People have no idea how much of a hassle shipping in EU is sometimes. Especially if you do everything manually to ensure your clients data security. Today we shipped two Coldcard Qs to a certain island that’s part of the EU. First there was a try with the manual DHL, didn’t work. DPD tried after, couldn’t ship. PostNL, worked. Now you need to select the extra large package if you want to send it insured (you want to, the package is valuable). Now the interesting part comes, a shipping wall drop off box system has been implemented recently. “This package cannot be dropped at this point” The nearest drop off point is a town further. We are located in Brabant, between the farmers. The next town is not just around the corner, it’s a drive… So we drive to the manned drop of point. Looking forward to seeing it arrive. People have no clue what goes behind a single package sometimes. Can’t wait for decentralized bitcoin drone delivery 😉

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When I worked at DHL one of my tasks was to resolve all complaints by senders and receivers in our city. Heard this stuff every day.

Have you looking into scheduled daily pickups for senders?

You need an account for that. Every shipment is linked to your account. An account can be accessed by a lot of people within the shipper. We manually ship without an account so there is no data trace to us as we see that as a risk. Therefore we can’t arrange pickups. We’ve asked for automatic deletion or enhanced security with shippers, but it’s simply not possible. Every shipment you make with your account is stored and linked for at least seven years. Accounts have no 2FA and are easily accessible, so we see it as the biggest risk in data gathering of bitcoiners.

Hmm gotcha. In the end the receive and return address are digitized and stored but there's no way around that with any shipper.