All international mails/parcels going to the Philippines need to be collected at the post office. It would only arrive at the recipient's doorsteps if the mail/parcel was sent via a private courier (i.e. DHL, Fedex, etc.). There are very few postman in the Philippines now and the only thing they deliver are the local mails and the notice from post office that you have an international mail/parcel that you have to get in the post office stated.