/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

From what I read, no more shipments from Japan if they're over 453grams... unless you have business contact.
Mind you, this also affects SAL *AND* EMS.
How the hell are the figs and dolls going to get over here now?!

Linking to reddit...
http://www.reddit.com/r/japan/comments/e6atq/japan_post_halts_all_shipments_to_the_usa_that/

[Anonymous No.]

I guess I won't be buying anymore lube or tea.

[Anonymous No.]

areyoufuckingserious
I have a total of 20 pounds awaiting shipment at one proxy service

what the fuck japan

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451930
Well, if it's not including the box, I should actually be fine with the tea, considering most packs are either 50g or 100g.

[Anonymous No.]

IT'S LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO KILL EXPORTING

[Anonymous No.]

sigh, better fire off a ship request to my proxy service

[Anonymous No.]

>How the hell are the figs and dolls going to get over here now?!
>unless you have business contact.
/v/ forms a business that deals with proxy buyers to ship things from Japan and distribute them to waiting ronery NEETs

[Anonymous No.]

This is where we come into the picture.

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

Should've also stated in the first post that this becomes effective Wednesday November 17th.

[Anonymous No.]

So, this just affects the US and its territories then?

[Anonymous No.]

>USA only
It's all good.

[Anonymous No.]

Does this affect countries other than the US?
What about stuff that's already been shipped?

[Anonymous No.]

SONUVA...

How the fuck will this work?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451967
Nope and it's in effect Wednesday. If you're in US, just ship it to Canada.

[Anonymous No.]

>all shipments to the USA
You got me for a second. Feels good to life in a superior democracy.

[Anonymous No.]

This is the most retarded thing I've seen a country do yet and I live in the United States.

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

>>6451957
Which makes me wonder about that process on getting said business contract.

Also, just noticed I made a awful typo. It's not "contact", "business contract with Japan Post"... Which makes this worse.

[Anonymous No.]

You could probably use a parcel forwarding service if you live in the US. It doesn't even have to be international since they'll already have business contacts with Japan Post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451980
>Also, just noticed I made a awful typo.

I just noticed I wrote /v/ and not even you called me on it.
>/jp/

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451980
It's a monthly payment contract. If it was like things are with USPS it would be zero issue as you can make an account whenever the fuck you want. I really don't want to fall back on my UPS or Fedex shipping accounts as they cost many times more to use them internationally.

My "spend money on Japan" budget just went from hundreds of dollars a year to $0.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451972
Oh that's good then. Well, not so much for US /jp/sies.
I've got a SAL package that hasn't arrived despite being shipped a month ago, and thought this might be the cause.

Also, wont this really piss off a lot of companies? Figures are all well and good, and Amiami/Hobbysearch/etc. will be pissed, but doesn't this have much greater implications?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451980
See what your typo did. Now people just think "oh you need a contact!" and it has fucked up the whole meaning of the thread

[Anonymous No.]

20 pounds of crap here. i wonder what my proxy's reaction would be if i asked him to send it in twenty one-pound boxes (they're all a bunch of books so they could be split up)

[Anonymous No.]

Well maybe they'll make cheap 3D printers and then you can just download your figs.

[Anonymous No.]

Feminist groups expresss outrage at American outlet showing perverse Japanese games.

Japanese solution? Enact useless legislation constricting their own local industry.

Someone tries to mail a bomb into the US through Britain.

Japanese solution? Ban all heavy exports from Japan to the US.

Truly, I wonder what goes inside the heads of Japanese politicians.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6451995
>but doesn't this have much greater implications?

Doubt it. I can't think of anyone who buys massive amounts of Japanese things that isn't a business and I doubt American fig buyers count for much.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452007
The companies actually banned Americans from their sites.

Also Japan's solution when dealing with anything relating to America is to ban it. Do they even let you being beef in there again? It was banned ages ago because of mad cow. Not even just importing cows, but you couldn't bring any sort of been in. Not even beef jerky.

[Anonymous No.]

Just means I'm gonna be buying even more merchandise from HK suppliers... I don't like buying from HK suppliers.

[Anonymous No.]

