How do I send a parcel home from Vietnam?

Bring the items unsealed to a post office or courier counter, let them see and pack the contents, complete the customs declaration accurately item by item, and keep the receipt and tracking number. Photograph the contents before the box is closed and the sealed box afterwards — those photographs are what make a claim possible if it arrives damaged or does not arrive at all.

Can I post coffee, tea or food home from Vietnam?

Whether you can depends far more on the destination country than on Vietnam. Many countries restrict or prohibit importing food, seeds, plant material and anything of animal origin, and a parcel that breaks those rules is normally destroyed rather than returned. Check your own country's customs and biosecurity rules before you pay to ship anything edible, and declare it accurately — an undeclared food parcel is the version that gets destroyed and fined.

Can I ship antiques or old items out of Vietnam?

Be careful. Vietnam restricts the export of cultural property and antiquities, and something sold to a tourist as an antique may not be legal to take out of the country. If an item is genuinely old, ask the seller for documentation and check the position with Vietnamese customs before shipping. This is one of the few areas where getting it wrong is a legal problem rather than a delivery problem.

Should I under-declare the value to pay less duty?

No. The customs declaration is a legal document, under-declaring is the most common reason a parcel is held, and it caps your compensation if the parcel is lost — you cannot claim more than you declared. The saving is small and the downside is the whole value of the box.

Does EddyTrip ship parcels?

No. EddyTrip sells travel eSIMs and publishes a Phu Quoc guide; it does not offer courier or shipping services and does not recommend a carrier. This page explains how the process works so a traveller can deal with the post office or a courier themselves.

Sending a parcel home from Vietnam

No prices and no transit times here — those are the two things that go stale fastest.

EddyTrip does not ship anything.

We sell travel eSIMs and write a Phu Quoc guide. We do not run a courier service and do not recommend a carrier. This is here because travellers buy more than they can carry and the advice available is either a courier’s own marketing or a forum post with eight-year-old prices in it.

How it actually goes

1.Take it to the counter unsealed
Whether you use the post office or a courier, the contents normally have to be seen before the box is closed. Turning up with a taped parcel usually means opening it again in front of everybody, so bring the items and let them pack it or watch you pack it.
2.Declare what is actually inside, item by item
The customs declaration is a legal document and it travels with the parcel. Under-declaring the value to save on duty is the single most common reason a parcel is held, and it also caps what you can claim if it is lost — you cannot claim more than you declared.
3.Photograph the contents and the sealed box
Before it is closed and again once it is sealed with the label attached. If it arrives damaged or short, those two photographs are the difference between a claim and an argument.
4.Keep the receipt and the tracking number
Photograph them too and email them to yourself. A paper receipt in a backpack for the rest of a trip is a receipt you will not have when you need it, and without the tracking number nobody can look anything up.
5.Check the destination country's import rules, not just Vietnam's
Both ends matter. Food, seeds, plant material and anything of animal origin are restricted or prohibited by many countries regardless of what Vietnam allows out — that is a rule of the place it is going to, and the sender is the one whose parcel is destroyed.

The two that catch tourists

Antiques. Vietnam restricts the export of cultural property. Something sold to a visitor as antique may not be legal to take out of the country, and that is a legal problem rather than a delivery one. If an item is genuinely old, get documentation from the seller and check with Vietnamese customs first.

Food, seeds and plants. The rule that decides this is your own country’s, not Vietnam’s. Many destinations prohibit importing food, seeds, plant material and anything of animal origin, and such a parcel is normally destroyed rather than returned. Check before you pay to ship coffee home.

Questions

How do I send a parcel home from Vietnam?: Bring the items unsealed to a post office or courier counter, let them see and pack the contents, complete the customs declaration accurately item by item, and keep the receipt and tracking number. Photograph the contents before the box is closed and the sealed box afterwards — those photographs are what make a claim possible if it arrives damaged or does not arrive at all.
Can I post coffee, tea or food home from Vietnam?: Whether you can depends far more on the destination country than on Vietnam. Many countries restrict or prohibit importing food, seeds, plant material and anything of animal origin, and a parcel that breaks those rules is normally destroyed rather than returned. Check your own country's customs and biosecurity rules before you pay to ship anything edible, and declare it accurately — an undeclared food parcel is the version that gets destroyed and fined.
Can I ship antiques or old items out of Vietnam?: Be careful. Vietnam restricts the export of cultural property and antiquities, and something sold to a tourist as an antique may not be legal to take out of the country. If an item is genuinely old, ask the seller for documentation and check the position with Vietnamese customs before shipping. This is one of the few areas where getting it wrong is a legal problem rather than a delivery problem.
Should I under-declare the value to pay less duty?: No. The customs declaration is a legal document, under-declaring is the most common reason a parcel is held, and it caps your compensation if the parcel is lost — you cannot claim more than you declared. The saving is small and the downside is the whole value of the box.
Does EddyTrip ship parcels?: No. EddyTrip sells travel eSIMs and publishes a Phu Quoc guide; it does not offer courier or shipping services and does not recommend a carrier. This page explains how the process works so a traveller can deal with the post office or a courier themselves.

Carrier prices, transit times and prohibited-item lists change and differ by operator and destination, so none are published here. Get those from the carrier at the counter and from your own country’s customs authority. Ask Eddy if you want the process explained in your language.