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I hadnt seen this until now, but I can confirm that I placed an order from a Japanese vendor on eBay that has been stuck in Japan since 3/27. If anyone gets news of this policy being changed please let us know.

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I am so lucky that my new Nakaya was shipped just before things started to go into the tank!

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The notebook that shipped March 27 will probably arrive in Octember

Add lightness and simplicate.

 

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I have no idea where my items are, but I am fortunate they aren't pens.

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To add to this discussion, in my recent pen purchase from Japan from one ebay seller, I had to pay a high price for DHL shipping because it's the only option they offer now to ship to the US. My item was shipped on May 9 and now just arrived in the US.

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Ouch that hurts! Nakaya offered me the DHL option too, but I rather wait a few more weeks for Japan Post to be functional again.

Didn't feel like spending that much additional money for shipping!

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I agree. I don't think I'll order anything else from Japan until Japan Post is sending to the US again. In my case, the seller gave me a discount on the shipping because when I originally placed the order the shipping was the regular price. Then the seller found out they couldn't ship Japan Post here, and that DHL was the only option. So they said they would pay half the shipping cost. But it was still a lot! I guess I wouldn't have ordered in the first place if I had known that shipping would be so high, but I figured it was OK for this one pen.

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It affects Australia too; I'd bought a non-pen item from a Japanese seller and he had to cancel the order.

We didn't discuss DHL, and the item wasn't worth it anyway.

Glenn.

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I have Pkgs from China, Singapore and Australia all just sitting in the country of origin...these are NOT Fedex or DHL pkgs....EMS, etc...

 

They have been in the postal system in the country of origin, and I believe all are at the airports, but none have even moved for several weeks (some back to March....none have gotten on plane.

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PSA: DHL won't ship liquids, which means that inks from Japan are currently a no-go. I had the misfortune of ordering two inks through WRE just before international shipping stopped. They informed me that they can't ship them through DHL, which means they're stuck in Japan until EMS and Japan Post lift their restrictions.

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I have Pkgs from China, Singapore and Australia all just sitting in the country of origin...these are NOT Fedex or DHL pkgs....EMS, etc...

 

They have been in the postal system in the country of origin, and I believe all are at the airports, but none have even moved for several weeks (some back to March....none have gotten on plane.

Hi Bill,

 

Any idea about the other way? I have been receiving packages from China and Japan, no problem. But my USPS Priority International has been sitting in Chicago for 10 days now = (. Seems to me U.S might be even more problematic than Japan

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> ....none have gotten on plane.

Easy - either no or very few planes.

 

My cycling roads are near an airport here in Japan. Before, one after another plane passed overhead. Now, only occasionly, I see a plane.

 

This is why Japanpost stopped the acceptance of outbound international airmail. No transport capacity!

 

Tourists are not allowed into Japan until end of June. This means the situation (very much reduced capacity in normal flights) will last for another month - at least.

 

 

USPS apparently stopped shipping to Japan. Guess to other countries too.

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I shipped a Pen to Germany last week USPS International pkg....it is in Germany as we speak.

 

MKE hit the nail on the head though....significantly reduced Cargo space due to less planes traveling back and forth...and some countries are not allowing flights in ...

 

Fedex and DHL seem to be shipping to most countries, BUT I have heard they have both raised their rates significantly...

 

International shipping is currently a mess, with a tremendous amount of uncertainty.

 

If the pkg has already left and is in the shipping process I guess all you can do is be patient....

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