If sent within a time limit, the Japanese post office will deliver the cards on the morning of New Year's Day.
They started submitting work to periodicals such as Manga Shōnen and opened a joint savings account through Japan Post to which they both contributed funds and which they used to purchase art supplies.
The bill was subsequently defeated in the upper house (which cannot be dissolved) because of scores of defections from the ruling coalition.
So called "assassin candidates", with a pro-postal privatization agenda, were set against the "postal rebels", critics of postal reform, who were cast out of the LDP but still had local ties in their voting districts.
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In addition to founding and contributing to Japanese philatelic journals, Baron Mitsui was an official advisor to the Japanese Communications Ministry and Postal Service Ministry, and also Honorary Counselor of the International Society for Japanese Philately.