Renting Post Office Boxes

[tubeway]

What are your guys' thoughts on renting post office boxes, especially when dealing with folks on ebay and forums?

[ryborg]

Why, does your mailman suck and leave boxes out in the rain or something? I always have a ton of packages coming and going and I've never had a problem, even though I live in a not-so-good neighborhood. Unless you're worried about shitty mail service and/or your stuff being stolen from your porch, I wouldn't worry about it.

[slidee]

I wouldn't recommend it, unless you have a specific need for one. Why pay an extra monthly/yearly fee when you don't need to?

[darkslime]

I live in a shit hole neighborhood and am always worried about packages being stolen, but they never have and I probably get 10-20 packages a week, so once one gets stolen I'll rent a PO box.

[tubeway]

Well, I was also looking at it from a privacy perspective -- not just whether packages could be stolen. I know a lot of the more serious collectors just have their stuff shipped to their work or some alternate address. Maybe so they don't get burglarized?

[rpepper9]

Were talking about video games here, not top secret government documents. What level of privacy are you looking for? Are you concerned that you are going to get a expensive item and someone is going to show up at your address as somewhere to steal it back?

[jahvybe]

I have a post office box. It is cheap and extremely secure.

Where I live all the mail boxes are grouped together down the street. And I was doing contract work when we moved here so I didn't want checks coming to a mail box down the street where some meth head could find it.

It helps that the Post Office is on my way home from work now, so I don't have to go out of my way to get my mail.