If I send a cell phone or somthing expensive?

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I love these lists:

12. What are the prohibited items?

NAME

LABEL/DESCRIPTION

Acetal

Flammable

Acetic Acid

Corrosive

Acetone

Flammable Liquid

Acetylene

Flammable Gas

Acridine

Flammable Solid

Acrylic Acid

Flammable & Corrosive

Adhesive

Flammable

Aerosols

Flammable Gas

Alchohol

Flammable

Alkali

Dangerous When Wet

Aluminum Alkylhaides

Flammable

Barium Azide

Flammable Solid & Poisonous

Batteries (wet cell)

Corrosive

Battery Fluid

Corrosive

Benzene

Flammable Fluid

Black Powder (gun powder)

Explosive

Brake Fluid

Flammable

Butane

Flammable

Calcium or Calcium Alloy

Dangerous When Wet

Camphor

Flammable

Chargese (propellants)

Flammable

Chlorine

Flammable

Chloroform

Poisonous

Coal

Flammable

Coal Tar

Flammable

Cyanide

Poisonous

Decaborance

Flammable Solid & Poisonous

Detonators

Explosives

De-icing fluids

Flammable

Deithylamine

Flammable Liquid

Disenfectants

Poisonous

Dyes

Corrosive

Expoxy

Flammable

Ethyl Acetane

Flammable

Ethyl Menthyl Ether

Flammable & Poisonous

Ferric Arsenate

Poisonous

Fire Extinguisher

Corrosive & Pressurized

Fireworks

Flammable & Explosive

Flares

Flammable

Formaldehyde

Flammable Liquid

Zirconium powder

Spontaneously combustible

Gas

Flammable

Hydrogen

Flammable Gas

Ink

Flammable

Isoprophyl

Flammable

Isoprophyl

Flammable

Lead Arsenities

Poisonouse

Lighter Fluids

Flammable

Liquified Fluids

Flammable

Lithium

Dangerous when Wet & Flammable

Lithium batteries

Flammable

Magnesium

Flammable

Manganese

Flammable

Matches

Flammable

Methane

Flammable

Mercury

Corrosive

Motor Spirits

Flammable

Napthalene

Flammable

Nicotine (compound or prap)

Poisonous

Nitiric Acid

Corrosive & Poisonous

Octane

Flammable

Organic pesticides

Poisonous

Oxygen (liquefied)

Combustible

Paints

Flammable

Perfumery products with flammable solvents

Flammable

Petroleum oil or base

Flammable

Pine Oil

Flammable

Phosporous liquids

Flammable

Potassium

Poisonous

Primers

Dangerous when Wet

Projectiles

Explosive

Propane

Explosive

Radioactive substances

Flammable

Resin Oil

Poisonous

Sodium Chlorite

Flammable

Sulphur (molten)

Poison oxidizer

Tear Gas

Poisonous

Turpentine

Flammable

Urea

Flammable & Poisonous

Vernish

Flammable

Vinyl Chloride

Flammable

9. What are items not accepted for shipment?

1. Illegal Drugs
   
2. Money
   
3. Money Order/Postal Order
   
4. Credit Card/SIM Card/Prepaid Cards
   
5. Firearms and its parts/explosives/Toy Guns
   
6. Firecrackers
   
7. Jewelry/Ivory
   
8. Products made of animal skin
   
9. Antiques
   
10. Pornographic materials (CDs/DVDs/VCDs/Magazines/Pictures)
    
11. Fake leather goods (like fake Gucci, Louis Vuitton)
    
12. Native bags made of plant products (i.e. Abaca)
    
13. Liquor
    
14. Cigarettes/Tobacco/Cigar
    
15. Perishable Items
    
16. All kinds of drugs/medicine
    
17. Pirated CDs/ACDs
    
18. Gambling paraphernalia (i.e. playing cards)
    
19. Publications, films and videotapes
    
20. Religious publications
    
21. Meat products
    
22. Gases
    
23. Flammable liquid
    
24. Flammable solids
    
25. Toxic
    
26. Infectious substances
    
27. Corrosives
    
28. Poisonous materials
    
29. Radioactive materials
    

[Calypso 464]

I sent a mobile phone to my mother and a digital camera to my brother in a single box via LBC air cargo for $30. The box arrived two weeks later in Cebu and the contents were unscathed.

[DaRoq 36]

There's no SIM card in iPhones 4 and 5. My phone is jail broken, and still does not work over seas. I have iPhone 4S. So. Good luck with that

The iPhone is quad-band, so is capable of working anywhere. However, U.S. models are carrier-locked and wont recognize another carrier's sim card. A simple jailbreak will not unlock the iPhone. I got mine unlocked by the carrier, which they will do as long as the phone is no longer under contract. Now my Globe sim works fine after I cut it own to microsim size.

[Rahstyles 10]

Good to know! Not sure how this person ever got an iPhone to work there...

http://store.apple.com/us/buy/home/shop_iphone/family/iphone5

The unlocked iPhone only works on supported GSM networks, such as AT&T in the U.S. When you travel internationally, you can also use a nano-SIM card for iPhone 5 from a local GSM carrier. The unlocked iPhone 5 is model A1428. For details on LTE support see www.apple.com/iphone/LTE. The unlocked iPhone will not work with CDMA carriers such as Verizon Wireless or Sprint. Learn more about the unlocked iPhone

The unlocked iPhone includes all the features of iPhone but without a wireless contract commitment. You can activate and use iPhone on the supported GSM wireless network of your choice, such as AT&T in the United States. The unlocked iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 will not work with CDMA-based carriers such as Verizon Wireless or Sprint.

