PHL Customs officials ruin little boy's Christmas

No thanks to an allegedly unreasonable postal fee, a child faces a sad Christmas because he can't get a package sent by his father.

 

The incident, which reportedly reduced the child to tears, is going viral on social media site Facebook.

 

"We went home without my son's package that he has been waiting for for almost a year because they wouldn't give it to me unless I pay the said amount, which I wasn't stupid enough to do... I'd rather buy them out here then. So my son went home crying (because) he didnt get the toys that he has been waiting for," the mother, Dana Porcalla, said in her December 15 Facebook post.

 

Porcalla said the incident occurred at the central post office at Domestic Road in Pasay City.

 

For its part, the Philippine Postal Corp. said the employees involved were Customs examiners assigned to the Post Office.

 

 

Porcalla said the examiners told her to pay P2,300 in fees, which supposedly included:

 

 

"For your info, this package is a gift from his father, we ain't selling them plus the stuff inside, all together, sums only to $40... cheaper than what these freakin' Customs examiners are askin from us.. a lot of other people there were complaining as well," she said.

 

"I hope you share this and voice out how heartless these people in the Pasay Post Office are," she added.

 

As of Thursday noon, Porcalla's post had over 3,600 Likes and almost 6,000 shares. — Joel Locsin/TJD, GMA News