Shipping woes

MuddyPoppins · 2020-05-03T13:48:21+00:00

Well, If anyone remember how excited I was to have won one of those new Tokyo Metro Sakura Tram 9000 at auction nearly 3 weeks ago, I am now equally disappoi...

rekp

I am in the UK and my shipments from Japan take on average 2 -3 days once shipped . Large orders of 40+ engines are broken down into smaller shipments but still arrive in that time frame and also they refund customs charges where they have charged too much . 6 parcels shipped yesterday and showing tuesday for delivery ( would be monday but it is a bank holiday here tomorrow )

Super

With Japamart there aren't any choices for private couriers. I don't know if there were other choices besides Japan Post before the Virus. At least I never delved deeper than EMS which was at the top of their list. The only options they offer right now is

Surface Parcel
Surface Small Packet
Surface Printed Matter

All I believe are by boat.

@Rekp
The UK is a lucky one as its not on the list of curtailed deliveries from Japan. Here is what they say at Japamart for me.

Apr-01-2020 Shipment restrictions due to the coronavirus Japan Post put some restrictions on international shipment due to the spread of corona virus.

Currently, we cannot ship to the following countries.

China, New Zealand, Chile, India, Argentina, Indonesia, Kuwait, Spain.

Surface Parcel is the only available shipping method for the following countries.

Ireland, Israel, Italy, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Australia, Austria, Greece, Norway, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United States, Hungry, Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Malaysia, Malta, South Africa, Romania, Russia.

SAL Parcel is not available in any country.

It is still unclear exactly when the restriction will be lifted.
Please keep it in mind when you use our services.

rekp

I only use suppliers that can ship DHL . All of the other forms cause issues at my end as Customs and handling charges work out uneconomical . If they dont do business my way then they dont get my business . Simple as that . I work UK suppliers the same , if they use carriers I do not like they go to the back of the line and only get used as a last resort .

Super

Don't get me wrong. I have no issues with shipping Japan Post EMS to the United States Post Office, never had. Things have only changed during the Virus and I am sure things will get back to normal once the flights resume. In the mean time I think Jauce is offering no storage Fees for purchases through September during this pandemic but I don't use them so maybe another Member can confirm. I think Japamart has the same offer but I have to contact them to make sure. Otherwise there is a daily Storage Fee charged over 30 days. Up until now, I have never come close to that as my greedy little hands wanted my stuff as soon as possible. 😃

violater

Muddy Poppins wrote
@Vio I think you may have misread theses...
No one has re-shipped or returned it anywhere since it was received in Osaka 4/19, and it still remains at Japan Post.

I see now. Once upon time, a parcel on the Asia side of priority had been retracted, had 2 parcels retracted so far and needed to be sent via FEDEX.

Zenmarket is offering up to 120 days of free storage so there is always room for retracted parcels.

Trainboy90 Productions

Recently I had my first Amazon Japan shipped through DHL. Was sent back to Cincinnati once but got the package a day later. I'm going to buy off Amazon JP again.

MuddyPoppins

Ok...well I’m glad that we’ve made some progress here...they said 2 weeks. (Fingers crossed)
Still irritating that it took 9 email, over a course of 5 weeks to convince them, but they’re now off of their hands, and working to complete our transaction.

Super

Hurray Muddy!!!

Mister No

I really like Fisher Price's new Annie and Clarabel with those embossed noses, so I was thinking of getting them, and looked at Amazon.
Does anybody knows what on earth happened to Amazon's shipping prices?
I was ordering from them a lot in the past, but now with this prices? I don't think so...
Just look at this:

OK, I could order it from Amazon UK, but the prices of Amazon.com's new "AmazonGlobal Shipping" really knocked me off.
Last time I checked, I didn't live on Mars. $58.48 shipping for a $15 train? And $91.84 Total?? Come on...

