tracking on the earlier (Koizumi government) decision to privatize the Japan postal savings system.
But Germany's Postbank can transfer money almost anywhere in the world within two working days for only a nominal fee, and at no cost to the recipient (if there is a postal- banking system in the receiving country).
"Although the law has been changed over the years to strengthen the system - introducing checks on postal votes and making registering to vote more secure starting next summer - our research shows voters are still concerned about electoral fraud, " Jenny Watson, the watchdog's chair, said.
Cepheid has a partnership with Northrop Grumman (nyse: NOC - news - people ) to supply the Biohazard Detection System to the U.S. Postal Service.
Weaver said public confidence in the mail system is essential to the survival of the Postal Service and the economy.
You can get an emergency copy of Harry Potter and Prisoner of Azkaban, for instance, and pay almost exactly what Amazon.com charges for a copy sent via the U.S. Postal System.
But the ideas that have leaked into the Japanese press suggest that the government intends to obtain funds mainly by borrowing from the state-run postal savings system, and to use them in two different ways.
After all, it is said, the huge debt overhang from the country's rotten banking system and the actuarial deceit of its postal- and insurer-based retirement systems is just Japan owing itself.
After all, it is said, the huge debt overhang from the country's rotten banking system and the actuarial deceit of its postal- and insurer-based retirement systems is just a case of Japan owing itself.
Ironically, the government's failure to restore public confidence in banks may be good news for its own postal savings system, which, as the world's biggest financial institution, controls about a third of the savings market and is badly in need of reform.
The danger for Europe is that its postal system is left behind as e-commerce grows.
The main reason is that, fearful of the health of the banks, Japanese savers have increasingly been squirrelling money away in the (government-guaranteed) postal savings system instead.
If Europe's postal system is to flourish in the future, its operators cannot afford to hide behind a lethargic liberalisation.
He said police don't believe Lin's missing body parts are in the country's mail system, but they are working with postal officials to make sure.
For decades, he had been obsessed with breaking up or privatising Japan's postal system, which sounds a strange obsession but actually lies at the heart of the country's financial and political distortions.
Under the new system, returning officers and their staff will check about one in five postal ballots for signs of fraud.
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