Privatized Postal Complaints Thread

[GaijinPunch]

Just got back from the post office. My two complaints thus far:

1: The new EMS simulator page has the countries listed in absolutely no particular order. I thought they might be listed by longitude or something like Japan is on many forms. But it seems like that's a negative. Takes ages to sift through all 250 some odd countries.

2: Customer copies of EMS sheets don't store the recipients address. The carbon paper only has the FROM portion. Lame.

Apparently the workers have it the worst though. They have to relearn their job.

 

[Ewok85]

Yeah, I bet whoever was incharge of paperwork and computer systems decided it was time to just change everything, and now the poor bastards have to suffer with someone else's bad idea

 

[JimmySeal]

1: The new EMS simulator page has the countries listed in absolutely no particular order. I thought they might be listed by longitude or something like Japan is on many forms. But it seems like that's a negative. Takes ages to sift through all 250 some odd countries.

Where is this simulator? Is it on the internet or accessible in post offices?

 

[GaijinPunch]

Witness it in it's glory:
郵便局 | 日本郵便株式会社

 

[pipokun]

Just e-mailed them that the renewal was horrible and suggested they should bring back the website of osaka international post office.

This was the useful site I used, though the penguins apologise in Japanese now...
http://www.kansai-airport.or.jp/post/
If I remember correctly, the English page was also there.

 

[JimmySeal]

Witness it in it's glory:
郵便局 | 日本郵便株式会社

Well, that's just wacko. And the language selection box does nothing. No matter what you pick, it goes back to 窶愿ｺ窶怒ﾅ津ｪ.

 

[GaijinPunch]

From the main page, it shows you that there are three sections which are Japanese only (one of them is the EMS fee simulator). I'm going to whip up a form where I can list the countries alphabetically, and then send the values via post to their site. Just gotta get around to it.

 

[pipokun]

ﾂ債ｷﾂ出ﾂ人ﾂ： "窶嚢窶｢ﾃ滅ｽ窶凪?ｹﾃ??窶敘ｽﾂｮ窶ｰﾃｯﾅｽﾃ絶?堋ｨ窶ｹq窶罵ﾆ探ﾂーﾆ池ﾆ湛窶佛? 窶冖ﾆ短ﾆ停?愴耽ﾂー"
ﾅ陳鞘?督ｼﾂ： Re: 窶ｰpﾅ津ｪﾋ彙ﾅｽﾃ椎津ｼ窶堋ｯﾆ探ﾆ辰ﾆ暖窶堙俄?堙や?堋｢窶堙

窶堋｢窶堙や?堙?窶堋ｲ窶藩懌?廃窶堋?窶堙ｨ窶堋ｪ窶堙??堋､窶堋ｲ窶堋ｴ窶堋｢窶堙懌?堋ｷﾂ。
窶嚢窶｢ﾃ滅ｽ窶凪?ｹﾃ??窶敘ｽﾂｮ窶ｰﾃｯﾅｽﾃ絶?堋ｨ窶ｹq窶罵ﾆ探ﾂーﾆ池ﾆ湛窶佛?窶冖ﾆ短ﾆ停?愴耽ﾂー窶堙?*窶堙??堋ｲ窶堋ｴ窶堋｢窶堙懌?堋ｷﾂ。

窶堋ｨﾂ申窶堋ｵﾂ出窶堙俄?堙や?堋ｫ窶堙懌?堋ｵ窶堙??堙債、窶堋ｲ窶｢s窶｢ﾃ問?堙ｰ窶堋ｨ窶堋ｩ窶堋ｯ窶堋ｵ窶堙??堋ｵ窶堙懌?堋｢ﾂ、
ﾂ青ｽ窶堙可申窶堋ｵ窶禿ｳ窶堋ｲ窶堋ｴ窶堋｢窶堙懌?堋ｹ窶堙ｱﾂ。

窶堋ｨ窶ｹq窶堋ｳ窶堙懌?堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶堋｢窶堋ｽ窶堋ｾ窶堋ｫ窶堙懌?堋ｵ窶堋ｽ窶堋ｲﾋ?毒陳ｩ窶堙債、ﾂ債｡ﾅ津｣窶堙姑探ﾂーﾆ池ﾆ湛ﾅ津ｼﾂ湘｣窶堙娯?堋ｽ窶堙淞、
窶懌?独短ﾆ停?愴耽ﾂー窶堙ｦ窶堙ｨﾅ?ﾃ滅淡窶｢窶敖渉絶?堙可申窶堋ｵﾂ出窶堙ｰ窶彖窶堋ｦ窶堋ｳ窶堋ｹ窶堙??堋｢窶堋ｽ窶堋ｾ窶堋ｫ窶堙懌?堋ｷﾂ。

窶ｹMﾂ重窶堙遺?堋ｲﾋ?毒陳ｩ窶堙ｰ窶堋｢窶堋ｽ窶堋ｾ窶堋ｫﾂ、窶堋?窶堙ｨ窶堋ｪ窶堙??堋､窶堋ｲ窶堋ｴ窶堋｢窶堙懌?堋ｵ窶堋ｽﾂ。

窶堋ｱ窶堙ｪ窶堋ｩ窶堙ｧ窶堙?ﾂ、ﾅ?F窶罵窶堙俄?堙ｦ窶堙ｨ窶堙ｦ窶堋ｭ窶堋ｲ窶藩懌?廃窶堋｢窶堋ｽ窶堋ｾ窶堋ｫ窶堙懌?堋ｷ窶堙ｦ窶堋､ﾂ、
窶忤窶氾坂?堋ｵ窶堙??堙懌?堋｢窶堙ｨ窶堙懌?堋ｷ窶堙娯?堙??堙ｦ窶堙ｫ窶堋ｵ窶堋ｭ窶堋ｨﾅ?ﾃｨ窶堋｢窶堋｢窶堋ｽ窶堋ｵ窶堙懌?堋ｷﾂ。

A bit surprised at the quick reply.
But I am afraid that it will take another century just to bring back the site.

 

[Ewok85]

I'm not surprised, thats a canned (automated, generic) answer. You send an email saying you feel like eating fish for dinner tonight, and you would get the same email as a reply.

Will be a while before we get the same level of quality site back...

 

[GaijinPunch]

Will be a while before we get the same level of quality site back...

For shame, as this particular feature could be done in about an hour tops.

 

[pipokun]

Check rates and delivery days - Japan Post

It seems they renewed the site with 4 different language versions, though I still think the the penguin was much better.