I don't know why the place called as title, I went to Ginza, mecca of the most luxurious shopping streets in Tokyo, to get a feel for classiness. Ordinally, Japanese mailbox is painted red, but here the cutting edge of sophistication, even mailbox seems to act rich (aside from whether blue means gorgeousness or not).
Jesting apart, the entity which runs postal survice is now facing the first greatest cataclysm of the millenium. As US or several other country, postal services are run by governmental entity since it involves highly public aspects, but in these days it's getting to be pointed out that the inefficient operation especially in finances. "Finances??" you might say. Interesting point is, our postal service agency deals with its original life insurances and even provides us favorable rate saving account. Long ago, when private bankings were not reliable as those in these days, many people did deposit their fortune and bought postal-life-insurance. Problems arose mainly from this banking function of the service, i.e., their almost only way of fund management is investing public projects, most of which is now gasping for shringking number of public works, and that results in massive deficit. People's opinion move to privatization of the postal agency and allowance of free entry to the business. In near future, we might see more colorful mailboxes in streets.
(c.f. post on this photo is colored not because of the privatization things, probably its better fit to city's setting)
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Interesting Read!
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