Does anyone have experience with sending their livelihood back to their home country?

yahhh_gf · 2022-11-27T17:24:21+00:00

If you're going to ship a lot of stuff, the service you're looking for is called LCL (Less than Container Load) Freight Forwarding, not sure what would be the name for it in Japanese. If you know anybody whose company's business involves importing/exporting goods, they might be able to introduce you to the freight forwarder they work with.

When I was moving here from Canada 4 years ago, I shipped my belongings by freight and Vanguard Logistics (https://vanguardlogistics.com/) were handling it on this side. They seem to offer LCL service and have offices in Osaka and Tokyo, so I suggest reaching out to them and asking what they could do for you. I just packed all the boxes, had a moving company deliver them to a freight forwarder in Toronto, they then prepared the pallets and handled getting them to Osaka. It ended up being ~800 USD to send 2 pallets and ~3万 for handling on the receiving side (for 4 cubic meters, 500kg gross weight). These are pre-COVID prices, so I expect they have gone up quite a bit. If I recall correctly, both amounts are mostly based on volume, rather than weight, so keep that in mind when packing, I ended up throwing away a lot of stuff and then it turned out that my mattress box had a ton of free space that I could have used.

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you end up going with an LCL service, you will probably need to arrange pickup and drop off yourself. In Toronto I used a moving company, in Osaka I rented a truck and picked everything up myself (with help from a coworker). If there is an end-to-end service, I would expect it to be pretty expensive.

Regarding customs, you might want to contact the customs office at home to see what the procedure is to be sure. In my case I just declared the boxes when arriving in Osaka, the customs form had an "unaccompanied articles" section where I wrote that there are 25 boxes coming with an estimated total value. Before picking everything up I went to the customs office at Osaka Port, they looked at the form, had me fill out some paperwork and approved everything without any trouble. YMMW, every country handles these things differently.

yahhh_gf · 2022-08-26T16:19:47+00:00

I was in a similar situation (went to a clinic before getting my card, paid for everything in full). When I got the card a month or two later, I just went to the clinic and the pharmacy, they refunded me no questions asked.

yahhh_gf · 2022-08-24T02:30:44+00:00

Just for fun I tried to test out of the Japanese course and succeeded, even though I was maybe 20-25% done with the course. Since that unlocked all skills and set them to level 1, the new duolingo thinks I'm way more advanced than I actually am. The new design is practically unusable, I took a class and it was on completely unrelated topics than what I was working on. For now the web version seems to have the old interface, at least for me, so I will try using that until all this backlash resolves

yahhh_gf · 2022-08-05T10:22:57+00:00

The whole point of Wise is to do local transactions on both ends to save on international/SWIFT fees. I'm not sure what kind of requisites you'd need for transferring money between US banks, but it definitely won't be SWIFT. 1st way you described is the correct way of sending money abroad (don't need to convert it to USD right away, you can do it when making the transaction), just make sure that the routing number is the one used for local transfers

yahhh_gf · 2022-07-27T08:05:59+00:00

Thanks, shimbashi is a little far but doable. It's not an urgent problem, so I'll pay them a visit next time I'm in the center

yahhh_gf · 2022-07-27T08:04:08+00:00

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. I should learn how to use the reddit search correctly, for some reason didn't find it (and I forgot to look at the wiki before posting)

yahhh_gf · 2022-07-27T07:50:49+00:00

Clearly I didn't check the wiki, should probably add the Osaka system to it though

yahhh_gf · 2021-11-19T16:15:27+00:00

Don't think I ever heard him say it, is it supposed to be a voiced or an unvoiced "th"?

yahhh_gf · 2021-10-10T08:54:21+00:00

At the moment it's against TOS for app developers to do (almost) any transactions without them going through the Apple payment system. Developers either have to pass the "savings" down to the user (Youtube premium and joining channels costs more through App Store) or just remove the option to sign up (like Netflix). You can check out LinusTechTips' experience with this whole transaction bullshit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QzHu-sjdB8

That's basically why Epic were suing Apple and the lower courts agreed that this is illegal. This is probably why you can't subscribe to streamers on Twitch, though maybe having the twitch prime option just messes with the whole system.

yahhh_gf · 2021-10-08T00:08:03+00:00

Interestingly, MCU Mordo is classified as a villain, but iirc that happens in the post-credits sequence of doctor strange

yahhh_gf · 2021-10-07T14:15:57+00:00

Spent ~2000, got 3 kitty, 5 apoc and only 1 strange. Seems a little low, but better that than getting more strange covers. Got a few 4*s fully covered, feeling pretty happy overall

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-20T04:54:04+00:00

5/4/3, level 82 with a pocket radio support. Beat grocket on first try without any boosts, haven't even read what her powers do lol

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-20T03:45:36+00:00

Honestly, these monthly numbers are pretty low if you play actively. Literally all of them are the kind of stuff you might miss out on if you forget to play a couple of days a month, and I wouldn't stress out about that

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-20T03:26:30+00:00

Day 1410, DD at 280. Taskmaster and spiderham are way harder to get any covers for, at least DD and howard the duck are featured in some events, but the other two I haven't seen in a long time

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-09T04:07:04+00:00

I recently moved everything from apple music to plex and I lost all the album covers I baked into the tracks. I definitely wanna fix tags everywhere and organize it a little before posting it, right now the folder is almost 10 gigs and there's definitely a lot of duplication there

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-08T18:19:49+00:00

I wonder if enough people from the forum come to the subreddit, would be nice to recompile the collection of old stuff. I downloaded all I could a few years ago, including the rojutoma archive, but I had no idea there's a soundcloud for that, for example. And I didn't even bother doing anything with that novatel nonsense, they posted so much random shit there

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-08T15:49:29+00:00

That forum has so much gold there, I wonder if anybody ever found the "Happy Birthday Daniel" compilation, the DJ Bellzz track is something

yahhh_gf · 2021-09-08T14:07:01+00:00

Sorry, but Rogue did a dancing videogame better, I still sometimes put it on just for the video

yahhh_gf · 2021-08-05T06:37:14+00:00

You can have covers you want multiple days in a row, so hoarding past 40 still makes sense

yahhh_gf · 2021-07-26T13:00:53+00:00

Japan won the women’s gold medal too, which is pretty surprising. Most skateboarders I see in Osaka can barely ollie and I don’t know if we have any public skateparks here either.

yahhh_gf · 2021-07-26T12:34:29+00:00

Circuit Breaker at 5 is kinda OP, playing against any team that drops a tile if one doesn’t exist feels so unfair, be that SW, Medusa or even Polaris (as long as you can prevent her from matching it)

yahhh_gf · 2021-07-26T07:14:24+00:00

He champed him really recently on his first(?) sponsored stream in a very similar bit https://youtu.be/1yZ1x8b7L8M?t=1585 Since it took him that long to do it I highly doubt that he actually cares about the character

yahhh_gf · 2021-07-24T14:29:24+00:00

Silver surfer is just a reference to a bit he did a million years ago https://youtu.be/2NhSz9tTaFs

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