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Free delivery of “balikbayan” boxes is provided by BOC-Cebu.

After the shipments were abandoned in warehouses, largely in Manila, the Bureau of Customs-Port of Cebu announced on Tuesday that it is finishing the free delivery of 185 “balikbayan” boxes to families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs).

The boxes landed in Cebu in late December, according to Mario David Luminarias Jr., BOC-acting Cebu’s deputy collector for operations, and are now being delivered to the consignees living in this nation’s capital as well as Lapu-Lapu City, Cordova, Dumaguete City, and the province of Bohol.

The majority of the shipments that were loaded aboard two 20-foot container vans, according to Luminarias, came from Dubai.

According to him, Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz directed his staff to gather the abandoned boxes in various warehouses in October of last year and then ordered their free delivery to the consignees in Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao.

The Bureau of Customs does not levy any fees throughout the holiday season. I believe that President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. gave the order to give it free of charge, including any applicable tariffs and taxes. We are thinking of the OFWs who desire a nice life for their family, Luminarias told the Philippine News Agency.

He continued by saying that the BOC, working with cargo handlers, had covered the cost of delivery.

Luminarias stated that this week’s delivery of the parcels was to be completed by the subports of Mactan, Dumaguete, and the customs office at Panglao International Airport in Bohol.

According to Mactan Subport Collector Gerardo Campo, the distribution to the recipients in Lapu-Lapu City and the hamlet of Cordova has been finished.

Campo told the PNA, “We can’t even begin to picture their (the consignees’) feelings when they received their items.

Evidently, some of the consignees had given up hope of ever receiving their balikbayan boxes due to schemes by dishonest overseas consolidators who would just take the freight payments without having a clear arrangement with local forwarders regarding the delivery.

By advocating for legislative actions to stop such scams in conjunction with the Department of Trade and Industry’s Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau, Ruiz provided a long-term solution.

Luminarias claimed that as a result of the inter-agency agreement with the DTI and the Department of Migrant Workers to implement cooperative measures to combat the illegal activities of “balikbayan” box consolidators abroad, the BOC under Ruiz established the Balikbayan Box One-Stop-Shop.

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