Mitch Villaseñor picks up a balikbayan box. Boxes will then be loaded onto a container, driven to California, and shipped to the Philippines. Credit: Pat Nabong As a kid living in Laguna, a province ...

Peak season for sending care packages begins in September in time for Christmas Dubai: Officials have reminded Filipino expatriates to send their balikbayan boxes, or care packages, through legitimate ...

Philippine Bureau of Customs grants relief till March 31 following criticism Dubai: Filipinos and freight forwarding companies in Dubai have welcomed the the Philippine government’s move to ...

This is a story familiar to many of us who have experienced shipping ‘balikbayan’ boxes around the holidays with relatives receiving them several months later, or worse, not receiving them at all. The ...

The total number of Balikbayan boxes that were shipped to the Philippines this year amid the coronavirus pandemic dipped by 5 to 10 percent compared to 2019, the Bureau of Customs (BOC) said Thursday.

MANILA, Philippines – Bureau of Customs Commissioner Isidro S. Lapeña issued a directive suspending the revised rules on balikbayan boxes after it drew flak from various overseas Filipino workers ...