Sending Balikbayan Box from Missouri

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9 minutes ago, Solaris81 said:

I said FedEx, but it was USPS. I used the medium and large sized boxes. I think I was paying $15.

USPS large size box is peanuts.  The jumbo box used for balikbayan purposes is 18x24x24 with unlimited weight.  It is shipped by ocean container.  Last fall ours took 75 days and it weighed in excess of 100#. 

 

Our next one should go end of June. 

Edited May 8, 2020 by payxibka

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23 minutes ago, payxibka said:

USPS large size box is peanuts.  The jumbo box used for balikbayan purposes is 18x24x24 with unlimited weight.  It is shipped by ocean container.  Last fall ours took 75 days and it weighed in excess of 100#. 

 

Our next one should go end of June. 

I was also shipping one every two weeks. 

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15 minutes ago, Solaris81 said:

I was also shipping one every two weeks. 

If you were sending a balikbayan sized box every two weeks for $15 that only took a week,  then you need to come forward with how because everyone will want to jump all over that

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2 hours ago, Solaris81 said:

Holy cow!!! Three months??  I used to send FedEx boxes to a friend who was deployed to Afghanistan and it took maybe one week. 

Yeah the Philippines is completely different than Afghanistan. You must of been sending something to someone on a military base there which is why it was only $15 and took 1week. If you were to send the same box to the Philippines in 1 week then it would be $100+ at the very least. 

 

41 minutes ago, Solaris81 said:

I was also shipping one every two weeks. 

How big was the box

24 minutes ago, payxibka said:

If you were sending a balikbayan sized box every two weeks for $15 that only took a week,  then you need to come forward with how because everyone will want to jump all over that

Probably sending it to a APO