You can also order directly from the Order Form above. We will send to the Balikbayan Box, packing list, sending manual and invoice for the payment to your address. Please read the sending manual, and prepare your box to send. Once you are ready to send your box, please contact us and tell us your preferred date for pick up.
For direct pick up in the covered area, you can pay our staff when we pick up your box. For other areas all over Japan , please use the invoice and pay through your local convenience store or post office. You can also transfer the money to our bank account directly. Once your box arrives at our warehouse, we will start to prepare it immediately for export.
If there are any damages outside of your box, we will repair it before we put it into the container ship. To avoid the damage, please make sure to pack properly, especially the fragile items. Please do not change the original size of the box as this could result in damage. Changing the box size could incur additional charges. Certain products are not allowed for export for both Japan and the Philippines. Please check the items below for your reference. You cannot send rice using our service since it has to be quarantined at the Plant Protection Station due to the export regulations of Japan.
Electronics, medicines purchased by prescription, transformers, electric tools and water pumps have to meet the regulation of export trade control orders by METI Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry of Japan. You need to get the approval documents from the manufacturer to send the items mentioned. Computers and game machines also have limits and are monitored.
The main purpose of our service is to help individuals share happiness with their families and friends who live in the Philippines.
Please inform us if your purpose is for business. If you have any concerns or questions, please do not hesitate to contact our customer support. The packing list is necessary for customs for the export declaration. Here's what's inside:. Colgate, Crest and Secret deodorant: American brands like Colgate and Crest seem like mundane inclusions, but they are especially desirable in the Philippines, where a history of U. Clothes: Many balikbayan boxes contain new or used clothing for relatives in the Philippines, often contributed by relatives in the U.
And U. Purses, perfumes and makeup: Boxes also contain more traditional gifts from overseas Filipinos who want to share their relative wealth with their less fortunate family members back home. The peak of the balikbayan box season is always Christmas. The boxes: Large door-to-door balikbayan box companies like Atlas, LBC, and Starkargo have professionalized the practice of sending balikbayan boxes via shipping container or airmail.
Backpack, towels and sheets: A balikbayan box is typically preceded by weeks of communication between overseas Filipinos and their relatives in the Philippines to try to learn about the needs and wants of each of their family members.
Guzman has included a backpack, towels and a comforter according to her family's needs. Chocolate: Chocolates, and many other kinds of sweets, are one of the most common balikbayan box items.
Carmelita De La Cruz, 70, has leg pain and travels through airports in a wheelchair. They scold her, but with smiles. Virgines remembers a time when the boxes her mother sent were the best proof of her love.
When Virgines was 9, De La Cruz, along with thousands of other Filipinos, relocated to another country to earn money for her family.
The s brought high unemployment to the Philippines and a state-sponsored effort to export labor around the world. Thousands of Filipinos like De La Cruz accepted vast distances from their families as a requirement for survival. For many overseas Filipinos, balikbayan boxes became the best way to to bridge that distance. The practice was formalized by an official government initiative to encourage returning Filipinos, or balikbayans , to spend their foreign wages at home in the Philippines.
Tourism officials offered reduced airfares on the then-government-owned Philippines Airlines, hotel discounts, tax breaks and, most important, generous baggage allowances. The balikbayan promotion was supposed to last only six months, but the profitable initiative was extended repeatedly until it became permanent.
Now, about 10 million Filipinos work abroad. At least , balikbayan boxes are sent every month, according to the Door to Door Consolidated Assn. That number drastically increases during the holiday season. In , the government officially waived taxes and duties on goods in balikbayan boxes. Around that time, in Los Angeles and other Filipino enclaves in the U. Nunga, who founded one of the first door-to-door companies in , said the box sizes were set large to maximize the space inside standard shipping containers.
And when De La Cruz retired after 40 years cleaning houses in Hong Kong, Virgines brought her to America so that they could finally be together. She had hoped that they could enjoy a quiet, comfortable retirement together. But almost immediately, De La Cruz took a job as a cashier at a Ralphs grocery store.
Her mother was bored, Virgines said, and there was something else De La Cruz needed money for: sending balikbayan boxes to her family in the Philippines. The contents of a balikbayan box are shaped by history, colonialism and Filipino ideas about family.
American-made or American-sold products are highly coveted. Colgate toothpaste, Spam and corned meat are big. Decades of U. S colonization and influence made many Filipinos avid consumers of American culture and products, Ocampo said.
Generations grow up under a public education system established by an American government that uses English as the official language of instruction. And American products bound for Asian markets flowed through the Philippines and found customers in Filipinos, Ocampo said. But boxes are more than just vessels for pasalubong , the Tagalog term for souvenirs for relatives.
Before a box is sent, the sender usually speaks with relatives and friends about their tastes, preferences and needs. Relatives who have never met one another can form close relationships through phone calls, video chats and gift giving. Ocampo himself grew up with boxes all over his house. His old clothes often went into boxes, then appeared on his cousins.
When his grandmother passed away, his cousins took the loss hard, even though they had never spent much time with her. The boxes embody the little white lies immigrants tell to console their relatives back home and affirm their decision to leave. After a long shopping session at the Torrance Costco on a recent weekday, Norbyl Caburog parked a shopping cart piled high with canned goods, toilet paper and rice and unwraps a burger from the food stand.
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