I have two friends here that do frequent shipments using Fedex and Yamato Transport. If you are sending luggage, I have personally good experience with Send My Bag. Hope that might help, good luck!
You could use Yamato as well, but you’d need to fill out the forms in Japanese at one of their hubs and you cannot send food of any kind via their service. More expensive alternatives would be DHL or FedEx.
I’m very confused as to how you find JP Post’s international mail overly complicated. If you find them difficult, your heid will explode trying to deal with someone like Yamato Transport, who have even more severe requirements on shipping.
Create an account at [this link](https://www.int-mypage.post.japanpost.jp/mypage/M010000.do?request_locale=en) as an individual customer. Once past the login screen, you select “Create new labels”. You then slap in the senders address (you, clearly), then the recipient address. You then select what type of shipment you want to do. Depending, you’ll get options to choose land, sea or air, and have to enter a list of contents (for EMS and the like). All they need is the name of the thing, the weight (they do not give a fuck about accuracy here) and the cost, which is used to assess customs payments for the recipient. You can bang whatever on here, unless you really need to prove how much something cost inside a shipment for insurance purposes. Then you hit next, it’ll advise you about printing out your label, save the PDF, and either print it or take the “EN XXX XXX XXX” number to your local post office to get the package taken off your hands.
I’ve sent countless parcels via EMS this way over the past year and its much less of a hassle than trying to handle it with other companies.
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What is the problem with logging in? Make an account and use it.
https://www.int-mypage.post.japanpost.jp/mypage/M010000.do PC version and there’s a similar mobile one somewhere.
You can try using https://www.kuronekoyamato.co.jp/ytc/en/send/services/oversea/ which is ~similar pricing to jp post for EMS but you’ll have to handwrite a bunch of stuff.
I have two friends here that do frequent shipments using Fedex and Yamato Transport. If you are sending luggage, I have personally good experience with Send My Bag. Hope that might help, good luck!
If you’re having trouble with the Japanese version there is an English version available [here](https://www.int-mypage.post.japanpost.jp/mypage/M010000.do?request_locale=en)
You could use Yamato as well, but you’d need to fill out the forms in Japanese at one of their hubs and you cannot send food of any kind via their service. More expensive alternatives would be DHL or FedEx.
I’m very confused as to how you find JP Post’s international mail overly complicated. If you find them difficult, your heid will explode trying to deal with someone like Yamato Transport, who have even more severe requirements on shipping.
Create an account at [this link](https://www.int-mypage.post.japanpost.jp/mypage/M010000.do?request_locale=en) as an individual customer. Once past the login screen, you select “Create new labels”. You then slap in the senders address (you, clearly), then the recipient address. You then select what type of shipment you want to do. Depending, you’ll get options to choose land, sea or air, and have to enter a list of contents (for EMS and the like). All they need is the name of the thing, the weight (they do not give a fuck about accuracy here) and the cost, which is used to assess customs payments for the recipient. You can bang whatever on here, unless you really need to prove how much something cost inside a shipment for insurance purposes. Then you hit next, it’ll advise you about printing out your label, save the PDF, and either print it or take the “EN XXX XXX XXX” number to your local post office to get the package taken off your hands.
I’ve sent countless parcels via EMS this way over the past year and its much less of a hassle than trying to handle it with other companies.