 I did have one experience where I was expecting a delivery and when it got to me, I opened it and... Today is the clash of the shipping services. We'll be reviewing Johnny Air, shipping cart, and PO Box and how do they all stack up together, which is the easiest to use, which is legit. Who should you trust to bring over your items from the states or some other country to the Philippines? Before we get to the individual nitty-gritty of each shipper, I will just go through what they all have in common. So all of the shippers here in this list do that. Shop online, you send it to their warehouse. They will take care of bringing it from the states here to the Philippines. For all of these three shippers also, you don't need to worry about additional fees, which means taxes. You know, sometimes when you go through a third-party service, you get assessed custom stacks on items coming inside the country. But the nice thing about all of these three shippers, once they give you a price, that's it. That's all in. You don't need to worry about paying customs or some other fee or some other thing. So it's really nice that all of these services take care of that for you. And that's one of the major reasons why I use them. And for the third point, which all three shippers have in common, they are all legit. Trust me, I have used all of them many times for many different kinds of items and all of them from the three shippers. The items will arrive to you in good condition. You just don't know when they will arrive. Sometimes depending on volume of shipments and time of the year, like Christmas, it could take a while. It could take a couple of months before your items reach you here in the Philippines. But rest assured, these three guys, I've never had a problem. Over the years, over multiple items, all three of these guys have proven themselves reliable in that your item will reach you in good condition. First up on our list is Johnny Air, and they are like the grandfather or the big daddy of all shipping services. I think they've been the one who has been doing it the longest or they've been around quite a long time and they're the first service that I use. And perhaps how long they've been at it is reflected in the customer experience. They're the most manual intensive shipper among the three on the list. And basically what I do when I ship via Johnny Air is that I order online, I send it to their warehouse address and then I email my contact at Johnny Air. Hi Johnny, for example. Johnny, you know, this is my item, this is the tracking thing and you can see when it reaches your warehouse, I'm just letting you know and let me know when it arrives in the Philippines. So everything is manumano, everything is by email and then the guy will reply back to me, yes, got it, I'll let you know. So I email and then I hear nothing from them for the next couple of months. And then suddenly out of the blue, maybe two months later or so, Johnny Air will text me saying that your item is here, come get it for pick up. What's unique about Johnny Air is that they're the only service that I've used where you don't need to pay. You only pay once the item is here in the Philippines and you go there to pick it up. Personally, I just go to their office here in Makati, it's on a quiet street right behind AIM so I get their text, I come over and then that's when I pay the fee. It's the only service that I know that lets you pay once the item is actually here in the Philippines rather than having to pay when the item reaches the warehouse in the States. I've only ever tried their shipment by sea although last time I talked to them, they did indicate that they do air freight now as well which is a much faster way of getting your items. But Johnny Air is very reliable, if you don't mind a bit of manual processing involved, I would highly recommend them. And if Johnny Air is like the granddaddy of all of these shipping guys, shipping cart is the new kid on the block and it really feels like the new kid on the block. It's very shiny, it's very tech literate because everything is processed through their website and everything is automated with shipping cart. It feels very web 2.0, very hip, very now. You don't need to email them that hey, please expect this item and once they receive the item, they will email you that hey, we've received the item and they'll even send you a picture of the item. So everything is very organized, everything is very slick, everything is very just log on and everything is convenient at your fingertips. What I like about shipping cart is it's the one with the most personality. I shipped an item from the UK, they do accept also shipments from the UK. It was a model of a, it was a model of the Battle Star Galactica. If you're a sci-fi fan and you haven't seen that series, you should, it's an awesome series, this is the reboot BSG. So I got a model from the UK and I had it shipped here and when shipping cart received the item and notified me, they received a little comment on the website that hey, this is the item you got and by the way, it's super cool. So that's the first ever shipper I've encountered that actually took the time to appreciate the item, to take a look at the item and think that this is pretty uncommon and yeah, it's pretty cool and I'll let the customer know. You can select either air shipment or shipment via sea and everything comes out there, the cost and they will not ship it to you here in the Philippines until you pay for it online. Overall, I have no complaints about shipping cart, they're a super good service, I've used them a lot as well. One quirky experience I did