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• About OCS
  • OCS History
    Founded in 1957, OCS helped pioneer global overnight air express delivery. OCS established a private international courier network in markets where none had existed before.
• Services
  • Courier Services
    OCS specializes in speedy door-to-door courier transit of time-sensitive business materials. Once our OCS driver picks up your shipment, we manage every detail of its movement, through foreign customs and into the hands of your recipient.
  • Air Cargo and Freight Forwarding
    OCS can ship heavy weight cargo to virtually any market. With local OCS facilities in 70 countries, we can arrange all the details, including customs clearance and final delivery.
  • Publications Distribution
    OCS provides logistics for many of the world's premier publishers and distributors, moving all types of publications to overseas subscribers on all continents.
  • Trade Shows and University Fairs
    For trade fair exhibitors traveling overseas, OCS offers a safe, convenient way to transport materials and displays to virtually any destination city. Wherever the venue, OCS will carefully ship your booth displays, literature, and supplies, guide them through foreign customs, and ensure on-time delivery to your convention site or hotel.
  • Customs Brokerage
    All OCS courier services and most OCS freight services include automatic, free customs clearance at the overseas port of entry, for documents, printed matter, and most non-document (dutiable) shipments. This brokerage service is invisible to the shipping customer, and, unless there are duties or taxes to be paid overseas, also invisible to the recipient. It is inclusive in our door-to-door service.
  • Wholesale Publications
    If you are a publisher or distributor of magazines or periodicals, OCS might be the only distributor you'll ever need in the Japanese market.
  • Mail Order Catalog Distribution
    OCS combines hand-delivery with direct injection into the Japan postal system, meaning speedier delivery of your catalogs.
  • Inserts JAPAN/U.S.
    Interested in reaching Japanese consumers directly? The OCS Inserts Japan service might be your perfect marketing tool.
  • Merchandise Distribution
    OCS provides direct merchandisers with expedited merchandise fulfillment throughout Japan, at a very competitive cost.
  • Fulfillment Services
    OCS can help move your product through the various phases of warehousing, packing, and distribution.
• How To Ship
  • Insurance
    OCS provides automatic insurance coverage free of charge for all non-document shipments valued up to $100, excluding only certain restricted countries. This coverage is for theft, loss, or damage of contents. You don't have to do anything extra to receive this coverage, but the value must be verifiable from the commercial invoice that you originally attached to the shipment.
  • Customs, Duties and Taxes
    OCS clears your shipments through foreign customs, by performing an appropriate type of customs procedure, depending on the nature and value of the goods, the mode of transport, and the import regulations of the destination country.
  • The OCS Courier Waybill
    All courier and express cargo shipments require the use of an OCS Courier Waybill (CWB) which will be supplied to you free of charge by your local OCS office. To have CWBs or other shipping supplies delivered to you, please call your local OCS office.
  • Using the Courier Waybill
    This document walks you through using the Courier Waybill.
  • The Commercial Invoice
    A commercial invoice, in 3 copies, is required for shipments containing any item other than business documents. Since the definition of 'business documents' varies according to destination country, it is often confusing for the shipper to know when it is necessary to complete a commercial invoice. If there is any question about a particular shipment, your local OCS customer service at 1-877-2222-OCS can advise you.
  • Using the Commercial Invoice
    This document walks you through using the Commercial Invoice.
  • AES (replaces Shipper's Export Declaration or "SED")
    The SED or "Shipper's Export Declaration", unlike the Commercial Invoice for foreign customs, required by the U.S. federal government to export certain high value shipments or regulated, licensed commodities.
    The federal government now requires that this documentation be filed through the AES - "Automated Export System". See www.aesdirect.gov.

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• Fuel Surcharge
  • Fuel Surcharge Explanation
    
    Fuel Surcharge for July 2009: 5.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for August 2009: 6.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for September 2009: 5.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for October 2009: 7.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for November 2009: 7.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for December 2009: 8.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for January 2010: 9.00%
    Fuel Surcharge for February 2010: 8.50%
    Fuel Surcharge for March 2010: 9.50%