chaos.

Hiya,

I've just looked at royal mails site and its quite a reasonal price to rent a post office box.

I think its a better idea to stay reasonably anonymous for traiding on the net, does a 'PO box' address provide this?

Oh and I say this from previous expirience, dealing with sh!tty buyers etc. I'd rather be able to cut the strings and stay safe.........




[Edited by chaos. - 1/13/2004 11:06:32 PM]

gareth123

No it does not. When mail is delivered to a P.O. box the Royal Mail automatically sends a postcard with the box owner's home address to the mail sender. They do this to speed up future communications between the two.

boxst

Gareth:

Are you sure? I've sent things to a PO Box before, and certainly have not had any correspondence back from the Post Office.

Steve.

gareth123

I should clarify that the Royal Mail only send out the little postcards if you're scamming people on eBay and hiding behind a P.O. box - they have an office in Mount Pleasant dedicated to it.

milo

i thought that you had to register a po box to a home address, and that if anyone wanted to know the registered owner of a po box, royal mail are obliged to tell u.

in other words, u can't hide behind a po box.

chiark

You can request the address associated with a PO Box. No security whatsoever.

Oh dear Chaos, you're not really much up on this anonymity are you?

fatherpierre

You can buy business addresses, Chaos.

Numptie

Link removed

[Edited by Redkop - 1/14/2004 1:48:48 PM]

Numptie

OK, just to be clear on what I did / posted ...

• Looked at Chaos' profile
• Noticed that his AOL email address contained what looked like a surname
• Plugged this surname into the free service on 192.com with the location as Manchester
• Posted a link to the search results (there were three)

... not that naughty really - but hey, whatever

330uk

why not get a mailbox from 'mailboxes' Its much easier and safer than royal mail

chaos.

Yeh I saw it as well.

You should put the link back, the closest adderess was at least 8 post cods away. That probably = at least 10 miles

Numptie

what would scooby do

Still fishy response though

ajm

the net closes on chaos....

Numptie

I was merely attempting to show that it is possible to trace anyone on the web without too much difficulty.

I think I've demonstrated my point - cod erat demonstrandum

chaos.

well from what I saw, you've just traced Mr. Micky Mouse or Sir Joe Blogges, as far as Im concerned.

If you can get my home address, theres a coconut in it for ya, OK?

Numptie

No chaos, it was a joke ... look at the second paragragh ... on second thoughts, never mind

chiark

I would say that if anyone manages to deliver a coconut to Chaos at home then there's a beer in it for them, but that would be unbecoming behaviour of a moderator so I wont.

Two parrots on a perch. One turns to the other and says "can you smell fish?"

Markus

don't smell fish, just smell a complete joker.

Did think he'd gone the way of Luke (not that he's actually gone yet ) guess it was just wishful thinking on my part.

NACRO

quote: "was merely attempting to show that it is possible to trace anyone on the web without too much difficulty"


Trace me then, I'll give you a crisp £10 note if you get my details.

Numptie

Read the second paragraph