have with them, one unique experience was that I had one order which had several small items and then one big item. And when that order arrived, I couldn't find the small items and so I contacted their customer service and like, you know, this shipment should have like five small items, I can't find them. And it turned out that it was partly my fault because the small items what shipping cart did was they put it inside the big item. I don't know, I guess that same space, I don't know if that saved me money but once I opened up the big item, I found the little item still boxed inside the big item. So my takeaway from that experience was that the customer service of shipping cart is very reliable, they have a chat button there on their website, again very web 2.0 and customer service was very responsive, they helped track me through the problem and together, we finally solved the mystery of where the smaller items went. In terms of responsiveness, the automation of shipping cart is much more convenient from a UI or from a customer experience perspective than Johnny Air. And actually the ones behind shipping cart are the same owners of LBC so you can tell that logistics is in their blood that they have a lot of experience with that and they really thought about how to make it easy for the customer. It's the easiest shipping service I've used among the very many that I've tried. So if you want a no-brainer shipping service may be slightly a bit pricier but if you don't mind that and you do feel that you get what you pay for, everything is very convenient, it's very fast, it's very I don't want to think anymore this is a service for me. And the last service in our review head-to-head today or our review shipping match up today is PO Box. PO Box is actually like a mixture of Johnny Air, the manual nature of Johnny Air versus the automation of shipping cart because with PO Box you log on to their website but you have to tell them through their website, there's a form there that hey, please expect these items. So yes, they do have a website but it's nowhere near streamlined, nowhere near as automated shipping cart so please expect these items. Here are the tracking numbers. Here's the description of the items. And PO Box is a little slow compared to shipping cart and Johnny Air. It takes a little while for them to acknowledge that they got the item. Sometimes I did need to follow up that hey guys, it's been a while according to Amazon, the items are already with you guys. Can you update it on your end? PO Box also does ask you to pay where for they send it from the states to the Philippines. The usual process is that they receive it in the states, they measure it and they tell you, they send you an email saying that okay, it's going to take 4000 pesos to ship over your items and please deposit in our bank account. So again, it's a very manual process unlike the online credit card payment of shipping cart. You pay via bank deposit although a nice feature of PO Box is that you either choose to pay in dollars or in pesos. PO Box is really like if you got the manual nature of Johnny Air mixed with some of the web-savvy web 2.0 nature of shipping cart and you get PO Box. I did have one experience where I was expecting a delivery and when it got to me I opened it and there were shoes which was great except I didn't order shoes. I ordered electronics and I'm like, what the heck is this? So I immediately emailed PO Box saying that, you know guys, I got shoes I was not expecting shoes, I was expecting this and to be fair, they immediately got back to me, okay we're going to send the courier back, they're going to get back the shoes and please stand by, no it was like could you please describe your item and I'm like, oh no this is going to turn out badly but after I gave them all the details they managed to track down the item and a couple of days later they did manage to get me the proper item so still 100% success rate on the part of PO Box but you know I was a bit concerned a little bit that like am I really going to get the item that I ordered but but they pulled it through and they managed to get me my item. So again that's all hypothetical PO Box in the end did not let me down. So among all of those 3 services who would you go for personally for me if you're not rushing and you don't mind a bit of manual nature and you don't mind a bit of manual back and forth I would still go with Johnny Air if you don't if you want a lot of automation and you want the item right away then perhaps shipping cart is the best option for you and for bulk orders like I used PO Box or a bunch of bulk orders and they haven't let me down so basically I'm not going to make any recommendation all 3 of them are fine I would trust them with all of my items and I have trusted all of them with multiple items over the years it just really depends on what you need you need super fast go with shipping cart you are willing to put up with a bit of snail paste manual back and forth between you and the shipper then PO Box and Johnny Air are both fine choices but if you're looking for PC parts you don't need to look abroad because hardware sugar has your back we will find items for you that other shops don't have we will deliver them to you free of charge within Metro Manila and you know we really try to make buying PC parts or buying a whole rig super easy for customers if you are looking for PC parts do let us know chat us up in the comments look for us on Facebook believe me you won't regret it we will find you the part that you need or we will suggest alternatives and that's it for the shipper round up thanks for watching