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A Short Note On Japan 's Express Post Service

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Takuhaibin (Japan’s express post service)

Takuhaibin or express post service is a postal service offered in Japan. In this essay, I will be discussing based on research I have done, characteristics of the service that are offered that are not offered by similar services in New Zealand as well as major Takuhaibin companies and future development of the service. I will be supplying graphs and data to support these claims. Finally concluding with my thoughts and opinions on the Takuhaibin system as well as how I think some of the ideas that are being used by the Ta-Q-Ben system can further add to the courier system of New Zealand. I will then talk about the future expansion and plans for the future of the Takuhaibin system.

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Although Pace courier offered by Express couriers limited (2016) offer a service that allows someone to post a package in the morning and get it delivered by the same day’s evening excluding Sunday as there is no postal service offered on Sunday in New Zealand. However, courier post in New Zealand does not offer the various times (including Sunday) and items that can be delivered which Takuhaibin offers its customers. Takuhaibin is although expanding into countries such as Taiwan and France as well as parcels being able to be sent to most overseas countries from Japan.

In Japan, there are three major companies that supply the Takuhaibin system and one that focuses on express post for business. These companies are Yamato transport with 46.3% of the market share, followed by Sagawa express with 33.88% and Yu-pack with 11.9% (graph 1. Yamato transport LTD. 2015)
From the graph provided not only can you see that Yamato is the largest company but there is also a steady increase of overall express packages getting sent rising by 500 million packages from 2005 till 2015. This graph also shows the growth of Yu-pack as well as the decline into nonexistence of JP-express which use to be the third largest competitor among companies offering Takuhaibin. This trend shows just how competitive the environment of Takuhaibin is in the Japanese market. This is due to the amount of money that is made each year

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