[2021-12-22]Airmail sevice for Canada is suspended temporarily.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2021/1221_01_en.html
[2021-11-03]Airmail sevice for the US and Australia is suspended temporarily.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2021/1101_01_en.html
[2021-03-29]Shipping rate was revised for Japan Post ePacket: 6 to 8USD
[2020-11-20]Shipping to Malaysia was resumed now.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/1120_01_en.html
[2020-10-08]US: Normal shipment for USA is sitll not available but Japan Post starts acceptance of Small Packets.
This is the first good indication for six months since April.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/1008_01_en.html
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/overview_usa_en.html
[2020-09-10]US:All packets posted before suspension(2020-04-24) were delivered until end of July, they took 2-3 months, except for one returned mail.
Acceptance of air mail desined to the US are still suspended at this time.
[2020-06-20]US:After two-month stuck all of 28 packets were dispatched from Japan finally until now and
9 out of them were already delivered in last and this week.
Many are trackable in USPS tracking page now. You can trace your packet here.
https://tools.usps.com/go/TrackConfirmAction_input
[2020-06-09]US:Last week, part of packets to US posted between the end of March and early April seem to had flight finally after two months wait in Japan Post facility. Some whose destination is in west coast became traceable with USPS tracking page and one of them was delivered already. There are still many packets(10+) kept stuck in Japan, though.
CANADA:On 2020-06-04 all packets were dispatched to the country after a month wait.
Japan Post and Canada Post can't offer tracking record update for them in Canada under the current situation. From now we can't know anything until they are delivered. Let me know when you get packet.
[2020-04-23]Japan Post annonuced that acceptance of packet to the United States is suspended from April 24.
https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/0423_03_en.html
We have previously announced that considerable delivery delays can be expected for mail items destined to the United States due to the significant reduction and suspension of flights caused by the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Although we have made every effort to secure speedy dispatch to the United States in cooperation with airline companies and the U.S. Postal Service, at present, we are unable to make any prospect for dispatching mail items to the United States because of the drastic decline in transportation performance due to the further significant reduction and suspension of flights.
Therefore, acceptance of various mail items destined to the United States will be temporarily suspended from April 24.
In addition, items which have already been accepted will be dispatched by remaining flights in order. Considering our present transportation performance, for example, it is estimated that up to four months or so will be needed for dispatching EMS. If you want items to be returned, please contact the post office where you mailed them.
I can't ship my products to US for a while now.[2020-04-09]Japan Post just announced this.https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/0409_03_en.html
April 9, 2020
As we have announced previously, the novel coronavirus pandemic has caused a global reduction of flights. Accordingly, acceptance of international mail items to some countries/territories is temporarily suspended and considerable delivery delays are expected for outbound mail items to other countries/territories.
Although mail items to the United States are currently being accepted, it is expected to take more than two weeks to load the items that have already been accepted on airplanes to that country due to the significant reduction and suspension of flights.
Therefore, we are trying our best to dispatch promptly as many postal items as possible to the United States, cooperating with airline companies and the postal operator in that country.
We sincerely apologize that delivery will take more time than usual. It would be appreciated if you would kindly understand this situation in advance.
They said nothing but situation for other countries seems to be same or worse, except for Korea and UK. The two countries still works well as usual as of now.
[2020-04-07]Mails posted last week have already suffered from unusual delay in Japan before catching limited flight to its destination including US and Europe. And situation geting worse gradually here in Japan and international mail will need longer delivery time than usual inevitably.
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Yamato (https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/en/)(trackable and insured)
This can be shippped out in a few bussiness days.
Prices were revised on 2023-04-03.
Use EMS instead now. 2023-04-28.
- US:
27 32USD, 5-6 days 6 days(2022-12), 6 days(2022-05), 5 days(2022-05), 6 days(2022-03), 7 days(2022-03), 11 days(2021-10-18), 12 days(2021-10-06), 10 days(2021-10-06), 7 days(2021-09-27), 4 days(2021-09-10), 4 days(2021-09-10)
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Canada: 27USD 5-7 days(estimated) - Use FedEx or
Airmail instead.
