Urgent help! Has anyone sent any parcels by courier?

[RickyR]

Balikbayan boxes are the best way. If you send by courier again, clearly mark the items as gifts of no value.

[South-east boy]

Balikbayan boxes are the best way. If you send by courier again, clearly mark the items as gifts of no value.

I had marked the value down, but they say they check and x-ray stuff, so it would be clear that the items were not worthless. But how much they do actually check the items and x-ray the parcels, I don't know? If I had known that the customs charges could have been this much on top of the courier charge, then I would have definitely sent a balikbayan box.