Is this a request of the government of the USA? Are they really afraid of terrorists sending things from Japan? It seems pretty silly to me.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452007
you forgot 'china crazy' crashes his boat into a japanese coast guard ship.
send him back on a chartered plane.

and take video footage from above crash, never show it to citizens because it might affect chinese-japanese relations
video is leaked, people love the leaker for it, people hate the government for hiding it, people protested against china before they knew there was a video to begin with

if America's objective was to permanently make Japan into pussies, it worked.

[Anonymous No.]

I wonder how heavy this is.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452017
No, it's Japan being Japan on their own. If America was going to request it it would be to countries they think mail threats would come from. Japan is especially low on that list.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452030
I really don't understand Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

j-list just went out of business.

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

>>6452030
I really never thought I would have another "WTF JAPAN" moment until I read about this.

[Anonymous No.]

This isn't permanent right? Just till the scare cools down?

[None !Nipaa0mi0. No.]

>>6452022
Don't forget them canceling shows on the off chance they might displease or distress people. E.g. not broadcasting an episode of FMP where a child was kidnapped because a child kidnapping story was in the news, or pulling Higurashi off a bunch of channels after a girl murdered her father with an axe.

[Anonymous No.]

Recently one Japanese fashion brand announced a line based on military uniforms which some people automatically associated with Nazis (which probably isn't too far off because it's Japan). There were complaints via email to the brand. They responded by pulling the line from the English site. It is still on the Japanese site. I'm not sure whether or not you can order internationally from the Japanese site's store.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452046
>Just till the scare cools down?
Never forget.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452054
That was the true victory of the terrorists: they disrupted the fuck out of air travel and made everything take ages to get through. You used to be able to zip through the metal detectors and be on your way but now you have to allot 30 minutes, sometimes more depending on what time your flight is, for the checkpoint. And in all honesty as someone who knows people who work at the airport, the TSA (the checkers) DON'T CARE AT ALL.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452049
Kind of like how the US banned certain songs from playing on the radio following 9/11.

[Anonymous No.]

Question:

So sites like Ebay, Amazon, Amiami and the like... they're all fucked by this now?

[None !Nipaa0mi0. No.]

>>6452063
[citation needed]

And Japan the government doesn't have to bother banning these things; the broadcasting companies self-censor at the very slightest hint of controversy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452066
America fucking edited ET because of 9/11

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452066
The Japanese media wouldn't even mention the various protests against China with hundreds/thousands of Japanese people, and sometimes with a shitton of giant flags with them. They pretended they didn't exist.

>>6452064
Larger businesses like amiami/hlj/hobbysearch are probably all fine because they are big enough in shipment volume where they probably already have a business account with the Japanese post office. Small businesses that might get a handful of shipments a month or individuals just sending stuff out are fucked.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452017
No, it's Japan being fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.]

>shipments_to_the_usa_that
>usa

Hahahaha. Lets all laugh at the fat disgusting baka amerikkan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452073
Then it went on a war on terror which has so far only caused the world changes for the worse. If I were American I would be embarassed for my country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452083
Kids in America are growing up prejudiced against everyone that's not white and/or Christian. I'm sure there are some kids who are terrified of living a normal life because of the things their parents tell them. Looking in on this whole thing from my own bubble of reality and seeing people act like this, I do feel embarrassed of my own country.

[Anonymous No.]

After Wednesday, November 17th Japan Post will not accept any shipments to the US if the total package weight exceeds 453g. The only exception is if you are a business with a monthly payment contract with Japan Post.

This new measure affects the US as well as US territories/possessions such as Guam and Saipan.

Apparently this is some sort of terror prevention measure.

(I'm guessing this is related to the recent toner cartridge bombs but I really don't see how Japan is related to Yemen. Then again, I often don't understand government "logic".)

Please pass this info along to anyone you know who may need to get something heavy to the US before Christmas. It looks like tomorrow is their last chance to ship.

[Anonymous No.]

So what's stopping people from sending one pound bombs everywhere?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452098
..he's onto something

[Anonymous No.]

So how am i supposed to get my stuff i have pre-ordered at ami ami?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452083
We all are.

[Anonymous No.]

Well, for one thing I don't live in the USA so I'm relatively safe.
Secondly, what keeps them from shipping them as gifts like they always did? Stupid as it sounds, you can circumvert a lot of regulations.

[Anonymous No.]

