RE: [Sheflug] total irrelevence - PO Boxes?

["David Morris" <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> [mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk]On Behalf Of James Bruce
> Sent: 08 November 2001 15:37
> To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
> Subject: [Sheflug] total irrelevence - PO Boxes?
>
>
> im sorry this has absolutely nothing else to do with linux,
> but ive asked
> everyone esle i know and no one knows the actual answer to this...
> What exactly is a Po Box?
>
> I know how to get one, and i know how much it costs, but im
> not sure what
> one is. Basically, i want somewhere i can give out as an
> address without
> them being able to track who i am. Is a PO Box just a
> remailing service in
> which case its useless.... or is it actually a box somewhere
> that i can go
> and collect mail from?


There are a number of alternatives. When I was Membership Sec of the
Sheffield Steelers Supporters Club, we had a PO Box. It was a tin box in the
wall in the local sorting office. I went regularly and emptied it. PO Boxes
can also, for an additional charge, be redirected to a designated address,
so you could have one pointing at your home (a bit like a mail alias really
(in a valiant attempt to get this on-topic)).


--
David Morris
IT Manager, ALLVAC Ltd, Sheffield, UK
work: david [at] allvac.co.uk
home: david [at] brassedoff.net   http://www.davidm.demon.co.uk
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