The Dispatch

September 24, 2026 · 4 min read

How to send files internationally

The file does not need a passport. The person does need a link that opens without a regional account, a specific app, or a VPN hobby.

Cartoon Rizal Park, a pink jeepney by the lawn

The file does not need a passport. The person does need a link that opens without a regional account, a specific app, or a VPN hobby.

Stop using the letter slot

Email will pretend to help and then bounce. A shared drive will succeed and then never leave. A transfer is the third thing: a link with a clock.

A link with a clock beats a folder with no ending.

Do this

A browser link is the international format. Say when it expires in their timezone if the window is short. SwissTransfer, WeTransfer, and Pink Jeepney are all just HTTPS. The romance of distance is not a technical problem anymore. The expiry is.

On Pink Jeepney: open the site, drop the files, write one sentence on the ticket if they need it, copy the link. Several files can come back down as one zip. Send the link in whatever thread you already have. The transfer does not need to become the relationship.

When this is the wrong tool

If the file must be unreadable to the host, use Wormhole or Tresorit Send. Pink Jeepney will expire, and it will burn after download if you ask. It will not hide the bytes from the machine that stored them. Know which problem you have.

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David Krug

Twenty-plus years of building cute little websites, and big ones, with an independent footprint. In the Philippines since 2016. Based in Manila, with two children and one amazing partner.

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