土曜配達、来秋にも廃止　郵便法改正案を閣議決定―政府

　政府は３０日午前、普通郵便物の土曜日配達と翌日配達を廃止するための郵便法改正案を閣議決定した。同日中に国会に提出される見通し。郵便物の減少に対応するとともに、郵便局員の働き方改革につなげる狙い。臨時国会で法案が成立すれば、土曜・翌日配達は来年秋にも廃止される。
　同改正案は、郵便局を舞台としたかんぽ生命保険の不正販売問題で被害を受けた顧客の救済などを優先させるため、国会提出が見送られていた。
　現行法は、普通郵便物の配達頻度を「週６日以上」と定めている。法改正で「週５日以上」に緩和されるのを受け、日本郵便は日曜に加え土曜配達を取りやめる。普通郵便物の翌日配達も併せて廃止する。（2020/10/30-10:46）

The Japanese government at a cabinet meeting Friday adopted a postal law amendment to pave the way for ending Saturday and next-day deliveries of general mail.
   The move reflects dwindling volumes of mail and is also aimed at promoting work style reforms for post office workers.
   Saturday and next-day mail deliveries will be abolished as early as autumn next year if the amendment is passed during the ongoing extraordinary session of the Diet, the country's parliament.
   The government has delayed the submission of the bill to the Diet, seeing the need for the Japan Post Holdings Co. group to prioritize rescue of affected customers and other work related to the issue of irregularities in sales at post offices of insurance products of Japan Post Insurance Co. .
   The postal law currently requires general mail delivery operations to be conducted for at least six days a week. After the passage of the bill calling for reducing the weekly delivery frequency to at least five days, Japan Post Co., the postal service group's mail and parcel delivery arm, will end mail deliveries on Saturdays, on top of Sundays, when no general mail deliveries take place already.