February 28, 2025 Publication of the Annual Report on Correspondence Delivery (FY 2024 Edition)

　The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) has compiled the “Annual Report on Correspondence Delivery (FY2024 Edition)”, which has now been published.

　The Act on Correspondence Delivery by Private Business Operators (“Correspondence Delivery Act”) came into force in April 2003, and private business operators can now enter the correspondence delivery business (the “Correspondence Delivery Business”).
　MIC compiles an annual report on correspondence delivery every year to raise awareness of the Correspondence Delivery Business.

　In addition to the current situation of the Correspondence Delivery Business, this year's annual report aims to give readers an idea of how specific correspondence delivery businesses actually go about their work on a day-to-day basis, and includes the voices of business operators, such as initiatives for employee education, including subcontractors, to ensure the protection of the confidentiality of letters, and initiatives by special subsidiaries (*) that have entered the specific correspondence delivery business.
　*Subsidiary company pertaining to the special provisions of Article 44 of the Act to Facilitate the Employment of Persons with Disabilities (Act No. 123 of 1960)

•Annual Report on Correspondence Delivery (FY 2024 Edition)
　https://www.soumu.go.jp/yusei/r06nenpou.html

•Previous annual reports on the Correspondence Delivery Business are available here.
　https://www.soumu.go.jp/yusei/nenpou.html