Any of you #privacy lads use PO Boxes? I’m a noob on this topic
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It's a good way to protect your real address / identity from the sender, but the Post Office requires KYC so they will know it's you.
Trade offs!
And in certain circumstances, someone can request the info of a box holder from the USPS.
How so🧐, is it legal or do they have to social engineer like sim swapping
If you can show you are doing business with the box holder, you can just request it with a form.
You can do a similar thing at the UPS store. They give you a street address and uses a suite number instead of a box number.
Same tradeoff though, they know your real address but it's not revealed to the sender.
😮 thanks a lot gonna check this out, of course I would easily be able to get the mail that’s sent to this address suite number right?
Yeah, you have to stop in so it functions exactly same as a PO box. You get a key to your box as well as a key to access the store after hours.
You might be able to have the forward the mail to your actual address, but not certain on that
I do but more for so I can import stuff from ebay than for privacy.