I've lived in Japan for several years alone and before I left, I sent back my belongings with Japan Post's boat parcel shipping service. I packed all my belongings into 6 boxes total, all itemised and fitting the weight limit so when I had someone come to my place to pick them up it was a pretty smooth process. Fast forward to two weeks later and I received a letter in the mail saying that none of my parcels were able to be shipped – apparently the box size was not accepted from Australia for being too big.
This leaves me with a pretty huge problem since I'm no longer in Japan, and don't have anyone close enough to me to ask such a huge favour for of sorting out my boxes into smaller ones. I've asked the post office and they also said it's impossible for them to rearrange anything, I have to have someone to request to do it for me or I go there to do it myself.
I was wondering, has anyone else ever found themselves in such a situation or can offer any advice at all?
It seems like its possible to send the boxes through EMS, however that will be an additional charge for me of over $1500~ … atm this seems like it may be the only option however any possible tips or advice would be greatly appreciated.
by 18matcha