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Discussion => Silk Road discussion => Topic started by: ttot on January 25, 2012, 03:59 am

Title: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: ttot on January 25, 2012, 03:59 am
let's say i get a lot of a certain type of mail.  we'll use travel magazines and travel-related solicitations for the sake of this example.  would it be ok to ask a seller to make the sender/return address sound like a travel agent company (if i know that they typically do return addys)?  i just wonder if having all these weird and random types of businesses from all over the place might throw a flag. 

Then I think the mailmain handles so many freaking pieces of mail and doesn't know who is in each unit that it might not matter.

What do you think?
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: blueangel on January 25, 2012, 04:11 am
sounds like a reasonable request but you'd be better asking the vendor ;)
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: Cgault on January 25, 2012, 06:46 pm
Several really good, really nice vendors  state that they will make the return address what you need. Mr. DDro, a few others, and I say, bravo.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: Christy Nugs on January 25, 2012, 08:51 pm
yea idk - i go to PO with so many packages at once it's unwise to be mixing shit up like that.
way safer to be just one entity.
I did do that for a client once but i had to hold his package out and take it by itself to a whole different town to mail.

U worry too much - No offense but thumbs down on that idea.

<3 ;
Christy
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: onestopshop on January 25, 2012, 09:55 pm
Sounds like a good idea...not to hard to implement and gives a little bit of extra security.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: LexusMiles on January 26, 2012, 12:40 am
Ask the vendor if he is open to the idea of a per request return address. Asking someone if they are open to an idea is really a win/win because the vendor can say no and you dont get offended.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: N2DEEP on January 26, 2012, 01:33 am
given the level of automation at the USPS, I would be concerned that shipping an item from say california, with a return address of say Ohio, might increase the potential for hands on scrutiny.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: Cgault on January 26, 2012, 07:40 am
No true, it happens all the time in business travel - when you send AV equipment from a hotel your meeting at, and the return is going to be your home office addr. 40 more examples of why....
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: subdude on February 08, 2012, 02:26 pm
I ask all vendors for tech or electronic return addresses and all have been happy to comply. Most vendors care about your security.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: ProudCannabian on February 08, 2012, 03:09 pm
I wonder if that old, "return to sender, address unknown" trick works...
where you cross out the "address" add the RTSAU phrase and put it in a mailbox.  Will they actually send it back to the "return" address?
It could be a whole different way of shipping if it did work.  Maybe.
Title: Re: Is it okay to ask a vendor...
Post by: TravellingWithoutMoving on February 08, 2012, 03:52 pm
- suggesting a return address ...could be ok....just means the seller has to come up with an appropriate name and address.....some sellers have are used to a routine
  of using "certain" details....