Japan loses track of all registered mail

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"Two days after the Japanese government declared the country to be a millennium bug-free zone and disbanded its Y2K task force, the Posts and Telecommunications Ministry on Friday admitted its mail service had lost track of registered post since January 1 because of computer problems."

Japan Loses Track of Mail

Thanks to Michael Hyatt's forum

-- Sally Strackbein (Reston, VA) (sally@y2kkitchen.com), January 09, 2000

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Re: "Japan loses track of all registered mail"....

UPDATE:

Asia Briefs

Y2K bug hits tracking of registered mail - TOKYO, Jan. 7 2000... The Posts and Telecommunications Ministry said Friday its mail service is unable to keep track of some registered mail because software to deal with the Year 2000 computer problem was not installed at some post offices. The ministry said the tracking of registered mail will resume Saturday and that the problem has not affected delivery.

Concise story from Kyodo News Web - Kyodo World Service

http://home.kyodo.co.jp/cgi-bin/kws.concisestory? id=20000107816

-- Lee Maloney (leemaloney@hotmail.com), February 02, 2000.


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