subject: Get More For Your Money When Posting Items To Japan [print this page] Japan is an incredible country with one of the most vibrant cultures available. The country is also one of the 10 most populated countries in the world, with over 100million people living in its towns, cities and villages. For this reason alone, businesses are seeing an impressive increase in the number of orders for goods from Japan.
Japan is more than 5,000 miles from the UK, making most people believe that sending mail to the country will cost you an arm and a leg. This really isnt the case though, especially if you switch to using a courier service.
Couriers are the best delivery method to use if you want your items to arrive at their destination on time. At the Post Office you can choose from a number of delivery types, including surface mail. Surface mail is one of the slowest delivery options available, with mail to Japan taking at least 2 weeks to arrive. Of course, Royal Mail do offer other delivery methods but none of them provide you with particularly good value for money.
When a customer buys goods from you, even if they are based in Japan, they want to know that their mail is going to arrive in a timely fashion. Japanese customers will realise that their items will take longer to arrive than those send to customers living down the road from your business, but they dont want to have to wait forever. This is why courier companies allow you to choose from a variety of postage estimates, usually spanning between 3 and 5 days.
Now, you might think that just because a courier promises to get your goods to Japan on time doesnt mean they actually will. To allow you to keep tabs on your deliverables many courier services have put tracking systems in place, which let both you and your customer find out where in the world your parcel is at any one time.
As your package is shipped from the UK to Japan it will be checked in and out of various posting stations. The status and location of your parcel is updated on the couriers tracking system and all you need to do is type in the tracking code youll be provided with when your item is collected for delivery.
With Royal Mail, there are restrictions to the size and weight of parcels that you can have delivered. Although couriers are also faced with certain limits theyre usually a lot more lax, meaning that you can post larger than usual items to Japan with a courier service.