- Germany:
32 35USD, 8 days(2022-11), 7 days(2022-08), 8 days(2022-03-25), 7 days(2022-03-18), 6 days(estimated)
- France:
32 35USD, 12 days(2022-12), 10 days(2022-03-29), 6 days(estimated)
- UK:
32 35USD, 6 days(2022-12), 6-7 days(2022-09,10)
- Russia
63 65USD, 7 days(estimated)
- Puerto Rico: 27USD, 6 days(esimated)
- Other countries: Ask me with your country and postal code.
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For these countries 'ePacket' shipping is available as-of 2023-04.
- Australia: 27USD, 7 days(2022-07), 9 days(2022-05), 7 days(2022-05), 12 days(2022-04), 6 days(2022-02), 7 days(2022-01-31), 14 days(2021-11-29), 8 days(2021-09-10), 10-12 days(2021-04-07)
- Finland: 32USD, 14 days(2022-04-01), 6 days(estimated)
- Belgium: 32USD, 6 days(estimated) - You can use ePacket now
- Italy: 32USD, 9 days(2022-06)
- Brazil: around 63USD & 10 days(estimated)
- Costa Rica 32USD, 7-10 days(estimated) 16 days(2021-10-12)
- Singapore: 20USD, 7-9 days
- Korea: 20USD, 3-5 days
- Vietnam: 20USD 4-6 days
No trouble and no big delay so far. 2021-11-11, 2022-08
Yamato forward packet to UPS outside of Japan, so it is virtually kind of 'UPS Worldwide Expedited' service(especially in the US). 2021-09-03
[Tracking]
You can trace your package here.
http://track.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/english/tracking
After your package leaves Japan you can find UPS tracking number as 'DeliveryTrackingNumber' in 'Detail' page of Yamato tracking site, and you can trace closely in your country.
https://www.ups.com/track?loc=en_US
2. FedEx(trackable and insured)Very costly. This can be shippped out in a few bussiness days.
Charge may vary.More
- US: 70USD, 2 days(2021-11-17), 2 days(2021-09-28)
- Canada: 66USD, 4 days(2022-06), 2 days(2021-11-17), 3 days(estimated)
- Australia: 45USD, 7 days(2021-02-23)
- Finland 66USD, 6 days(estimated)
- Brazil: around 70USD & 10 days(estimated)
- Puerto Rico: 60USD, 3 days(2021-09-09), 5 days(esimated)
- Russia: 100USD, 7 days(esimated 2022-02-14)
- Other countries: Ask me with your country and postal code.
6. Surface parcel(trackable and insured)Not available.
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Shipping can take up to 7 days.
- US: 25USD, 2 months(estimated) Use Yamato
- Canada: 25USD, 2 months(estimated)
- Australia 25USD, 2 months(estimated) Use Yamato
- Russia: 25USD, 3 months(estimated)
- Brazil: 25USD, 3 months(estimated)
- Others: ask
4. Airmail(no tracking and no insurance)Not available. Use ePacket instead if it is available for your country.
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Shipping can take up to 7 days.
Update: Airmail sevice for the US and Australia is suspended temporarily (https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2021/1101_01_en.html). 2021-11-03
Update 2: Airmail service for Canada is suspended temporarily (https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2021/1221_01_en.html). 2021-12-21
Note that this has no insurance and no tracking, I can't offer a refund or anything helpful in trouble. You have to take all risks of delivery and will lose your money if you have trouble. Don't open a dispute on PayPal to compensate your loss, it just imposes on me instead. I don't recommend but you can use this shipping method only if you understand and take all risks.
- US: 9USD, 7 days(2021-11-05), 7 days(2021-10-22), 5 days(2021-10-08), 14 days(2021-10-22), 8 days(2021-09-25), 13 days(2021-09-14), 7 days(2021-09-03), 10 days(2021-08-24), 7 days(2021-08-20), 9 days(2021-08-05), 7 days(2021-08-02), 2 weeks?(2021-06-14)
- Canada: 6USD, 27 days(2022-01-13), 21 days(2021-12-03), 20 days(2021-11-24), 28 days(2021-11-19), 32 days(2021-11-10), 28 days(2021-10-15), 12 days(2021-10-06), 14 days(2021-09-10), 12 days(2021-09-08), 12 days(2021-08-09), 17 days(2021-07-13), 8 days(2021-07-03)
- Australia: 6USD, 50 days(2022-07), 24 days(2021-09-27), less 20 days(2021-09-08), 2 weeks?(2021-06-14)
- Others: ask
- No lost or damaged mail so far(2021-08-11)
- Not available for other countries, use ePacket.