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List of additional charges for optional services
When using the following optional service, the optional service charge is added to the shipping fee of the Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) or the parcel.
Express mail
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | |
| Up to 250g | +300 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Up to 1kg | +400 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Up to 4kg | +690 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Yu-Mail | |
| +330 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) | |
Registered mail
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | |
| Currency registration |
+480 yen (added to the basic rate) (insured value up to 10,000 yen) Further, yen is added to each 5,000 yen11(up to 500,000 yen) |
| Ordinary registered mail |
+480 yen(added to the basic rate) (insured value up to 100,000 yen) Further, yen is added to each 50,000 yen23(up to 5 million yen) |
| Simplified registration |
+350 yen (added to the basic rate) (insured value up to 50,000 yen) |
| Yu-Mail | |
| Ordinary registered mail |
+420 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) (insured value up to 100,000 yen) Further, yen is added to each 50,000 yen23(up to 5 million yen) |
| Simplified registration |
+350 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) (insured value up to 50,000 yen) |
Security service
| Yu-Pack (parcel) |
+420 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) (insured value up to 500,000 yen) |
- We do not handle cash.
Certification of acceptance time
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | +350 yen (added to the basic rate) |
- Applied only to postal items handled as ordinary registered mail.
Certification of delivery
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | |
| At the time of deposit | +350 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Request upon deposit is 480 yen. | |
- Applied only to postal items handled as ordinary registered mail.
Certification of contents
| Postal item (letter) | |
| 1 sheet of transcript |
+480 yen (added to the basic rate) Further, yen is added per sheet+290 yen |
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As for the issuance of an identic certification of contents, the first sheet is charged at the above price, and thereafter at half-price per sheet. |
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| Browsing the transcript |
Per browse480 yen |
- Applied only to postal items handled as ordinary registered mail.
Special delivery of civil procedure code documents
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | +630 yen (added to the basic rate) |
- Applied only to postal items handled as ordinary registered mail.
Acceptance-recorded mail
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | +210 yen(added to the basic rate) |
| Yu-Mail | +160 yen(added to the basic shipping fee) |
Recorded delivery mail
| Specified postage-paid envelope Postal item |
+170 yen |
* Applied only to postal items in specified postage-paid envelope using the exclusive envelope for Letter Pack Plus (specified postage-paid envelope for recorded delivery mail).
ID confirmation delivery service
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | +270 yen (added to the basic rate) |
- Applied only to postal items handled as ordinary registered mail.
- Applied only to items addressed to a single natural person.
Reply-requested mail
| Postal item (letter) | +420 yen (added to the basic rate) |
- Applies only to first-class mail items handled as registered mail (non-standard size).
Cash on delivery
| Postal item (letter) | +290 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Parcels (Yu-Pack parcels, Yu-Mail) | +290 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) |
- Amount to be collected is 2 million yen or less. When the amount to be collected is 300,000 or more, it is required to be handled as ordinary registered mail (security service applied for Yu-Pack parcel).
- Cash on delivery cannot be used for postal envelope.
Delivery date-specified mail
| Standard Mail Services (letter,postcard) | |
| Designate weekdays | +42 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Designate Saturdays, Sundays and holidays | +270 yen (added to the basic rate) |
| Yu-Mail | |
| +52 yen (added to the basic shipping fee) | |
- Delivery date cannot be designated for the third class mail, Braille materials, fourth class mails other than acceptance-recorded mail, and parcels other than Yu-Mail.
- As a general rule, any date within 10 days from two days after the deposit date can be designated as the delivery date.