Japanese citizens don't have a problem with this?

Aren't there quite a few Japanese people who have family in the USA?

I guess they're not significant enough to matter.

[Anonymous No.]

>最近のテロリストの脅威に 対する米国の航空保安強化に伴い

Blame the Muslims.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452131
Japanese don't consider Japanese who don't live in Japan to be Japanese. They'll just mock them for not living in superior moonland and say it can't be helped.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452127
Shipping things as gifts is a little hard if they don't accept anything going to the U.S. that's over one pound to begin with. You can call it a gift all you want but it isn't getting on a plane.

[Arcueid Brunestud !ARCIkc4cG6 No.]

>>6452148

Serves them right for going to shitty Gaijinland desu ne

JAPAN SUPERIOR.jpg.exe.bat.tiff

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452131
Japan has a lot of groupthink always-for-the-better bullshit. They expect any good Japanese citizen to sacrifice anything for the country.

[Anonymous No.]

>Be a Jap company
>Still take preorders from America
>Send them a notice saying it can't be shipped so they have to come get it.
>No refunds on preorders
Feels good man

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452158
Get out.

To everyone else. It was a request from the US government. Stop being children and move somewhere else if you are so upset.

[Anonymous No.]

>only in US

Probably the only time I ever felt grateful for living in the UK

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452158
And then you tell them to fuck off and ship UPS or call your credit card company/PayPal and issue a chargeback/complaint.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452177
You can't even order figs to the UK can you? You'd be killed for pedophilia because one of them looked 2 months underaged.

[Anonymous No.]

suspending themajority of postal traffic to the states is just borderline retarded, especially a few weeks before christmas (which is probably the reason why america pulled this shit in the first place? inb4 no post during holidays lol)

No seriously, i doubt they can maintain this over a longer period, because either the pissed citizen will kick/sue their ass or the companies who´re forced to pay a shitload of additional money in order to send their stuff.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452194
Who are these people who are ordering tons of non-wapanese stuff from Japan?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452191

I don't know about figs. I mostly order doujinshi and DVDs so i'm relatively safe

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452194
>the reason why america pulled this shit

but the US hasn't done anything, Japan did.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452202

People might be buying PCBs or cabinets or whatever. Who knows.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452194
APEC was just around now. Obama was just over there for talks with Russia and some other shit. I swear if he personally had anything to do with this I am voting against his ass if he's up for reelection in 2012 and I'm a Democrat that follows party lines.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452205
>this is not something that was initiated in Japan. it is a response to heightened security requirements on the u.s. side, which japan most likely does not see the point in implementing.

>Correct. HK has announced similar restrictions on items to the US and it looks like other countries are doing likewise.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452207
ya damn skippy!

[Anonymous No.]

Dammit people, you are not actually beating terrorists by tightening security and making things more difficult in general. You are playing right into their hands.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452098
seriously though, what's stopping people from sending one pound bombs? yeah, they're smaller, but they are still exploding and shit. or hell you can have one pound of biological bullshit. they freak the fuck out about flour already. fuck, just send as many packs of flour as you can from every country out there. it'll grind the whole fucking country to a halt because they'll check all of them.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452228
They're in their hands either way. Either America shuts itself off or they'll send more bombs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452239
actually this is the exact situation with 4chan and the captcha

[Anonymous of Germany !6YwIQ6O3es No.]

So basically this shit is only affecting 400g+ packets from japan to the states and vice versa AND it will most like revoked soon, because the usa are forced to make concessions in terms of their increasing security-mania?

[Anonymous No.]

>>because the usa are forced to make concessions in terms of their increasing security-mania
not going to happen.

[Anonymous No.]

Of course its the USA doing this

453grams = 1 US pound

Japan would never use such an idiotic number if it wasn't for the US government forcing them to do it.

[Anonymous of Germany !6YwIQ6O3es No.]

