wednesday_10_00 | /sighhhhh

I was really starting to wonder why it was taking my August manga order so long to get here (over a month!), and it finally arrived yesterday. Turns out it was not a random fluke that it took so long.

In case you can't read that little sticker, it says:

This item is destined for your country. The sender's and addressee's addresses are in opposite position. It would be greatly appreciated if you would deliver it to the addressee. Thank you.

I don't know who to blame for this: Honto for printing up the weird label (where the heck was the usual green and white international/customs label??) or USPS for getting a package from Japan and sending it straight back. Either way, I feel like I should get a refund on my shipping charges. Also, do I need to worry about this happening in the future? Should I specifically request the international label to be put on? (If so, what's the best way to phrase this request? I don't know what those labels are called in English, let alone in Japanese. 緑色の国際用ラベル?)

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I'm surprised Japan Post even let this thing leave the country without customs information on it.

All my packages have always had the green labels, but I suppose we could speculate that is changeable since these days so much is done via computer printed stuff, but yeah, the customs part at least does seem awfully strange. Just glad you got your stuff - I hope you didn't have to pay to ship twice, though.

I hope you didn't have to pay to ship twice, though.

Ha, fortunately not. Still feel like I should get at least a partial refund on my original shipping cost, though, since at the rate it took to get to me, I might as well have shipped surface rather than SAL.

/sighhhhh

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