JAPAN POST: “OUR TRANSPORTATION PERFORMANCE HAS SIGNIFICANTLY DECLINED”

Japan Post has announced a temporary suspension of the acceptance of international mail from 126 countries for EMS and Air Mail, and for all types of mail from 27 countries. 

Japan Post has posted on their website as of April 1, 2020 – “The novel coronavirus pandemic has caused many countries/territories to take measures such as stopping acceptance of inbound postal items as well as considerable suspension and reduction of flights from/to Japan. Accordingly, our transportation performance has significantly declined. Therefore, acceptance of international mail items, mainly EMS and parcel-post/letter-post items by air and SAL, will be temporarily suspended from April 2. For details, please see the attachment (PDF16KB).

Items which have already been accepted and cannot be dispatched to their destinations will be returned from the delivery offices to the senders in order. In addition, because of the global reduction of flights, considerable delivery delays are expected for outbound mail items to other countries/territories.

For additional details see- https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/2020/0401_02_en.html

Looking Back to Go Forward: The US Postal Service and the Future of International Mail

With the looming US withdrawal from the UPU one month away and the likely impending chaos that will engulf the American consumer and business markets the USPS would be well advised to look back over the past twenty years when it had in hand international services developed on the framework of its domestic products seen in these examples as a guide going forward 

– International Business Reply Service, IBRS

– International Customized Mail, ICM 

– Inbound Priority Mail Direct Entry from Canada Post

– Inbound Priority Mail Flat Rate from Singapore Post (see photo below)

– Inbound Direct Mail from Singapore Post

– “Clicks2Bricks”, Integrated Global Distributed Photo Processing/Finishing (printing) and Delivery Model – “Clicks to Bricks”™ USPTO Patent Application: 0090310181

– USPS FedEx public private partnership: Global Express Guaranteed®