>>6452248
>america increasing their security completely disproportionate compared to the benefit (if there´s any)
>Japan and friends (=rest of the world) don´t get along with their hilarious self-staged scaremongering -> stop delivering stuff to usa
>american population is getting mad, very mad at their government who´s responsible for their lack of figs
>???
>government is forced to stop their secret "look-into-every-letter-shit", bows to glorious nippon who pick up their postal service afterwards

That or America wages another war against the rest of the world (since they´re hurt because noone wants to send them post anymore, including their 500 bucks fee to pass various security checks)

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452243

Except that the captcha destroyed spambots and we can still post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452271
if airport screenings and the patriot act didn't go away after 9 years in the u.s. then shipping restrictions aren't going anywhere for packages being sent to the u.s. either. they already covered the big companies with the fine print so they are just going to say fuck you to individuals. that's what i meant by not going to happen.

[Anonymous No.]

Japan is a moe little shut-in girl who isolates herself from the rest of the world whenever something slightly threatening happens.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452324
You're thinking of the USA. But it is more like a bumbling, giant manchild who's autismic terror and control issues fucks itself over all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452332
And who for whatever reason can blow up the entire neighborhood by itself.

AMERICA, FUCK YEAH.

[Anonymous No.]

America sends drones, terrists send letter bombs. It's called remote warfare.

[Anonymous No.]

Why does Japan post no have this on their main site for english users since a decent portion of said english users are to be affected by this, hmm?

[Anonymous No.]

So what is going to happen when I order books from Amazon.co.jp in the future? This is absolutely fucking retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452372
WWIII will be fought with letters and packages.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452477
I can't order shit from Amazon.co.jp since they always give me some stinky shit about $40 shipping even for a single small book

for anyone else, Jlist is still fine since they have a contract.

[Anonymous No.]

Good thing I got my mahjong set a few months ago.
Seriously, are we going to have to use like a Canadian proxy or something, as retarded as that sounds.

[Anonymous No.]

God damn, do I want to get out of this country soon.

I won't be able to order anything I want online anymore, this is ridiculous. What the fuck does Japan have to do with Yemeni mail bombs?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452493
America is worried that Japanese kamikaze mail bombs will be sent to pearl harbor post office.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452493
Where would you go?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452499
and said mailbombs have a U.S return address.

Ah, how history repeats itself~

[Anonymous No.]

Wait, wouldn't any major company, such as Amazon, have a business contract with the Japan Post and therefore be fine for shipping to the US? So wouldn't this only affect individuals who are in Japan and want to ship the US, not individuals in the US ordering shit online?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452502
Canada.
Already a citizen, so it would be like returning home for me. Not much of a change, but little steps before big leaps.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452507
Major places should be fine (amazon, jlist, amiami)
its individuals and probably proxies that will be affected.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452486
How awesome is Jlist anyway?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452529
jlist is pretty terrible.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452514
Ah thank god, I was about to cry myself to sleep for learning the language of such a shitty country (and being born in another shitty country), but now I can go on my way feeling better.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452536
As someone who knows people in Japan and ships things back and forth this makes me angry at learning the language/visiting the country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452488
>canadian proxy
guess you don't order loli

[Anonymous No.]

Canadia here, starting parcel forwarding service!
Too bad I don't have my own house, and having tens of parcels coming through my dorm will make me look super suspicious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452257
THIS. Does the US feel good man?

[Anonymous No.]

It looks to me like this only applies to stuff sent by air. So if you're willing to wait a few months, you could probably still have it shipped by boat-mail.

[Anonymous No.]

Now we have to deal with small bombs. Just great.

[Anonymous No.]

>>>/toy/1999329

[Anonymous No.]

Goddamnit US government, stop being retarded.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453401
So, the SHIPPER needs to have a business contact with Japan Post, and not the buyer?

What a big fuss about nothing.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453401
Thanks for the link, good to know.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453401
So, you can send bombs as long as you write down a name?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453455
I lol'd.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453455
のヮの
Don't tell anyone

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

Reposting the quoted text from the /toy/ thread.

>Hello,

>Thank you for your mail and attention.
>No worries, we do not have problem with that.

>As we have noticed this update from Japan Post web-site earlier and we have contacted with Japan Post and they said that is for the "unidentified parcel" such as without senders names and information or without recievers information.

>Thank you for your attention and emailing us!

>Best regards,
>Romi Namai

>AmiAmi

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453616
no senders names I can understand but ... no receiver information? what kind of package is that? "To USA, don't care where?"

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453662
To Santa

[None !Nipaa0mi0. No.]

