The House of Representatives Committee on Public Management, Home Affairs, Posts and Telecommunications opened debate Thursday over a set of four postal services deregulation bills.
At the opening of the meeting, the government gave a presentation to explain the purpose of the new legislation.
The package includes a bill that would allow private firms to begin offering mail services under certain conditions and one to establish a new public corporation in 2003 to take over the three government-run postal services of mail, postal savings and "kampo" life insurance.