What is the reason for the type of mail that got shut down? Is it normally by boat and the boats stopped running? It seems like on a global scale most delivery stuff is still going on, maybe a bit slower in some cases.

I have a friend who needs to ship out of Hong Kong. I can tell you that he’s greatly effected by the lack of passenger flights. Much of his shipping went through a shipping aggregator, but ultimately, most of his shipping ended up as being extra space on passenger flights. His shipping costs are currently cost prohibitive on much of his volume business, from like $5/item to like $30.

And worse, there are package quotas now with many carriers, so he’s had to stop using aggregators.

Here’s more about the service they use, Surface Air Lift (or Lifted), SAL: https://www.post.japanpost.jp/int/service/dispatch/sal_en.ht... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface_Air_Lifted

I don’t know the details for Japan, but almost every country‘s post has been affected: https://www.linns.com/news/us-stamps-postal-history/internat...

Our shipping fee went up by 30% but not prohibitively expensive.

We are doing 150k a week in sales.

From Hong Kong.