Dumbest question ever here, but...

[BlueIris]

could someone please tell me if the post office will let you send a package without a return address? Someone told me U.S. postal service doesn't let you do that anymore. Is that true? If it's against the new rules, or something--of course I would never, never do anything like that, anyone who might be reading this.

[lenidog]

1. Actually as far as I know its true

[A HERETIC I AM]

2. Make one up.

Honestly, they ARENT gonna check. Or use a hotel nearby, or even a gas station. Trust me, they WONT check it out to see if it is legit. Of course, if your package must be returned to you for whatever reason, well....you get the idea

A side note.......
When you check in to a hotel and they ask you for a license tag number from your car? Put "DLR - FLA' (Dealer Florida) or ANYTHING LIKE THAT if you dont want to give that info up. I have stayed in literally thousands of hotels and motels in my life and not one single time did they ever want to verify at the front desk whether or not i was lying to them regarding what vehicle i wa driving. A valet parking job in the hotel garage is a bit different, but for the front desk, screw em'!

another side note.......
want anonimity from the state? Use a rented mailbox as the address on your drivers license. I have done this for years. There is NO provision in any state drivers license regulations that stipulate you actually have to have a HOME in order to get a DL.
You can rent a mailbox for less than ten bucks a month almost anywhere and when the mailbox provider asks for a former address...well....you can make it up. They wont check and if they do, they cant do anything to you except deny your rental.

[BlueIris]

3. Thanks, man. Good info. nt.

[pamela]

10. Maryland wouldn't let me put a PO Box on my license.

About 10 years ago, I was living on a boat and didn't have a street address and the MVA wouldn't let me use a PO Box.

[A HERETIC I AM]

12. A "Post Office Box" is different from a rented mailbox........

If you rent a box from the US Post Office you are supposed to put "PO BOX so and so" but if you rent from one of those "mailboxes etc" such places, your address can read something like this

John Doe
22360 Tulip Lane
Suite 305
Bugtustle, TN 45678
Or, instead of "Suite" it can say

22360 Tulip Lane #305

just avoid using "APT". You arent breaking any law at all as long as you dont specify it as a home in the address and an apartment is a home. A "Suite" isnt, necessarily. But it is still a perfectly legal, legitimite address.

DON'T go to the Post office.

Go to one of the thousands of mom and pop places that do pak-n-ship and rent boxes.

Works perfectly, trust me.

totally anonymous

[pamela]

15. Good to know.

Thanks.

[pamela]

4. Use the shipping address as the return address.

edited to add: by the way, that's no where near the the stupidest question ever asked on DU.;)

[BlueIris]

5. OK, maybe THIS is the dumbest question ever, but

shipping address?

[LastKnight]

7. whoever youre sending it to, basically. nt

[pamela]

8. Use the same address for both.

If you are shipping it to Joe Schmoe PO Box 210, use that as the return address, too.

[A HERETIC I AM]

13. Known in the freight transportation biz as the "Consignee"

The person to receive the item is the "Consignee"

The sender is the "Shipper"

[LastKnight]

6. i dont think they would reject it... send something to yourself

without a return address... just to test it...

other than that i dont know, i would say that they dont need it, but after the anthrax stuff a few years ago they may have started to require it, i do not know.

[njdemocrat106]

9. Did the anthrax letters to Daschle, Leahy and Brokaw have a return address

:shrug:

[LastKnight]

11. thats why they changed it,

that is, if they did start requireing them... thats most likley why they did.

[charlie]

14. It's required

1.5.3 Required Use of Return Addresses

The sender's domestic return address must appear legibly on:

a. Mail of any class, when its return and/or an address correction service is requested.

b. Official mail.

c. Mail paid with precanceled stamps.

d. Matter bearing a company permit imprint.

e. Priority Mail.

f. Periodicals in envelopes or wrappers.

g. Package Services (except unendorsed Bound Printed Matter).

h. Registered Mail.

i. Insured mail.

j. Collect on delivery (COD) mail.

k. Certified Mail if a return receipt is requested.

l. Express Mail if a return receipt is requested. The return address on the Express Mail label meets this standard.

http://pe.usps.gov/text/DMM300/602.htm#1_5