The balikbayan box: The way Filipino Americans have sent love all the way back home

May 15, 2026
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Beginning in the 1970s, just about every Filipino household in America was either hauling balikbayan boxes in person or mailing them to relatives back in the Philippines | WBBM Newsradio 780 AM & 105.9 FM

Patrick O'Connor

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