Susi (not her real name) is a middle-aged Thai woman who regularly travels to Australia to visit her two children studying here. Because she travels light, in recent years she began accepting requests to deliver packages to make a little extra money on each trip. Such delivery requests — referred to as รับหิ้วของ, pronounced rab-hiu-khong and meaning ‘carrying goods’ — are increasingly common on Thai community social media groups.
“Earlier in 2025, I posted in a Thai community social media group in Brisbane saying I could carry items for people because I still had spare baggage allowance,” Susi said. “I’d done it twice before and never had any problems.”
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