>>6453616
Can't they just block parcels addressed to "the Great Satan"?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453616

This is false. It affects all packages over 1 pound that are not being sent by an entity that hasn't been engaged in a contract with the post office for atleast one month prior to sending packages now.

...so basically every single major commercial operation that was shipping things before can ship them still, but individual people can't really send anything by themselves and have to use a third party instead.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453706
[citation needed]

[ニューゼロ !!TEBCvIGp/sA No.]

Im glad that I am not in the USA :)

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453688
I'm pretty sure you'd be quite angry if your name was Gureito Seitan and you couldn't mail anymore due to some terrorists.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453706
Yeah, that sounds too good to be true. I mean, what kind of terrorists would deliberately make a parcel look suspicious by not giving return address? Only affect those without return addresses? What kind of stupid counter-measure would that be?

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2010/1112.html

http://eigoeb.com/blog/entry-air1816.html

Individuals can enter into a contract with the post office as well, but it will take several weeks to process an application for it and after that you still have to be on the contract for a month before you are considered safe enough to send packages to the US of A. What one wouldn't do to fight terror. Or more likely what one wouldn't do to help US retailers against evil foreign companies that dare undercut them even after shipping.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453735
This was in reply to this. I fail at replies.
>>6453806

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453769
I know with drugs and shit they usually put false names on addresses so I guess it would be people who aren't registered to live on the address stated. Don't know how often they check a package against a list though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453769
> What kind of stupid counter-measure would that be?
Yeah, how unlike all those other well thought out and intelligent counter measures, like making you eat airline food with useless knives which are blunter than the corresponding fork, whilst people are still allowed to buy/bring heavy glass bottles of drink on the plane.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453874
not in the u.s.
has to be 3 ounces or less if you want to bring it

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453878
Is that in these new bottle regulations that came out because of the whole liquids bomb scare? I thought that didn't apply to anything you bought on the plane or at the duty free shops before boarding (making it a complete nonsense rule) rather than to everything. Then again, I don't know how America did this one.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453616
Oh that's good

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453911
if you're bringing it from home it has to be 3 ounces or less. this only applies to things before the checkpoint as they only really care here. if you're already past the checkpoint you can buy from stores or whatever and bring it on the plane. i usually bring an empty water bottle with me and fill it up at a water fountain after the checkpoint.

[Anonymous No.]

This is why we need to go back to the metric system.

[Anonymous No.]

So can I still order stuff from Tenga or what

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453944
the easiest way to figure it out is to ask the company themselves. tenga probably has enough volume to where they have a contract though.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

I doubt this affects legit businesses in Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

I considered finally killing myself until I heard this won't affect me at all

[Anonymous No.]

Excuse me while I laugh at poor Americans.


If someone needs me I will be ordering over 453 grams stuff from Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454360
Good thing it won't affect anyone here anyway regardless, as it's not like any of us get any personal mail anyway, let alone personal mail from Japan.

[Anonymous No.]

So this is just to stop the import of sex toys, then?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6453944
i´m pretty sure there are also local companies selling tenga-ware in your own country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454365
A friend of mine in Japan ordered the Kodomo no Jikan keyboard for me. He's supposed to mail it to me along with School Days HQ later this month...FUCK maybe it weighs less than a pound :/

[Kirino is my autistic wife. !!a7wRiK9kTqv No.]

>>6454478
Interesting. I wouldn't mind that keyboard. It would also feel fitting when I accidentally get semen on it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454478
is there also a kuro-keyboard?

[Anonymous No.]

So does anyone know of any proxies with such a contract that won't open your packages?

[Anonymous No.]

>>6452083
The war on terror was just a cover, sir. Everyone who isn't retarded knows this. An opportunity was provided and we took it. It was a chance to dig our claws deeper in the middle east. Which is how a country stays strong; acquisition and control of resources. It just didn't work out as well for us this time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454492
'fraid not

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454493
Most proxies will probably switch to UPS or whatever now.

[Anonymous No.]

I noticed a lot of places, including proxies, started offering FedEx this year.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454606
Fuck yeah UPS.

The best way to deal with USPS faggotry
AND NOW
The best way to deal with 日本郵便 faggotry

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454625
FedEx International Priority also another solution, excellent competitive pricing for heavy items

[Anonymous No.]

