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 Posted 12/19/2022  1:45 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add kbbpll to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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But that doesn't get around the problem of ebay sellers ignoring the PO box, using couriers and shipping to the street address
I don't get this. Why is your street address still visible to a seller? Is there some requirement that it has to be a street address, with the seller or ebay?

Not that a PO Box is an absolute solution either - I've had mail for another box appear in mine, so my mail could also have gone into the wrong box. This in not an error USPS should make, ever, but they do. The woman at the counter sighed when I brought it to her attention, giving me the impression it wasn't the first time, and probably was aware of a careless employee. Similarly, once a month or two we were getting mail for someone else in our regular mailbox - same number, different street a few blocks over, or same street but wrong number. My wife's 401k statement was delivered to someone else first (I could tell from what was written on the envelope), and that set me off. Who wants some stranger knowing how much money you have? Instead of doing the right thing, they could just open it and you'd never know. I put a terse note in the mailbox for the carrier and it hasn't happened since then, but still.

To answer a question above, coins from Heritage and GC have all come USPS.
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Many sellers refuse to ship to a PO Box kbbpll. International couriers want a street address to deliver to. For others (like UPS), I'm not sure why, but many are expicit about it.

Here's an explanation from Quora

"The problem with shipping to a PO box for the seller is that there is no verifiable residential address, unless there is a residential address and PO Box together as part of the address. It is more difficult to prove delivery when an item goes to a PO Box. A debit or credit card is "tied to" your residential address."

The trick of getting couriers to deliver to a PO Box via the post office street address and a unit number is interesting, and worth looking in to.
"Two minutes ago I would have sold my chances for a tired dime." Fred Astaire
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