Query about using PO Box.
I was thinking about going to the post office tomorrow and opening a PO box to get back on ebay with. I've gotten eBay Stealth and all that. I was curious as to how someone could use a different address or suite number and have it sent to a PO box. Also, how can you use a different name and have it sent to the same PO box? I used to live in an apartment and had items I've bought returned to sender for having a different name with the same address and apartment number on them.
I guess I'd like to know how you: 1. Get a PO Box and have it under a different name? 2. Change PO Box to a Suite number or a different address? (I need an example of such address( should it be local?(isnt this illegal?))) 3.Use a different name on ebay and have mail sent to a PO Box with your real name? 4. Receive packages at a PO Box? 5. Accept mail at the Post Office with a different name/ ID?
Is this something that a Post Office may accept? Does anyone have any particular experiences in how they handled this situation or what they did? Is the results dependent on who's working/ what time of day it is? I was thinking about opening it and maybe using my same first name but replacing the last with the middle or maybe changing an i in my name to an L or switch a couple letters "by mistake" and have a relatively untraceable name(maybe?) and still having no qualms with postal workers showing my apparent 2 forms of ID, one with picture.
I used to buy and sell, mainly vintage clothes. I'd typically put most of what I made back into ebay anyways. I'd send out a good deal of shirts, pants or jackets I'd receive a good number myself. The items are usually in those soft envelopes and are pretty safe in travel but they could be damaged if they're crammed into a PO Box. Would they try to do this? I'd like to have a sturdy account that I can buy with and god forbid not have anything returned to sender or closed or limited within days.
Phew, I just had to be detailed as to not waste my nor anyone elses time who should tackle all the above :o
For a little background....
I had an account running on old, previously suspended info believe it or not. It had been a year or so since I had used ebay. I was selling and ran into trouble when they kept limiting my paypal account as I sold more and wanted me to ship out items before I received payments. Well it was getting a little hard to ship things out when I had no money and they wanted sellers fees on top of that. Then someone gave me a bad address in Puerto Rico and blamed it on me that their item was sitting in a Post Office for a week leaving them to believe I tried to scam them for 40 dollars for whatever reason. Like it's even worth it? You can't get away with it on there! Well this guy filed a complaint and it was enough to temporarily suspend me leading my other buyers with items in transit to believe I was scamming them and then a couple of sellers I bought from and never got payment to when they limited paypal filed complaints and it snowballed big time. All my buyers came through but the sellers I bought from already resold the items by the time I tried to pay and they didn't want to have anything to do with me.
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