Technically, the USPS doesn't require a return address, but with electronic mailing solutions like click-n-ship and PirateShip etc., you have to fill in something, so you can get away with filling in some nonsense. Or just use a city and a nickname, which is what I do (BJW @ Ketolishus, Railroad Island, MN, which is my neighborhood, and no house number means I could be any one of several hundred people who sent it). The only person who knows the address is the mail carrier who comes to pick up my packages and I don't care about that, I've lived here 13 years and have had the same guy all this time.

I'm not one of those uber-paranoid people who refuses to order anything online except via a DM or something, I just sometimes worry about my own safety as a over-50s single woman. Even though the owner of the property I rent has cameras everywhere, I have been harassed online before and it was not pretty. I don't like having to take my social media down for months at a time like I had to, after that. For the most part, I have repeat customers and if they know my address, it's because we exchange Christmas cards, which I LOVE to do (it's an older folks thing, you probably wouldn't understand).

I will say it's kind of annoying that people don't want to use my website to order. I have no trackers and I built it myself. Shopstr and Plebeian market have my jerky listings too, and I've gotten only 1 order this year (last year I had a few thru Shopstr, but there was issues with about 1 of every 3 orders--either something wrong with the transmission of data, such as what they ordered, their address being missing, or even what their npub was, so then after all that, I can't even reach them) and nostr DMs are ass (if we don't follow each other), I prefer doing business comms via email. And there's no such thing as 100% private email, even the services claiming to be the most secure are not perfect, don't get me started on that.