[WARNING] 16 Months Undelivered Balikbayan Box & Charging 2nd Shipping Fee in Manila - RDR Cargo

OCT.2015 PACKAGES STILL UNDELIVERED

Package suppose to be for Christmas

FilipinosOfNY and many Newyorkers are warning Kababayans living in the East Coast to refrain from shipping your Balikbayan boxes to RDR Cargo if you do not want delays and paying another shipping fee when your boxes arrived your delivery address in the Philippines. I have personal experience of undelivered box with RDR. My used tv was picked up last October 20th 2015 by Rommel and up to this date, the tv has NOT yet delivered to the destination. I paid $120+tip for a used 46" tv (see invoice attached). Yes, it's been 16 months of agony. I keep calling but no one is answering their phone. I went to their office in Woodside NY and all I got is the same excuses with their 3rd party trucking company problem in the Philippines. I called my sister in Makati and she told me RDR Manila will not deliver the TV unless we pay another shipping fee. I've heard a lot of complaints with similar stories from our Kababayans in the East Coast. Today, while writing this blog my tv is still undelivered.

Anybody who read this, contact me at erickgomez@msn.com, let us all join together and file a class action lawsuit against this company. I'd been to their office in Woodside Queens more than 20 times and every time I go there I'm hearing complains from walk-in customers and some over the phone and the lady is telling different stories.

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Where to file complaints? (NY State)

• Philippine Consulate General
  Telephone: (212) 764-1330
  Fax: (212) 764-6010
  Email: newyork@pcgny.net
• NYPD - Telephone at (212) 825-5959 or 212-3-NYC-DOI;   Fax (212) 825-2504

            Writing a letter or visiting the NYC Department of Investigation
                Address: 80 Maiden Lane, 17th Floor, New York, N.Y. 10038
            Filing a complaint online by clicking here

• NY Attorney General's Office - https://forms.ag.ny.gov/CIS/consumer-complaints.jsp
• BBB - http://www.bbb.org/new-york-city/business-reviews/shipping-masters/rdr-cargo-express-in-woodside-ny-151087
• NYC Consumer Affairs - http://www1.nyc.gov/site/dca/consumers/file-complaint.page
• Federal Trade Commission - https://www.ftccomplaintassistant.gov/Information?OrgCode=IRS#crnt&panel1-3

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Ms. Fatima B. Pacampara
Officer-in-Charge, Mediation Division
DTI-Fair Trade Enforcement Bureau
GF UPRC Building, 315 Sen. Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City
DTI Hotline at 751-3330

RA 7394, The Consumer Act of the Philippines (http://www.dti.gov.ph/contentment/9/63/files/FILE273_001.pdf)

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According to Customs Commissioner Alberto Lina:

We, at the Bureau of Customs (BOC), are pleased to announce that Republic Act No. 10863, otherwise known as the Customs Modernization and Tariff Act (CMTA), has been approved and signed into law by His Excellency President Benigno Aquino III.

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• full electronic processing of shipments,
• streamlining of export and import procedures,
• simplified processes for seizure and disposition of illegal goods

Under this law, OFWs can send up to three P150,000-worth of tax and duty free balikbayan boxes in a year, as long as the goods are not in commercial quantities nor intended for barter, sale or for hire.

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• Stayed overseas for 10 years or more – P350,000 tax-free ceiling
• Stayed overseas for 5 years but less than 10 – P250,000 tax-free ceiling
• Stayed overseas for less than 5 years – P150,000 tax-free ceiling

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