J-List has said on their Twitter that they're not affected by this ban.

[Anonymous No.]

GUYS!
This is all a part of the NHK's plan! They want to throw us into absolute despair.

FUCKING NHK! To think I was planning on getting a job soon so I can buy more figures, BUT OF COURSE THE NHK HAS TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454675
how heavy are we talking? they quoted me 31699 yen for a 20 pounder through FedEx International Economy. In comparison 14000 for EMS for the 20 pounder.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454762
Show me that graphic, I know you are exaggerating

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454772

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454781
i changed it to a fedex 10kg box and it went down to 23415 yen but that's still a good deal more than the EMS price.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454798
And the EMS comparison chart then?
They are notorious for stating one thing and then hiking the shit out of it.

Just curious, what exactly are you ordering that is 20 lbs? Books?

[Anonymous No.]

>>Inside dimensions: 15.81" x 12.94" x 10.19"
nevermind. the stuff i bought won't even fix into the 10kg box.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454810
http://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/charge/list/ems_all_en.html

it's lots and lots of books

[Anonymous No.]

Doesn't FedEx have a cheaper economy service that takes a week or so? (as opposed to Priority)

JAA's shipping charts show FedEx as significantly cheaper than EMS for heavy items:

http://www.japan-auction-agency.com/shipping/ems.html
http://www.japan-auction-agency.com/shipping/fedex.html

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454832
Hmm, that is rather interesting, I'd still have to see it calculated through the order site and finalized to believe it

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454843
31699 was taken from fedex's site

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454843
There has some be some sort of weight classification system going on in this case but yea clearly that chart seems more in line with the prices I know about

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454832
Looking at that table always makes me want to throw up.
The 20kg price is half of what I pay for a return flight to Japan, which includes a 20kg baggage allowance+cabin baggage.

There is no way the price is justified. It's mostly based on monopolies.

[Anonymous No.]

When I FedEx'd the R1 Cardcaptor Sakura DVD set from the U.S. to the U.K. it cost like $90.

I've been wondering if FedEx has some kind of bulk contract deals with businesses where they can ship stuff way cheaper than what they charge individuals for single shipments. Otherwise I don't see how Amazon Japan can make a profit using FedEx Priority the way they do (pic related, that's 2-day shipping from Japan to the U.S.).

[Anonymous No.]

When I FedEx'd the R1 Cardcaptor Sakura DVD set from the U.S. to the U.K. it cost like $90.

I've been wondering if FedEx has some kind of bulk contract deals with businesses where they can ship stuff way cheaper than what they charge individuals for single shipments. Otherwise I don't see how Amazon Japan can make a profit using FedEx Priority the way they do (pic related, that's 2-day shipping from Japan to the U.S.).

[Anonymous No.]

DAMN YOU ISLAND NATION

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454881
>343 JPY

Wait, WHAT?
That's not what they advertise on their webpage.

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454881
>343 JPY

Wait, WHAT?
That's not what they advertise on their webpage.

[Anonymous No.]

Damn you Japan! Oh, wait a minute. Thank you Japan! You just saved me an eternity of pouring all my salary into figurines!

[Anonymous No.]

>>6454881
>334Y
What sort of devilry is this? I know shipping rates were cheaper back in August, but it was still like 1500Y for me.

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>>6454906
>>6454935
If you preorder multiple items that stretch across multiple months, and leave the shipping set on "ship all at once," Amazon calculates shipping like it was all on one box, but they go ahead and ship each item as it comes out (for their own convenience, apparently) and split the total shipping cost across them.

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>>6454951
Ah, that makes sense - or not.
Thanks. My stuff is usually not available for pre-order months ahead, so it doesn't really help me, but I'll keep it in mind.

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>>6454951
Ah, okay.
I don't normally pre-ordering things from Amazon.jp as I only go for artbooks and stuff that I can get for cheaper shippingwise and pricewise elsewhere.

[Anonymous No.]

Yeah I think Amazon is more of a video buyer's place, with the 26% discount on DVD/BD + the way TV series are sold one volume per month for 6+ months, lending themselves to that sort of pre-ordering. Then once they've got a video order going anyway, they toss on a few books or CDs or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

Crescent Trading (Noppin) is safe.

http://www.noppin.com/portal_my_news/detail/6D1C4FE3

Other proxies are as well I'm sure.

