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Interesting. I'm surprised that this is successful in Japan given the proliferation of Takkyubins.
by inferiorhuman 9y ago
Interesting. I'm surprised that this is successful in Japan given the proliferation of Takkyubins.
- glandium 9y agoMost things I buy on Amazon come through Yamato, and a few through Sagawa or the Post office, so in fact, Amazon uses Takkyuubins. (I live in Japan) Tangentially, takkyuubin is actually a trademark by Yamato, and the Ghibli movie, Majou no takkyuubin was actually sponsored by Yamato, and is one of the reasons there is a black cat in the movie (their emblem). The generic term is takuhaibin (宅配便).
- ekianjo 9y agoTheir service is also called Kuroneko, black cat, by most people.
- glandium 9y agoTheir web site is even kuronekoyamato.co.jp.
- inferiorhuman 9y ago> Tangentially, takkyuubin is actually a trademark by Yamato, and the Ghibli movie, Majou no takkyuubin was actually sponsored by Yamato, and is one of the reasons there is a black cat in the movie (their emblem). The generic term is takuhaibin (宅配便). Ahhhh. I've seen Ta-q-bin which obviously seems trademarked, but not realized takkyuubin vs takuhaibin.
- m_mueller 9y agoAmazon definitely profits from the existing delivery network here - no need for them to build this themselves, and it would be pretty hard to compete with anyways. Delivery in Japan boggles my mind to be honest, I'd love to get an account of their cost structures - the logistics behind making this scale at the existing price point must be amazing and should probably be studied extensively in the west.