Piles of stuffed animals, clothes, hangers, towels, decorations — even bird feeders — were neatly gathered in Nita Matheson’s Springfield, Virginia, house last Wednesday. In her garage, flattened ...

The act of lovingly packing a balikbayan box and sending it back to loved ones is one way of showing them they are always in their hearts. As a child growing up in the Philippines, I remember one of ...

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 ...

Balikbayan boxes sent by qualified Filipinos abroad will be duty- and tax-free starting Christmas Day, December 25 MANILA, Philippines – Good news for overseas Filipino workers (OFWs). Starting ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has set a new deadline for the delivery of the estimated 130,000 abandoned balikbayan boxes to ...

A balikbayan box door-to-door service operator shares the important things you need to know about sending parcels during the pandemic. Those who are unable to travel to the Philippines due to the ...

Few Filipino Americans have ever opened a balikbayan box, muses chef Aaron Verzosa of Archipelago, about the giant care packages filled with food, clothing and trinkets sent home to the Philippines ...