Japan Post said that there were inappropriate instructions regarding the distribution of calendars due to the suspicion that multiple postmasters nationwide used calendars purchased at company expense for political activities. I disposed of more than 90 people.
It turns out that Japan Post is suspected of distributing calendars purchased by multiple postmasters nationwide for customers at an expense to the supporters of parliamentarians supported by the voluntary organization "National Postmasters Association". , I was conducting an in-house investigation.
On the 26th, the results were announced, and from 2018 to 2020, the National Post Office Directors' Association instructed the district general manager who bundles the regional post offices to distribute the calendar to the supporters of the Diet members. about it.
Approximately 40% of these district directors distributed calendars to postmasters in the district without instructing them to separate political activities from company operations.
Japan Post has dismissed 90 district directors as admonitions and cautions, saying it was a misleading and inappropriate act as if the company was engaged in political activities.
In addition, six branch presidents were punished for admonition and reduction of remuneration because of insufficient guidance.
At the press conference, Managing Director Tatebayashi said, "It is regrettable that the activity was carried out in the form of taking advantage of the distribution of the calendar as a company business."
In response to this issue, Japan Post has decided to cancel the door-to-door distribution of calendars for next year by visiting.