Tharazero1

I think thats got to do with COVID. I know that with packages I've ordered from Japan, the normal cheapish shipping methods aren't available because Japan Post has not restarted shipping to Australia, so I either have to choose the really expensive but fast DHL service, or the painfully slow Surface Mail Option (by ship) which takes up to 2 months, so maybe in your situation, the really fast, but expensive option is what you're paying for. I have a package coming, and I chose the slow option, and the tracking information hasn't been updated since the 31st of August were it has been "dispatched from outward office of exchange", so my guess its on a ship currently making its way to me

rekp

or choose a uk based seller who charges the actual postage cost . £10 tracked and signed to japan .

Mister No

Tharazero1, I was ordering a lot of stuff from Amazon.com before Covid (books, some plarail stuff etc.), and shipping was always almost simbolic, sometimes even free. Now is two or three times the price (on everything)? I'm sure it has something to do with Covid: they are earning big bucks on it.

rekp wrote
or choose a uk based seller who charges the actual postage cost . £10 tracked and signed to japan .

As I said, I might do just that. The same item on UK Amazon is £15.96 + £10.24 delivery.

Super

I too am feeling the pain. I am waiting for one of those months long, slow boat from China Japan for a couple of weeks now. I was pretty much forced to as the only shipping available from Japamart Agent is Japan Post Surface Mail. The last package I got from them was through DHL because I asked them for it and that package was under one pound for $48.00usd which in these times I thought to be fine and it arrived in less than 5 days.

The current package which is about one pound jumped t0 almost $150.00usd's for DHL and they said that was cheaper than FedEx. So for the first time I have used the slow shipping by boat method and it was only $26.00usd. This drives me nuts as I am an instant gratification type of guy and want my items in hand as fast as possible. So I keep waiting.

Any of you Jauce users had anything shipped recently and what methods do they offer and what were the costs?

Hard to believe that a fast global shipping method from the UK is only 10.24bps. When I look at the items on Ebay UK the shipping to the USA is higher than that even before Covid.

MuddyPoppins

Plandemic/ Scamdemic...never let a good crisis go to waste.

Mister No

Super wrote
Hard to believe that a fast global shipping method from the UK is only 10.24bps.

That's the amount:

Ok, UK is closer to me than US, but anyway... $58.48 shipping for a $15 train at amazon.com is just nuts.
Moreover, amazon.com pre-covid shipping costs (when the item was sold and shipped by amazon.com) were very reasonable. And now this.

@ Muddy: Good point. Sir Winston Churchill predicted this! :rolleyes:

Super

Isn't that shipping price for residents of the UK?

Mister No

No, look, it's delivery to "Zagreb, 10000". Same price appears in my shopping cart.

Super

Wow, then that is a terrific price. Is that a Prime price.

Didn't know what Zagreb, 10000 was and I couldn't find the Amazon Global shipping words. Can't beat that. I don't want one of these but I think I will just see what the shipping would be for me as a curious test.

EDIT:
Holy smokes...if I had bought that from Amazon UK its only 13.96 Amazon Global Priority Wow....

AOF04

Shipping is a joke at the moment.
For us that live in New Zealand we got hit the first time last year, which we have discussed on a different thread, when New Zealand decided to collect GST from all overseas sellers. Amazon decided rather than roll out the GST to all there sites, they would only do it to the US version. This meant we could no longer purchase from Amazon Japan or Amazon UK. I do know I can use Buyee to still purchase from Amazon Japan, but since the change, the Amazon Japan website is horrible to use and they always seem to have no stock of anything.
Then Covid hits and all shipping to New Zealand stopped.
It has slowly restarted, but slowly being the word.
Now when I order my shipment from Jauce it takes a week to get organised and packaged up. Japan opened EMS to New Zealand, but instead of it being delivered within a week like it used to be, it actually takes 4-5 weeks. My guess is it doesn't go by plane, goes by slow ship now, yet they still charge the same price. They say they offer DHL, but only if EMS isn't working to your country.

Edit: I have a parcel I organised with Buyee that has now been sitting in Tokyo for 8 days. Hasn't even departed yet.

Tharazero1

Hmmm that's weird. With my parcel that I ordered from Buyee was on a ship within 3 days, truly astonishing.

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