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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
Because of b.s. like that I rented a private po.box about twelve years ago. It's not usps, so I don't run into the"won't ship to p.o. boxes" nonsense. A shipper thinks it's an apartment. I can't remember the last time anything went missing. A hundred bucks a year, great peace of mind. They've also forwarded select pieces of mail to me when I traveled for work all of the time
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I do the same thing. I have two private PO boxes, each with their own credit card billing addresses attached. This solves three problems I've encountered; companies that won't ship outside the US (these days 75% of what Amazon sells can't be shipped outside the US,) companies who insist that the billing and shipping addresses be the same, and third, a permanent US address for the banks. Both boxes forward to me anywhere in the world, both remove all third class bulk mail, both are set up to forward just once a month (99.9% of my mail isn't time sensitive,) and one of them will even, upon my instructions, open packages and remove invoices, consolidate and repack, and then forward, saving me a fortune in Customs import duties. When a time-sensitive letter is due, such as my US driving license renewal, I just tell that particular box company to forward daily as mail arrives. Same when I order something that I want quickly. I've been using both box companies for the past 25 years, and while one of them is a bit 'dense' (a chain mail forwarder,) the other is privately owned, sharp as a tack and follows instruction perfectly!
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