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Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Monday, October 29, 2018
Suspension of SAL for Mexico
We have been informed by Japan Post that all forms of SAL are suspended for Mexico until further notice. Airmail and EMS remain available.
All orders bound for Mexico and using SAL Small Packet will be automatically upgraded to Airmail (Epacket). We thank you for your understanding.
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Note on prohibited items (forwarding service)
From September 1, Japan Post has started to enforce increasingly stringent rules regarding items that may or may not be shipped overseas. All companies attempting to ship prohibited items may be fined upwards of 500,000 yen. In that light, we would like to remind our customers that the following types of products cannot be shipped overseas, without any exception.
- lighters/zippo, even non-filled.
- nail polish
- perfume / eau de toilette
- hair dye
- paint
- ALL lotions (including lotions for adult toys)
- ALL sprays
- mobile phones
- USB chargers
- all recent portable and non-portable gaming consoles
Any kind of weapon
Narcotics, including medication. Vitamins and supplements are acceptable.
We are counting on our customers' cooperation to not ship any of the above. We would also like to remind everyone that the nature of the contents as well as the sender should always be stated in the comments box, especially in the case of original packaging. Thank you for your understanding.
Friday, August 24, 2018
Thursday, August 9, 2018
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
Friday, August 3, 2018
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Monday, July 2, 2018
Friday, June 22, 2018
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
Friday, April 20, 2018
Thursday, April 5, 2018
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Announcement regarding the situation of SAL shipping in Europe
It has been 3 months and a half since all forms of SAL have been
suspended for France, Spain and the Netherlands. Since the situation is
showing no signs of improving, we have now disabled SAL for those three
countries. We therefore ask you to please choose alternative shipping
methods for your preorders. To compensate for the absence of Regular SAL
Small Packet, we have now added a Regular Airmail option. We thank you
for your understanding.Tuesday, March 20, 2018
Friday, March 9, 2018
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Thursday, February 22, 2018
Monday, February 19, 2018
Change to the pricing policy of our forwarding service
Starting from February 19, the price of repackaged tickets will be raised to 1500 yen versus 1000 yen previously. The price of tickets for original packaging will remain unchanged. All other rules will also remain unchanged.
Of course, all tickets that were opened before the price change will be billed at the old rate.
We thank you for your understanding.
- Big in Japan
Friday, February 16, 2018
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Monday, February 5, 2018
Friday, February 2, 2018
Thursday, February 1, 2018
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Update to our forwarding policy
Since we are faced with an increasing number of parcels arriving to our facilities without a ticket to match them, and that sometimes lie around for months without being claimed, we have no choice but to modify our policy concerning unclaimed parcels :
- instead of 6 months as has been our rule so far, unclaimed parcels will now be kept in storage for one month only. After one month, if there is no ticket and no communication from the customer , we will consider the parcel abandoned and will discard its contents at our discretion.
Also, we would like to kindly remind our customers about a few basic rules of our service :
- a ticket should always be opened before we start receiving matching shipments. More parcels can be added later on in the comments box if necessary, as long as the bill hasn't been issued.
- the comments box of the ticket should contain the number of expected parcels and their respective senders. Again, that information can be updated if necessary.
- we kindly ask customers not to use kanji for their name, unless the name in question is of japanese origin. It will make it basically impossible for us to decipher what's on the label. Please use katakana if letters are not allowed.
We thank all customers in advance for their cooperation so we can keep offering a smooth, price-competitive service.
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Update about SAL shipments
We are sorry to inform our customers that the situation with SAL shipments bound for France, Spain and the Netherlands has not improved. Collection of those parcels is still suspended and no change is planned in the very near future.
In the worst case scenario, this situation could continue until spring time.
As a consequence, and since we are starting to lack storage room, we are kindly asking our customers to have their orders upgraded to another shipping method of their choice : Airmail, EMS or Fedex (some restrictions may apply).
Please contact us to let us know what your choice is. This applies both to orders that are currently in storage and orders that are about to become available.
Orders for which we receive no communication will be automatically upgraded to the cheapest available method.
We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.
Big in Japan