thanks for that - well one of my friends won't be getting their gift then :-P
they are in Japan - so will have to appease them some other way :)

Any (logical/understandable) reasoning behind why those countries are excluded? And where'd you get the info from?

it is really annoying - it is almost like they are saying we cannot possibly have friends in other countries, so why would be need to know - well guess what Humble, we have both friends and family in other countries - that's why we need to know - grrrrr !!!!

Thank you for the effort. I bashed them via twitter and their support page, their reply was that they'll put an effort into informing us about region lock, but no follow up effort after all. I am searching for the mail from Humble Support.

They're really an asshole.

Edit: Found it

Hello,
Thank you for contacting us here at Humble Support. We're sorry that you are experiencing this issue but we would be happy to help you! That said, this Steam article has some information on how to let Steam know how to handle region locked games when travelling: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=1266-QFZC-2141
Please let us know if this does not resolve the issue or if there's anything else we can help with!
-Jason
Humble Bundle
http://support.humblebundle.com/

Completely irrelevant to what I asked. Bunch of morons.