I see a small business startup opportunity for one-time use mailing addresses. It would be a physical store or a section within a physical store (CVS, Kinkos etc.) that let's you create an address online such as "John 1358432" and you can pay a $5 fee to pick up your anonymous package with the correct matching code. Luckily I have a multi-tenant office building where I can just label the package to a bogus unit number and pick it up when I get the delivery notification, but this Burner Mailbox would be a good solution for people buying crypto, gold or other high value merch. The news about Casa customers having their data stolen is freaky. Must innovate!
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Wouldn't the delivery company get worried that a lot of packages for different addresses are attached to the same phone number and received by the same guy?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox
FAANG - where good ideas go to die.
But that was just a parcel pickup. I'm talking anonymity too.
I read somewhere about how you can have your packages shipped to any post office by writing “General Delivery” under your name, and the address of the post office, and you don’t need a PO Box to do it. They hold the package at the post office for you / for a period of time / and you pick it up there. Perhaps you have to show them an ID when you pick it up. I’ve never tried it so I can’t elaborate on the process. Obviously the post office would be aware of your name and the return address listed on your packages, and your facial biometrics would be captured by the web of cameras installed in the post office, but I think this basically solves for the issue you’re asking about (?).
You know, I think you're right. I remember my parents saying they would ship things to general delivery in small towns while hiking through Virginia.
Nevertheless, I think the business opportunity exists!
But what about the cameras inside the place where you pick up the package?
Or do you walk in wearing a balaklava?
Oh, that wouldn't bother me, it would just that a hacker who got a customer database for Ledger or Coinkite wouldn't get any useful information. Still a big leap forward compared to shipping it to your house.
See what Arcade City (decentralized uber) is building. It would enable this. An individual who will receive your package for you then delivers it to wherever you want to meet. Sender doesn't know you, and if you meet somewhere, driver wouldn't know your identity / location. You could even request the driver do a dropoff where you never even meet.
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