The Bureau of Customs (BOC) on Thursday started the delivery of some 130,000 unclaimed "balikbayan" boxes. This in response ...

Some 20 container vans of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are set to be processed this week. ...

TWENTY-ONE shipping containers of abandoned balikbayan boxes of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will be processed this week ...

THE Bureau of Customs (BoC) has started delivering 'balikbayan' boxes sent by overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) to their ...

The Bureau of Customs (BOC) has launched an online tracking portal for door-to-door Balikbayan box deliveries as part of ...

HOUSTON — Balikbayan boxes were invented more than 40 years ago when an influx of Filipino workers came to the United States. Now, they've become a cherished part of Filipino culture. The boxes ...

A quick-response code allowing overseas Filipino workers and their families to track the deliveries of balikbayan boxes has ...

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 ...

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 ...

To figure out what might have happened and what you can do, it might help to understand first the long journey balikbayan boxes go through MANILA, Philippines – The balikbayan box has been an ...

I have never personally received a balikbayan box from abroad addressed to me, nor have I sent one home from abroad to myself (to, say, avoid airline excess baggage fees). But I have surely received ...