Gift Courier to USA — Gift-Safe Packing & Free Pickup

For a USA gift parcel, share the full item list, genuine values, recipient name, and complete address before pickup. CBP’s separate bona fide gift allowance may apply up to USD 100 per recipient per day when its conditions are met; goods that do not qualify may be dutiable or require a different entry. Food gifts also face separate admissibility and labelling checks, so an allowance does not guarantee that an item can enter. SLP Express prepares truthful itemisation, checks the available DHL, FedEx, UPS & more service options, and confirms the expected transit before collection.

Raksha Bandhan in August and Diwali in late October are the two windows where American customs queues lengthen visibly. CBP and FDA both run reduced staffing during Thanksgiving week, which creates a bottleneck that rolls into December. If your festival hamper contains homemade sweets with dairy, APHIS will inspect them — and if the ingredient list is not in English, the parcel gets held pending translation. We write every ingredient declaration in plain English on the commercial invoice, declare the fair market value honestly, and pack food items in vacuum-sealed inner liners so X-ray images are clean. Silver pooja items and handloom sarees sail through when invoiced correctly, but over-valuing them triggers a valuation query. Our rule is simple: declare what the item is worth in India, not what it would retail for in New Jersey.