Volks Int resumes international orders, temporary switch to DHL (UPDATED)

2 hours ago, Zaliayn said:

Haha the powers that be must have heard me, because I got my shipping notice from Volks this morning! 🤣 It's coming via EMS so it'll probably be a little while until it gets to the UK, but at least it's moving! 😃

Yey! Shipping notices are always exciting. My parcel left Japan pretty quickly and also didn't take too long to get to the UK. It was the customs wait that was a killer! And then they delivered it a day late, parcelforce are terrible sometimes 🙄

Does anyone happen to know if EMS (or airmail) has resumed at the international site? I'd like to ship to my PO Box in the future, but I don't think DHL does that. A recent order shipped by DHL, so I wasn't sure if it was an option yet.

Edited February 19, 2021 by dark_dollies

11 minutes ago, dark_dollies said:

Does anyone happen to know if EMS (or airmail) has resumed at the international site? I'd like to ship to my PO Box in the future, but I don't think DHL does that. A recent order shipped by DHL, so I wasn't sure if it was an option yet.

No, EMS is still unavailable for the United States and Canada, among other countries.  You can check here: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/overview_en.html

3 hours ago, OccultBeast said:

No, EMS is still unavailable for the United States and Canada, among other countries.  You can check here: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/overview_en.html

Thank you! That is a clear "no" to EMS according to japanpost for the USA. 

3 hours ago, OccultBeast said:

No, EMS is still unavailable for the United States and Canada, among other countries.  You can check here: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/information/overview_en.html

I work for a public sector school, and we're potentially looking at not resuming in-person classes till next spring. I can't say if that same schedule applies to postal services, but there is a good possibility that we could still be a year or more out from a return to normality across all sorts of government and private services.

27 minutes ago, BeyondTime said:

...there is a good possibility that we could still be a year or more out from a return to normality across all sorts of government and private services.

I 100% believe it, even though I'm not thrilled about it, but considering how some countries *cough united states cough* have been handling things thus far, I can't blame them.