Rakhi and Raksha Bandhan gifts
Rakhis, thalis and gift sets delivered to the USA, Canada, the UAE and Australia, with duties paid at checkout so nothing is collected on delivery.
Available in the United States. No customs at your door.
Raksha Bandhan is the occasion people most often leave too late, because a rakhi is small and it feels like it should arrive quickly. It will not: a tracked parcel from India takes 10 to 15 business days regardless of how little it weighs, so ordering three to four weeks ahead is the difference between arriving on the day and arriving after it.
Rakhis are light and cheap to send, which makes this one of the few cases where adding a few more items barely changes the shipping. Sending a thali, sweets-safe dry gifting or a small piece of jewellery alongside usually costs less than sending two parcels later.
If your brother or sister is also in the US, have the parcel come to you and post it on domestically rather than trying to land an international delivery on an exact date. Transit from India is 10 to 15 business days and the domestic leg is one to three, so ordering about four weeks out puts the rakhi in your hands with a week in reserve and takes the guessing out of the date entirely.
Questions people ask
- How early should I order rakhi?
- Three to four weeks before. A rakhi weighs almost nothing, but transit time is the same 10 to 15 business days as anything else.
- Can you send sweets with it?
- No. Fresh sweets and mithai have too short a shelf life to survive export and we do not list them.
- Should I ship it to my sibling directly or to myself?
- If you are both in the US, to yourself. Transit from India is 10 to 15 business days and domestic post is one to three, so ordering four weeks out gets the rakhi into your hands with room to send it on, and you get to know it arrived.