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Santa uses Balikbaya Boxes

Instead of sleighs and reindeers, door-to-door delivery service providers use cargo trucks and utility vans while Christmas elves are substituted with burly men delivering heavy packages called Balikbayan boxes sent between Filipino relatives at home and abroad. In Vancouver, transporting Balikbayan boxes has become a lucrative business particularly during Christmas which symbolizes a season of cheer and plenty for every Filipino family. The box shipped from Canada travels around 13,200 ...

Capturing Christmas

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BALIK means to come back.

BAYAN means hometown or homeland.

So if you put the words together,

BALIKBAYAN means someone who is coming back home.

Balikbayan Box is filled with various gifts and goodies that range from cds, shoes, lotions, canned goods etc sent or brought by Filipinos leaving abroad to be given to relatives and friends back in their homeland, the Philippines