This isn't a whinge thread, well sort of a bummer.

As many of you may know Japan had refused to send economy Registered SAL to 8 countries including us Australia.

I wonder any of you guys have more light on this on why we are included in this and how is this fair? giving that they send this to Singapore and other countries without issues.

How this affects us?
We are forced to used EMS which is more expensive. Somehow many stores refused to send unregistered economy SAL which is actually available.
several online stores do not send unregistered parcels even for cheap items thus making you pay EMS even for a small item.

While I am a bit bumped that this happened since this year, it does affect my business with Japanese stores even if items are at correct prices.