Postal services in Japan - statistics & facts
Japan established its modern postal system in 1871, during a period when the country fundamentally reformed its political, legal, and societal structures. Around 150 years later, the government has again transformed postal services, though privatization and liberalization policies at the beginning of the millennium. Consequently, the state has handed over principal services to private providers sustaining some of today's best-performing postal services in the world - despite a slowly but steadily shrinking number of post offices and post boxes.
