I'm wondering if any carriers provide a service whereby customers could print package labels that don't have the address printed on them, they only contain a number or barcode. I need a service that doesn't reveal the location of the business, but can still accept packages. Thanks

yes, i googled it

[Edited on July 24, 2009 at 5:27 PM. Reason : .]

7/24/2009 5:25:55 PM

Create a business specifically for shipping.

Blue Nile, an online company that sell jewelry, ships everything with a return address for another generically named company so that their packages aren't targeted for theft.

Added:
Wait, do you want to generate labels so that people can send things to you, but they won't know your name or address? If so, get a PO Box or something registered to a company name only used to receive packages.

[Edited on July 24, 2009 at 5:47 PM. Reason : ?]

7/24/2009 5:45:29 PM

Quote :

"Blue Nile, an online company that sell jewelry, ships everything with a return address for another generically named company so that their packages aren't targeted for theft."

So like instead of shipping a package with a return address of "Goldstein's Diamonds and Jewelry" it's like "Cecil's Cockring Emporium" so no one messes with the box?

7/24/2009 5:48:24 PM

or the opposite

if you're returning something to "Dave's Dildo Depot" you could change it to something non descript so the postman doesn't know you into that kinda thing

brilliant

7/24/2009 5:49:55 PM

^^^ Yeah, that's what we want, but we don't want them to know our location at all. Like, down to the state.

e.g. We have a customer in Iowa who needs to send us a package, he prints a shipping label that is just a barcode or a number and takes it to UPS without ever knowing where the package is going. UPS then has some software that interprets these lables and knows where they go. It'd be easy for them to implement, I just don't know if they offer it.

We don't want to set up a P.O. Box in the same area or it'd be relatively easy to figure out what we're doing.

Its not that we care if the postoffice knows, its that we care the customer knows.

[Edited on July 24, 2009 at 6:05 PM. Reason : .]

7/24/2009 6:04:26 PM

I don't know if they do that specifically, but you can have it sent to someplace and have them forward it...

7/24/2009 6:43:29 PM

buying weed on the internet?


I have seen an ad for a blind mail drop/forwarding service in Soldier of Fortune Magazine, get one at B&N

7/24/2009 6:59:18 PM

yeah mail forwarding is what you are looking for.

you create company, start an account with a mail forwarding service.

have your customers write the send address of the mail forwarding service with your business code.

all your mail is sent to you.

7/24/2009 7:01:24 PM

sounds like you don't want angry customers hunting you down for having sold them pieces of crap

7/25/2009 10:43:56 AM