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asiajin.com — Chinese buyers are expected to receive all goods ordered within two days via air mail delivery and distribution through China Post. The mall will be the biggest of its kind in China, with initially 20,000 different Japanese products listed. Buy-J.com (inactive as of now) will be run by Japan’s Sumitomo Mitsui Card and China UnionPay.

www.bizcult.com — One agent said packages sent and delivered to Beijing within China could not contain powder, liquids or batteries. Certain things are understandably illegal to send by mail. In the U.S., for example, it has been illegal to mail children since 1913. That makes sense. Firearms are banned by the U.K.’s Royal Mail service (although “sporting guns” are permitted). But batteries?