When BOC Commissioner Yogi Filemon Ruiz was informed last month that there were thousands of balikbayan boxes abandoned in their warehouses, he immediately found himself on a trip down memory lane when he was still struggling to fill up one.
When Bureau of Customs Commissioner Yogi Filemon L. Ruiz was informed last month that there were thousands of balikbayan boxes abandoned in their warehouses, he immediately found himself on a trip down memory lane when he was still struggling to fill up one.
“We would buy a large balikbayan box at the post office and I am telling you, it takes time to fill up a single large box. We became bargain hunters, we would ask and search for malls that are on sale so that we could buy them at discounted prices,” said Ruiz during the Manila Bulletin Hotseat interview on Tuesday, Nov. 22.
“That’s why I feel for the OFWs and their families when I was informed that there were thousands of balikbayan boxes that were either undelivered or abandoned,” he added.Last month, Ruiz coordinated with the Association of Bidders at the Bureau of Customs who became owners of the over 8,000 balikbayan boxes after biddings were conducted for those abandoned at the Portnet warehouse in Sta. Ana, Manila and at the Hobart warehouse in Bulacan.As of Nov.
What happened was that while the OFWs have already paid all the expenses for the delivery of the balikbayan boxes, the companies that received the balikbayan boxes abroad failed to send the money for the payment needed by the deconsolidators in the country for the delivery to their relatives.
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