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Re: po boxes
 

yea within us no issue with po box if international coming into us and canada they put in on hold most of the time.

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1st DHL doesnt officially operate within the US, they left years ago, and that hold is called customs. Every package coming from overseas goes into customs. But USPS PO Boxes still only accept packages from other countries postal system only, not from private companies.

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custom hold for dhl is if your tracking shows shipment on hold in Cincinnati which is where all international parcels for dhl land for onward shipment into different states.If I ship Po box it will shows shipment on hold in the customer's city and then I usually ask them for an alternate address and update it with dhl online after which delivery is within 24 to 48 hours or else they call themselves with the tracking.custom hold is in Cincinnati not in customer's city from my experience.Plus whenever I have PO box i use ups or fedex instead .I usually ship 25 -30 parcels into US everyday and ups never gives issues for po box.ship much more everyday into US with dhl but they only do normal addresses and refuse po box

Re: po boxes
 

Exactly, nobody delivers to Post Office Boxes in the US for international except EMS.

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I don't know where you guys are with prices like 12 bucks a month for UPS mailbox. Here in NYC it cost $50 a month! and there is limit on how many names you can add too!!!

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If you reread on what you said, NYC, you will get the reason why PO Boxes in NYC are so expensive. Everything is NYC is expensive. I once worked in lower Manhattan, in the financial district, the cheapest PO Bx there was $36/month.
Some UPS rentals are $7-8/month is the mid east small towns.

And every UPS store has a limit on how many names you can put on. And every name has to have to ID to even be put on.

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Supply and demand issue. There are some Mail Box centers in my area way out in the cuts that are much cheaper than in the larger population base. As far as names on the Box. Doesn't matter if it P.O. Box or a UPS box or something similar. I always use a business name. Any returns, etc. I don't care how many accounts I run. I always have a business name that they send packages back to. When I ship the packages I always use that name and addy as well. Never put stealth info on a package. Ever.

Even if that means blacking out my return address on USPS labels and taping a good address box with a biz name. Been doing this for 5+ years. Have not had an issue.

Re: po boxes
 

Good going, not enough people do this.

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That's not true. I have a PO Box in financial district at 90 church st and I pay $128 for 13 months. A block away there is a UPS store and they charge $600 a year! Given that there is some things that you can do with UPS mailbox that you cannot do with PO Boxes that can justify the high price:)

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Whats not the true?

The price that I quoted was back in 2008. The price that I said was the cheapest I was able to get or the things that I wanted the mail box for. I'm sure there were cheaper one but they where further.

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I rent (4) P.O. Box's at a Check Cashing places (Ma and Pa Location) and I pay $10/Month and Yes they accept all Mail/packages from EMS, DHL, FedEx, UPS, HK Express, etc.

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Thats not a Post Office Box then. It is a mail box like at a UPS Store or mom and pop place. Post Office Boxes are only issued by USPS at their locations.

PO Box = Post Office Box
PMB= Private Mail Box

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90 church st street is right next to the new World Trade center, it doesn't get closer then that. This location is like New York Strip dry aged steak and I don't believe that prices were higher in 2008 then they are now in 2014. Unless you had one of those HUGE boxes, mine is a small one.

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I use those too for some US operations - less formal that the USPS boxes