Japan Post Holdings
is the service mark of Japan Post and its successor, Japan Post Holdings, the postal operator in Japan. It is also used as a Japanese postal code mark since the introduction of the latter in 1968. Historically, it was used by the , which operated the postal service. The mark is a stylized katakana syllable "te" (テ), from the word . The mark was introduced on February 8th, 1887 (Meiji 20.2.8).