Can I Use A Postcard Stamp On A Letter

Delight use registered mail for sending valuables.

Click here for the compensation of the amercement of postal items.

FAQs, inquiries

Are all postages tax-inclusive prices?

Yes, they are tax-inclusive prices.

Can the unused stamps and postcards exist refunded?

We do not refund in greenbacks.

However, we substitution items without a contaminated or damaged postage marker (part showing the postage value of the postcard) for a prescribed fee.

Can the postage stamps attached to letters or postcards be exchanged?

We exchange stamps that are non contaminated or damaged for a prescribed fee.

Can spoiled postcards be exchanged?

Yes, information technology tin can be exchanged. It requires a fee.

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Please annotation that spoiled postcards with soiled or damaged stamp marks (part showing the stamp value of the postcard) cannot be exchanged.

Tin can a spoiled letter pack be exchanged for stamps, postcards or a new letter of the alphabet pack?

Yes, it can be exchanged. The fee is 42 yen.

Where should you attach stamps?

Delight adhere postage stamps on the tiptop left on the front end of the postal particular (on right top for horizontally-long postal items).

Can postcards be sent with papers stuck to the surface?

Please send afterward ensuring that they will non come up off easily.

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Three-dimensional items such equally origami cannot exist attached
Paper larger than the size of the postcard cannot be fastened
Newspaper that can exist peeled off (such every bit stickers to keep information hidden) cannot be attached to the sender'due south side of a respond-paid postcard.
Zip tin can be attached between the postcard and whatsoever fastened items, and cypher used to separated these tin can be affixed.
Postage stamp stamps other than those used for paying the postage etc. cannot be attached (other than those appointment stamped for commemoration).
If information technology is too thick, information technology will be handled every bit a alphabetic character requiring dissimilar postage stamp.

Should I draw the boxes for the zip lawmaking on home-made postcards?

No, you do not need to.

Should I use a certain color to draw the boxes for the zilch code when making a postcard or envelope?

Information technology should be vermillion or bronze red.

No black or bluish ink should be mixed in.

I heard that you must indicate "postcard" on dwelling house-made postcards. Tin can I indicate so in English?

Yeah.
Please bespeak "Mail service Bill of fare."

If there is no indication, it is handled as a letter of the alphabet (first class mail).

Can y'all transport postal items that are not rectangle-shaped, such every bit star-shaped, heart-shaped or fish-shaped, as a standard size postal item?

No, you cannot.
Irregular-shaped postal items that are non rectangular-shaped cannot be deposited every bit standard size postal detail, even within the standard size. Please transport them as nonstandard size postal items. (Foursquare items must likewise be sent equally nonstandard size postal item because they are non rectangular-shaped.)

Are all items with thickness over 1cm unable to be sent equally a standard size postal item?

If the thickness when squeezed lightly is within 1cm, information technology can be sent as a standard size postal item.

Can a postcard about 1cm larger than postcards sold at post office counters be sent for 63 yen?

The maximum size of a postcard is 10.7cm x 15.4cm. Postcards larger than this cannot be sent for 63 yen. (It will exist either standard size or nonstandard size.)

The size of postcards sold at post office counters is 14.8cm x 10cm.

Which is preferable for printing a postcard: inkjet press or standard printing?

The suitable blazon of postcard depends on the printer used.

Is the old postcards and envelopes with five-digit zip code boxes unusable?

You tin used them as is. Please write down the sixth and seventh digits under the boxes for fourth and fifth digits respectively.

Is there whatsoever service with which documents or articles can be sent easily?

There is a service called Letter Pack, with which articles tin can be sent without stamps. Packages of A4 size upwards to 4kg, also including correspondence, tin can exist sent throughout Japan for a flat rate. Delight refer to the relevant link pages.

Are the counters to deposit postal items and Yu-Pack parcels open at night?

Some counters are open up at night.

The opening hours at the counters of each post office differ. Please confirm with the particular post office.

Is there a service with which items are delivered also on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays?

There are services with which items are delivered also on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays every bit follows.

Express mail
Delivery time-specified mail
Registered mail service
Cash on commitment
Delivery date-specified mail
Electronic postal mail (Letax)
Letter Pack Plus, Letter Pack Light
Yu-Pack (parcel)
Yu-post (handled every bit ordinary items with which tracking information is entered)

How long are items kept at the delivering mail part when the receiver is absent-minded?

They are kept for vii days. When the items cannot be delivered to the receiver within 7 days, they are sent back to the sender.

I want to go on a tape of sending a postal item at the lowest cost possible. Is there whatsoever recommended service?

We recommend acceptance-recorded mail.
A special handling fee of an additional 160 yen is charged.
It is a service that records the credence of the postal particular. Information technology is delivered to the mailbox of the receiver.

Am expecting a postal item to arrive, but information technology hasn't. Who should I contact?

Please contact the nearest postal service role. At that place is an investigation organization.
Post offices involved in the process of the postal item are checked, and you are told the upshot.