If you don’t want a multiyear service contract, or if you prefer to use a local carrier when traveling abroad, the unlocked iPhone is the best choice. It does not come with a micro-SIM card for iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S, or a nano-SIM card for iPhone 5, so you’ll need to get one from any supported GSM carrier worldwide. To start using it, simply insert the card into the slot on your iPhone and turn it on by pressing and holding the On/Off button for a few seconds. Then follow the onscreen instructions to set up your iPhone.

[Carie_Azan 35]

Like I said, my iPhone is unlocked and does not work overseas

And Al's. on 4s and 5 there is no slot for a SIM card

[Darnell 8,478]

if carrier is ATT or TMobile, there is a sim card slot.

if carrier is Verizon or Sprint, there is no sim card slot.

Is quite easy to purchase used 4 or 5, that was used on ATT or TMobile, and unlock it for use in the PI.

What makes the difference here, is the Carrier as the internals and frequencies are totally different.

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

if carrier is ATT or TMobile, there is a sim card slot.

if carrier is Verizon or Sprint, there is no sim card slot.

Is quite easy to purchase used 4 or 5, that was used on ATT or TMobile, and unlock it for use in the PI.

What makes the difference here, is the Carrier as the internals and frequencies are totally different.

If there is a way to do it, there is somebody in almost any Filipino shopping mall that can do it for you.

[Darnell 8,478]

yup. is actually cheaper to unlock it in the PI, than to unlock it in the USA.

[Carie_Azan 35]

The iPhone is quad-band, so is capable of working anywhere. However, U.S. models are carrier-locked and wont recognize another carrier's sim card. A simple jailbreak will not unlock the iPhone. I got mine unlocked by the carrier, which they will do as long as the phone is no longer under contract. Now my Globe sim works fine after I cut it own to microsim size.

Awesome, but you totally made my head spin with all that..LOL

Edited March 20, 2013 by Carie_Azan

[Mar_Wil 12]

if i were sending expensive items that are likely to be stolen. the only service i would consider is FED EX

I agree.

[Rahstyles 10]

Awesome, but you totally made my head spin with all that..LOL

Whats your iphone carrier? i bet youu its probobly sprint?/

[Carie_Azan 35]

You got it!

[Juliet and Steve 93]

Also do they open peoples boxes to check iT? Does the philipine have bans on things to send like electronics or somthing??

Cause this guy at my work said he wants to send a ####### to the philipines and he dont know for shure if that his wifes gonna get it cause he read somthing about philipines banning those..

Im not trying to troll im just wondering. Cause it seems alot of stuff here that is okay in the usa is not legal in the philipines..

How nice that you offer to help your friend from work out. All of us need more friends like you who are willing to front-run sensitive subjects.

My understanding, which you can explain to your friend, is that pornography is illegal in the Philippines. Now, explain please, to your friend, that a #######, or a vibrator (just in case your friend might be interested in later sending a vibrator to add to his wife's sex toy collection) though not pornography, is considered related, and as such is "illegal and immoral."

See:

http://www.edenfantasys.com/sex-forum/customer-service/international-ordersattention-edenfantasy/

Now I realize that the following information might not be useful to you since clearly, you would never send such a loathsome item to essentially a devout Catholic Nation, but it may be to your, uh, over-libidinous friend:

In Japan such items as dildoes are also considered immoral and illegal and are in violation of the law. However for some strange or odd reason items that are clearly dildos and vibrators but are--well, they really aren't disguised at all, but strangely since a feeble attempt has been made to disguise them, even though they don't fool anyone, these items are allowed.

An example is the classic "rabbit" vibrator (google it under google images, but only if you are one of....those people (who are over-libidinous, immoral and interested in such illegal things--oh wait, no, forget that, we are only looking at cute little animal things, not sex toys, so it's ok).

So indeed, if your friend's wife was in Japan, this would be useful information, but whether or not it will fool a Filipino Custom's officer is quite another thing. Now, of course, since so many things routinely disappear from boxes including balikbayan boxes, and it seems that it's not always related to expense (chocolates are commonly seized...or perhaps eaten) your, uh, friend will likely never know if it was seized on the grounds of being immoral and illegal, or perhaps it was seized because the officer was an over-libidinous person who wanted to add to his collection of uh, little animal toys.

The short take: I suggest that you suggest to your friend that sending a ####### is probably not a good idea.

Edited March 21, 2013 by Juliet and Steve

[Jon and Krissy 452]

Chances that the phone would even be operable in another country is slim to none. Why not send some $$ so she can get something she can utilize?

Slim to none? Are you serious? The Nexus 4 is a world phone. Most smartphones are.

[Jon and Krissy 452]

There's no SIM card in iPhones 4 and 5. My phone is jail broken, and still does not work over seas. I have iPhone 4S. So. Good luck with that

Yeah, that's because you have the wrong version of the phone. You need the GSM version of the phone, which DOES have a SIM card. I have both an iPhone 4 and a 5, both have SIM cards.

Edited March 21, 2013 by Jon and Sol