Gifts You Can Send Internationally

Our virtual office party was coming up and none of us had gotten any gifts for any of the other employees yet. Now that almost everyone works remotely, employees have to find gifts that ship internationally, especially if they're employed by a large company where people work from all over the globe. I've only been to one virtual office party before, but the company had people draw names and ship gifts to that person, and then they opened the gift on a video call where the entire office staff could see. It was a lot of fun, but some people found it stressful to go shopping for a gift, wrap it, box it up, and then send it via a courier like USPS, FedEx, UPS, or DHL.

The company I worked for before that had the virtual party only had local employees and shipping gifts internationally wasn't required. Now, I work at an office that has locations in multiple different parts of the world. Even though I didn't know how to ship internationally yet, I knew I was going to have to learn and I needed to do it fast -- time was running out. I knew it took longer to ship gifts you can send internationally, so I had to send the gift early to make sure it got there in time.

At this point, I was still looking for ideas on what gifts would be appropriate to send my coworkers. I didn't know who I was buying for, so I needed a great gift that would be generally well-liked by any recipient. So I gathered my family and friends (not anyone who worked at the office with me!) and asked what they might like if they were going to be sent a gift internationally.

Soon, I learned that the person I was going to be gifting during the office party lived in the UK. I was excited because I'd never sent anything to the UK before, but I was also intimidated by the shipping process. I didn't think I would do a good job of buying a present from a store, wrapping it, and trying to get it through customs to the UK. On the suggestion of a friend, I started Googling things like "international gift delivery UK" and "gift baskets UK" to help me find ideas for premade, high quality gifts that I could send to my office party recipient without having to ship the gift myself.

After browsing dozens of Google listings for "international gift baskets UK," I actually found that shipping my own gift would be much more expensive than sending a gift basket. Surprisingly, sending a gift box from a company that specializes in international gift baskets is actually the cheapest international shipping from the UK. I knew I made the right decision when I got my bill and the shipping confirmation. It was so easy and I didn't have to go through all the effort of packaging the gift myself and trying to send it overseas.

My coworkers were assigned gift recipients from other parts of the world. Now, they needed my help for international gift ideas to send to places like Japan, Europe, Australia, and other countries where our company had headquarters and satellite offices. My cubicle mate needed an international gift delivery from Japan, while the employee across the hall was searching for the best gifts from Europe to send to the person assigned to her for the office party. I gave them information about where I had gotten my gifts and how easy it was to send them.

It was as simple as sending international gifts from Amazon -- after just a few clicks and entering my payment information, my international gift box was on its way to its recipient. Now, I just needed to wait (anxiously!) for the office party so I could see my coworker open their gift and the surprise on their face. I really enjoy gift giving, but sometimes get caught up in the logistics of it all, especially if I have to send a gift overseas to another country. International gift delivery makes it easy to give high-quality gifts in just a few minutes online.

What was going to be even more fun about this office party is that it was an online surprise gift delivery. The gift recipients didn't know what they were getting or that they were getting an international gift basket delivery at all! Our employers set up the gift exchange in such a way that the gifts being sent out would be a complete surprise.

Rumor has it that our international coworkers will soon be participating in online gift delivery in the USA for us, but that has yet to be confirmed. I think it would be a lot of fun to receive a gift from an online gift shop in Belgium, the UK, Germany, Canada, or another country outside the USA, especially if the gift baskets had snacks, treats, or small gifts that were unique to the country the person sending the gift is from. I waited as patiently as I could for the office party day to arrive and it seemed like it would never get here.

Weeks went by with no news and I began to wonder if we were still having the virtual get together at all. Then, it happened. The supervisor called us all into the conference room where the big video screen was displaying the faces of our overseas coworkers. I was so excited!

Much to our surprise, the gifts weren't being handed out to the coworkers on the virtual screen. In fact, they sort of looked excited to be giving gifts! It turns out that the surprise was on us and our overseas coworkers opted for international gift delivery in the USA. They had decided to send gifts online with same day delivery to get their gifts to us, all while we thought that we were getting gifts for them the whole time!

We spent the day opening gifts and laughing about how we were all tricked. Instead of a virtual party where we were giving gifts overseas to our global coworkers, they sent gifts to the USA with same day delivery! Whether you're sending birthday gifts to the USA, gifts for office parties, or gifts in general, same day delivery makes it super easy and flexible to get someone -- or more than one person -- a gift quickly and efficiently.

But now what were we going to do with our international gifts that were shipped from the USA to the UK and other areas of the world our coworkers resided in? Would we have another virtual party for those gifts?

We did end up having a second virtual office party so our overseas friends could see us open up our international gifts online. This was a lot of fun because we got to see the differences between what people from the US buy compared to what people from other countries buy at an international gift store. After seeing everyone's gifts and talking about how much we paid for shipping, etc., we decided that the best international gift delivery came from organizations designed to create and ship custom gifts.

The biggest surprise of the day was when we added an international birthday gift delivery to the office party! His birthday wasn't for another week, so he wasn't expecting to get anything related to his birthday at the office party. But we made it work with easy international gift delivery and there were so many people at the online office party that it was like we'd thrown a huge surprise party just for him.

The day ended with everyone full of happy memories and great gifts to take home and enjoy. The entire office is excited and wants to know when the next surprise virtual office party will be!

After our experiences with international gift delivery in Australia, the UK, USA, Europe, and more, we decided to approach our company about creating policies for how to send a gift internationally for a company event. We knew the company would benefit if they stopped sending gifts overseas by customs, but we just had to get our supervisor to see that this new way of doing company gifting would work better for them, especially if there were more virtual office parties where employees would be giving one another gifts.

Fortunately, we were able to tell our supervisor about the options we found for the cheapest way to send gifts overseas and they were impressed. They weren't sure they'd be able to find a better way to encourage employees to give each other high quality gifts without the expense and inconvenience of sending gifts overseas through customs.

Now, our virtual office parties are more fun than ever, because everyone gets to participate in giving and receiving hand-picked gifts shipped anywhere in the world. I can't wait until the next holiday or office party where I'll get an opportunity to shop again for a great gift that I can get sent worldwide with very little cost, time, and effort.