Quote Originally Posted by s_v View Post
Well, it looks like Digitaka has decided that they are in for a long haul with courier services as the only way to ship products. All long and one-piece rods now incur 6,000 JPY "oversize charge". I think that's the reason the website was down for some time yesterday. PLAT has not done that yet, it only adds a reasonable (in comparison with Digitaka's new policy) "handling" charge. JPAngler is OK, too, their shipping charges for long and one-piece rods are still reasonable. Is this a sign of times and are we going to lose free shipping at some point soon unless EMS is back?
Probably so, or the price will simply reflect higher shipping costs until commercial air traffic increases substantially.