[Anonymous No.]

What's the best place to buy Japanese books price wise? Amazon has great selection and good book prices, but the shipping is stupidly expensive. Everywhere else I look has crappy selection, overpriced books, but more reasonable shipping. Anyone know of a site that is affordable on both fronts?

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>>6455044
Kinokuniya seems decent enough for things like manga volumes.

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>>6455044
CDJapan and bk1 ship from Japan with SAL shipping as an option

[Anonymous No.]

Depending on where you live you might have one of Kinokuniya's actual stores nearby so check there first.

It's nice being able to see stuff in person.

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>>6455088
I live in NYC, and it's kind of scary going there with the teenage girls. At least everything there is in plastic.

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>>6455114
A lot of the books should have a store sample you can browse through.

I don't think teenage girls should make you afraid. However afraid you are of them, they're probably more afraid of you.

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I'M SO FUCKING GLAD I CHOSE FEDEX TO SEND MY SHIT

I have $500 of stuff leaving Japan on wednesday, and I made this order a few months ago. Don't go and be a bitch now too, FedEx.

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>>6455425
FEDEX CARES NOT FOR PITIFUL NATION STATES.

FEDEX IS ABOVE SUCH PETTY SQUABBLING.

FEDEX IS ALL.

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>>6455044
nippon-export has pretty decent prices. I can buy 4 manga volumes for around 40 bucks compared to it being almost 100 dollars on amazon jp. The only downside is that searching for what you want is always a gamble. Their selection is not that big, but they also have some obscure things too so it evens out. They ship fast too.

[Anonymous No.]

1903 - The Wright Brothers invent the first heavier-than-air powered airplane, leading to a revolution in transportation and shipping.

2010 - Government anti-terrorism measures destroy the miracle of human flight.

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>>6455425

Fedex is pretty goddamn amazing sometimes.

I once had a Fedex get here in 2 days. I didn't check the 2nd day option, I didn't do any of the special rush things, but it got here faster than most of my domestic mail. I was fucking thrilled.

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20 pounds of crap guy here again. My proxy has informed me that I have a total of 13.2 kg (29.1 pounds) and is therefore a $225 for EMS or $105 for surface mail. I guess I'm now 30 pounds of crap guy instead. I'm honestly leaning towards surface mail because I'm a cheap ass even though it'll take at least a month to arrive.

[Kaguya is a !BEaRD8DGAI No.]

>>6456234
For saving $120, I'll take surface mail.
They'll arrive, won't they? So, why not? That's enough money for an Azone.

Ah, fuck, nevermind. Dollar is still at 83yen

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>>6456544
Don't remind me. The exchange rate is already a bitch, we don't need this postalfaggotry on top of it.

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>>6456555
>The exchange rate is already a bitch

Hey, it's your president complaining that the others try to keep the values of their currencies low, and with the recent Fed acquirement of US bonds using freshly printed 700 billion USD, he sure is trying to do the same. I see the dollar drop towards 70 JPY in the long run. Not that I was terribly happy about EURJPY atm.

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>>6457196
To be honest, finance bores the crap out of me. I don't care who's at fault, I just want this shit to be over with.

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>>6457611
Shit will never be over. You got used to a high point.

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>>6457620
Well fuck currencies anyway. We should do like the EU and have one international currency. If it hurts a country's economy, it's because they're a faggot.

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>>6457663
>We should do like the EU and have one international currency

[Anonymous No.]

Heard about this last week. My wife's family is Japanese and sends us awesome food and snacks all the time. So much for that.

THANKS, AMERICA.

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>>6457663
>>6457710
I hope you know that the Central Banks in Europe are having a fuck awful time dealing with that

[Anonymous No.]

Not living in America never felt so good.

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>>6457713
That's why I was facepalming, apart from the fact that 'we should just scrap all our currencies and make one currency' with a positive effect expected is about as realistic an argument as 'the government should just print more money and give it to poor people'.

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>>6457720
Silly government

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>>6457716
I dunno, every time I read another article about another example of USA steadily progressing towards being a totalitarian regime I feel pretty good already.
Something minor like that doesn't exactly make it much worse.