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RE: This Is Japan
I don't know enough about Japanese culture, but maybe the extra charge (given what you said) has to do with paying extra for being "properly" punished for your transgression, vs. skating by on the relative anonymity of mailing it in... a version of "taking your medicine/falling on your sword."
That could be. It could also just be a way to keep people from coming to the station and tying up officers' time, or even a way to keep people from challenging the charge. I don't know.