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Discussion => Shipping => Topic started by: DaveyBoySmith888 on April 28, 2012, 11:28 pm
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Hey Guys,
I'm new to SR and still learning the ropes. I placed an order earlier this week and gave a fake name with my real address. What do you think the chances are of my package getting lost or delivered elsewhere?
Thanks for your help and guidance!
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IMO i think you've got a pretty good chance of getting your stuff, It could be a cousin or long time mate staying with you for an extended period and they're getting mail sent to yours.
Might be an idea next time, send an empty letter to your fake name, see if you can get mail to yourself using your pseudonym!
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This is all i've been doing - sending to my real address with a fake name.
I bit the bullet and did it without testing, and it's successful. I would imagine that if you live in a block of units/apartments that having a fake name would be far less questionable than if you are paying off your mortgage in a house for eg. People move in and out of apartment blocks so regularly that I bet the postman can't begin to question the legitimacy of the names on envelopes.
Just my two cents! Helps me sleep better at night! lol
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Try a Benzo to sleep mate, eating coins can be bad for your digestion!!!
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Haha, I know I am paranoid. However, it was shipped out from the West Coast on Monday, do you think it should have arrived to the Northeast by now?
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Couldn't give you any advice on US shipping mate, I'm on Neptune!
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Couldn't give you any advice on US shipping mate, I'm on Neptune!
Long live Pluto!!!
You Neptunians will pay for spearheading the committee to renounce Pluto's planethood!!!
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Couldn't give you any advice on US shipping mate, I'm on Neptune!
Long live Pluto!!!
You Neptunians will pay for spearheading the committee to renounce Pluto's planethood!!!
Them's fighting words Pluto Pup!
I'm now in the process of calibrating my proton-energy, laser-guided, atomic-devastating, lunch-making ultra-nasty-phaser... Pluto is about to be gone for good!!!
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I've always recommended (for those that don't wanna use granmas address 'cos you couldn't bear the thought of her being questioned by customs) using the name of a previous tenant of your address. Often some mail still comes through with their name anyway and so even the postman is used to seeing mail with that name go to your address.... and if LE does come a'knockin then it's an even better defence than a random name.
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I've always recommended (for those that don't wanna use granmas address 'cos you couldn't bear the thought of her being questioned by customs) using the name of a previous tenant of your address. Often some mail still comes through with their name anyway and so even the postman is used to seeing mail with that name go to your address.... and if LE does come a'knockin then it's an even better defence than a random name.
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I'm sorry, but how does the name on a parcel have ANYTHING to do with one's defense in a court of law?
Someone printing your name on an address label is not proof of your knowledge or intent to receive or possess the contents of a parcel...
Everyone, unless they have specific knowledge that it's safe for their situation, should use their REAL NAME or whatever name they usually receive mail under. The USPS employees are not stupid and will spot patterns and oddities and be curious about them. Previous tenants only receive weird bulk rate business class mail with pre-sort postage on them. They do not receive regular bubble envelopes or packages in the mail anymore... and the guy that has been delivering the mail since before you moved in; he noticed when you moved in and could see from the transition from all sorts of mail to just sparse business class junk mail that the previous tenant moved out. If the previous tenant starts getting SR mail it's going to look odd to even the least curious postal carrier.
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I'm sorry, but how does the name on a parcel have ANYTHING to do with one's defense in a court of law?
Someone printing your name on an address label is not proof of your knowledge or intent to receive or possess the contents of a parcel...
Everyone, unless they have specific knowledge that it's safe for their situation, should use their REAL NAME or whatever name they usually receive mail under. The USPS employees are not stupid and will spot patterns and oddities and be curious about them. Previous tenants only receive weird bulk rate business class mail with pre-sort postage on them. They do not receive regular bubble envelopes or packages in the mail anymore... and the guy that has been delivering the mail since before you moved in; he noticed when you moved in and could see from the transition from all sorts of mail to just sparse business class junk mail that the previous tenant moved out. If the previous tenant starts getting SR mail it's going to look odd to even the least curious postal carrier.
+1...read the forums, OP..use your real name
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Sorry if that doesn't help you guys. Maybe things are different here in NZ. Our posties are suspicious as. If there is mail going to an address and they have never seen that name at that address, they may not deliver.
I see it like this, you may have deniability (claim you had nothing to do with sending the package) but if you look at it from LE perspective, if it's to a name that existed at that address then your claim is at least a little more believable. Here in NZ customs come knocking to have a "chat" with you (try to make you incriminate yourself) rather than charging in to search the place.
So as some of you have commented, this may be a waste of time in other countries, but here in NZ it has saved a friend of mine a lot of trouble when he ordered seeds from multiple companies in the Netherlands and got a knock.
The conversation went more like this "No that's not me, but yes I get mail for him quite regularly... here is a big pile of it.. And yes I'll be happy to let you know if he comes past to pick up his mail".
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Have you heard the expression, "Hiding in Plain Sight"?
Don't create suspicion, use your real name.
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^ always do the opposite to him, he actually comes pretty handy then.