Last shipment was 89 pencils @ ¥15,915 
I’ll probably get banged on customs charges, too.
For what it’s worth, I never paid any additional fees with DHL, but UPS and FedEx have nailed me about 50% of the time.
Not sure I’ve had a DHL shipment since April 2022, though.
Dang.
I’ve only used DHL since the pandemic. Prior to the pandemic I didn’t mind shipping by boat.
I feel your pain - shipping prices have gone up quite a bit over the last year or so!
FWIW I am yet to pay customs duty on any of the packages shipped by EMS. DHL has somehow always made me pay. FedEx has been hit and miss.
is there a figure missing? that would be <200jpy per pencil?
No, that’s just for the shipping. The pencils were like ¥170,000.
Wow… Do they charge more for insurance?
ZenMarket seems to have reasonable shipping fees. I go with the ZenShip option. Usually takes 2 to 3 weeks (most of the time it’s 2 weeks).
I wouldn’t take this as representative of the shipping costs with Buyee. I’ve paid anything from ¥6,000 to ¥16,000, depending on the size of the shipments.
I don’t care for ZenMarket’s deposit rules; now that Buyee reduced their fees to the same price (¥300), I don’t really have an incentive to check out ZenMarket.
(But something is definitely up this month—my last shipment was about 30% smaller but less than half the price.)
I recently found out that once you’re a baller of a buyer Zenmarket let’s you go off of credit.
In that case, I’d be king of ZenMarket if I’d used them since April 2021 
US Customs have an $800 value limit for new items. Excede this value for your shipment and you are open to customs charges- I found out the hard way using FedEx once. But, if they are declared as used items, that value limit doubles.