There are long delays with shipping Balikbayan boxes by sea these days, because of Covid, so that my wife sent a box by airfreight - Banned items are perfume. No freight service will allow perfume to be transported. So neither DHL. Fedex and any other carrier will allow anyone to do this. This link may be useful to you all https://www.parcelhero.com/en-gb/terms/prohibited-items They removed the perfume, my wife placed in the box, and then it was sent to the Philippines, and held up in Customs, and very unlikely to ever ship this way again.