Personally, when I order something these days, it’s been on eBay. It kind of sucks though, and half of the packages still arrive in Amazon boxes anyway…?

Where do you liked to order stuff from, that’s not Amazon?

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    USA:

    Has anyone had success with general delivery to a post office?

    I move around a lot and rely on Amazon’s pickup network. The times I’ve tried to have a place do general delivery they’ve canceled my order.

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      I’ve used it with success, but you have to be specific with the addressing of your package (mainly just the “General Delivery” in the second address line). Details here.

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        I mean - I’ve gotten emails from the companies saying “we don’t do general deliveries”.

        I don’t know if they see it as high risk or fraudulent or what.

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          That’s unfortunate. You could probably press them to see why. It’s a completely valid way of shipping things, so I’d be curious why they won’t do it.

          I used general delivery while hiking for 5 months and had gear shipped ahead to the next town I’d be in. It’s possible the companies that I dealt with knew why someone like me needed general delivery and I got lucky.