New shipping rules from Japan to US (Nov.17th)

[GameFreak]

So I heard that if you want to order ANYTHING from Japan to U.S. over 1 pound that it can NOT be shipped EMS (expressMailServices) Air mail and it must ONLY be shipped be sea. That is crazy!! That takes a really long time. This is effective today. Make sure you are only paying for Sea mail when ordering.
Also....If you are ordering from China to U.S. they have a 21 day hold to inspect from customs before it is shipped.
This is all from the bomb plot discovery recently. It will really effect a lot of orders. If you guys are planning on ordering a few games or console/accessories than it may take a lot longer than you thought.
--Just wanted to give you guys a heads up when ordering Christmas presents.

[_joshuaTurbo]

well, indeed that really does blow.  eeesh.

[Arkhan]

so much for repairing my Rising Stuff order... 

[pixeljunkie]

supposedly the big proxi services [SMJ, Celga, Rinkya] won't be affected by this. It mainly restricts individuals, not businesses. But yeah, everything is gonna' sit in customs forever now. Definitely sucks.

[Colossus1574]

Goddamn terrorists gotta ruin it for everyone else!  Next time i get probe searched at an airport, i'm gonna yell out "DAMN YOU BIN LADENNNN!!!!!!!!"
(not to say i got searched before...ever  )

[SignOfZeta]

Does anyone have a link? This kind of sounds real, but also kind of sounds like bullshit.

[Necromancer]

Besides limiting the shipping of toner cartridges and barring shipments out of Somalia and Yemen, no other changes have been made in US Homeland Security rules, so the Japanese are overreacting.  Certain businesses seem to be exempt, so it may not matter; but if all else fails, send your stuff to a Canuck for forwarding.

Does anyone have a link? This kind of sounds real, but also kind of sounds like bullshit.

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

[GameFreak]

Check this....

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/11/security-theater-the-ripples-spread-to-japan/66542/

Also check Rising Stuff Store update page here..    http://www.risingstuff.com/

And I have a store in China I order from that told me about the 21 day customs hold for everything in their country.

It's real,... but it may be temporary but probably for at least 6 months to a year if not longer.

[Tablet]

Talk about a knee jerk reaction, so this is just going to affect shipments to the US? Then again I can see our poxy british government doing the same... like our customs laws wern't craptacular enough as it was

[TheClash603]

Lame...  but I guess if there is legitimate fear of mailed bombs, then I suppose me waiting is okay.

Still lame though.

[henrycsc]

I won a couple Yahoo Japan auctions about a month ago, and they just got to Goody today.  Goody did inform me about the new delay in shipping, so it looks like I won't be getting the stuff until January or February.  At least with Goody, I can still get insurance on SAL shipping.  Good news is I bought the Xmas stuff domestically, and it arrived today!  So hopefully someone will get a TurboGrafXmas!

You might want to make sure that insurance will be an option from your international seller because some sellers won't purchase insurance on SAL shipping - a huge bummer.

[Frank_fjs]

Thanks for the warning, I had no idea this was happening.

[nat]

Indeed, although it wasn't much of a warning-- apparently this is now already in effect.

[BlueBMW]

I wonder how this might affect the short term pricing of Japanese stuff?

[Frank_fjs]

Does this only affect the shipping of goods to the US? I'm thinking that other countries, like where I am in Australia, may not be affected by this.