That seems sort of fair, given the situation.
I'm curious - do you think Japan Post subsidized foreign package shipment fees (before the pandemic)?
It's dramatically more expensive to ship stuff from Sweden to Japan, than in the opposite direction, as an example.
> In late 2019, the US government threatened to pull out of the "Universal Postal Union," which is the international treaty that sets what postal services pay each other to trade mail & packages. This started a negotiation where the USA required the ability to "self-declare" the shipping rates it would charge other countries, instead of them being set by the treaty. This resulted in other countries "self-declaring" rates, too... all of which made international shipping through USPS way more expensive than it already was.
It's an old union and it didn't take e-commerce into account. For better or worse, something had to change.