Retail and logistics
Postal item standards — "standard size" names four conditions, not an envelope
Standard mail is not a size of envelope but the name of four conditions met together — length, width, thickness and weight — and breaking any one of them moves the item to a different price table entirely; the 1cm thickness limit is really the line between what a sorting machine can swallow and what it cannot
This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.
Notes in the source (in Japanese)
定形郵便物は、4 つの条件を全部満たしたもの。長辺 14〜23.5cm・短辺 9〜12cm・厚さ 1cm 以下・重さ 50g 以下で 110 円。どれか 1 つでも外れたら定形外になり、料金の表そのものが変わる。
下限は、はがきと共通の 14 × 9cm。定形のいちばん小さい大きさは、はがきのいちばん小さい大きさと同じ。
厚さは 2 本の線で効く。 1cm を超えたら定形外、3cm を超えたら規格外。定形外は規格内(長辺 34cm・短辺 25cm・厚さ 3cm・重さ 1kg 以下。140〜750 円)と規格外(長辺 60cm・長辺+短辺+厚さ 90cm・重さ 4kg 以下。260〜1,750 円)に分かれ、同じ重さでも厚さが 3cm を超えるだけで、高いほうの表に移る。
はがきには下限の重さがある。長辺 14〜15.4cm・短辺 9〜10.7cm・重さ 2〜6g で 85 円 ——2g より軽いと薄すぎて機械で扱えない。上限だけでなく下限が書いてあるのは、郵便の規格では珍しい。
料金は 2024 年 10 月の改定後の額。出典:日本郵便「手紙・はがきの料金」https://www.post.japanpost.jp/send/fee/kokunai/one_two.html(2026-10-02 照合)。
Source (YAML)
examples/gallery/297-郵便物の規格.zumen.yaml
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