Japan Post closer to scrapping Saturday mail deliveries

Saturday deliveries of ordinary mail from Japan Post may soon be a thing of past. During a Diet session set to begin on Oct. 26, the government plans to submit a bill scrapping such deliveries, sources have said. If the bill is enacted during the session, Saturday deliveries are expected to be abolished as early as autumn next year, the sources said. The government has been refraining from submitting the bill to revise the postal law in order to prioritize responses to sales irregularities involving postal life insurance products. The postal law currently requires Japan Post Co. to deliver ordinary mail six days a week or more.