posted on February 1, 2002 06:56:44 PM new
Ok, this sounds really dumb, but I have to ask. I get a lot of paypal or billpoint payments that the address is listed like this:
John Doe
PO Box 123
456 Widget Lane
Your Town, NY. 12345.
So, this is exactly how I write the address.
I received a payment today which said ship to the PO Box not my home address. So I left out the address part and just put the PO Box and the city and state.
Now, my question is if people put a PO Box and a street address are those 2 different places and I'm supposed to pick one? I always just thought the street address was where the post office was located.
posted on February 1, 2002 07:05:32 PM new
I believe the post office reads the address from the last line working up. If this is the case, then it would be delivered to whichever address was on the second to the last line, right?
posted on February 1, 2002 07:12:53 PM new
Are there some larger cities that use both addresses to find a PO Box or should I always email the person and ask them where they'd like it sent.
Doesn't anyone else find this in their payments?
posted on February 1, 2002 07:26:09 PM new
Paypal has "confirmed" and "unconfirmed" addresses. My confirmed address is not my shipping address which is a PO Box. Confirmed addresses tend to be home addresses where people have their credit card bills sent to. I don't know if this helps. I just know that if I get a Paypal pay with a PO Box that includes a Paypal warning: This is not a confirmed adress--I don't sweat it. I understand that that is where I'm intended to ship. FWIW.
posted on February 1, 2002 07:28:36 PM new
They usually give you both the street and the PO Box number depending on how you are sending it (they may not know). You are covered both ways this way. If the PO number is first, the PO will deliver to that addy..however, if you send UPS, the UPS deliveryman has a street addy to take it too, since they don't deliver to PO boxes.
I just tried to do a sample Delivery Confirmation slip, and just as I thought..if I put in both addy's, and put the PO second, the PO switches it so it is first..and that's where they'll deliver it to.
posted on February 2, 2002 03:02:47 AM new
I always supposed that the street address included with the PO box number was the address where the post office box was at. Many larger cities have several post offices.
I try to place all addresses in the zip code finder at the USPS website:
to see if they are legit addresses. I have on many occassions received the "not in our database for Lard Can, TN" type of message. These addresses tend to be in the order of addresses like "Highway 542 and Maple Rd" or "County Rd 13 W 194 Junction" type of thing. I just have to send them to their stated address ( with Delivery Confirmation ). The deeper in the woods that you go the odder the addresses that you will find.
