PO Box not allowed?

[keyplyr]

I just moved into a new apartment which has very unsecured street side mail boxes. Anyone can (and does) open these unlocked old style mail boxes and remove mail.

The apartment building will not invest in new mail boxes and the US Postal Office says it's not their responsibility to buy them either. They did recommend that we all have our mail sent somewhere more secure (duh.) So I rented a PO Box and paid up for a year in advance so my affiliate checks would be safe.

None of my affiliates had a problem with sending monthly checks to a PO Box, except Google. Their address utility at the AdSence site won't even let me enter this address. Support is very uncooperative, even after I explained the situation. I have no other alternative.

Now they have sent a PIN and are holding back payments until I verify the PIN - of course I never got it!

Anyone else have this issue and what have you done about it? Thanks.

[edited by: keyplyr at 9:26 am (utc) on April 3, 2005]

[benevolent001]

My friend too had same problem he had to use address of his father for getting his google checks,you too can add address of some one close to you who you can trust or else try the direct Electronic fund transfer.

[keyplyr]

Thanks but I have no other person to receive mail for me and apparently the electronic fund transfer is not available to me according to AdSence support.

[benevolent001]

Since you are professor

Why dont you try getting mail at your college address

[keyplyr]

:) Retired

[winglian]

try entering your pobox as "P.O. B O X"
Works for me and i've been getting my checks in my pobox since last year

[benevolent001]

:) Retired

Earning more or less now then your college income?
Even then you must be missing those students ,their yellings,their teasers.....every thing they do which makes you to feel your self as child...and forget your age....Isnt it?

I am student 21 and do enjoy my student life in college and can't even think of spending one day without my friends...although i am gona pass out this fall so i thinking about time ahead when i wlll be without my friends...my professors....there scoldings...and many things more...am depressed these days for this

[Rodney]

You may want to switch from a PO BOX to a different type of private mail box.

Some companies will offer a private mailbox at their address (like the UPS Store or similar mailing companies).

Then your address will be 123 Main Street (or whatever that companies address is), with a Suite or PMB number.

These type of addresses are considered "physical" addresses.

[Jenstar]

I believe others have emailed Google, and had a PO box approved that way.

[incrediBILL]

I've seen P.O. Box #s also used like an apartment number at an address, unless Google knows the address is P.O. Boxes. For instance at a UPS Store (previously Mailboxes Etc.) someone I know used their address like this: "1234 MAIN #99" and 99 was his P.O. Box of course.

I would check and see if that addressing method will a) get delivered at your PO BOX and b) if Google will accept it.

[MikeNoLastName]

We have one of the mail box services like mentioned a couple posts back. It was originally set up because we were (back at that time) a home based business and in our city you had to have what was called a "license hang" location (someplace ZONED by the city as a business or industrial zone) to "hang" your business license. It's like a UPS store nowadays with locked mailboxes. the address is like : 123 main st suite #12-345. Where the suite #12 is actually the suite # of the store in the strip mall/plaza and the 345 is our particular lockbox #. The key to it is there is ALWAYS a physical person there during business hours to accept/sign for UPS/DHL packages. In over 10 years never had any problem with Google or anyone else delivering there, either regular OR UPS club checks! Real convenient when you have a client who insists on dropping something off at odd times like on his way home from work (it's open until 7pm).

[keyplyr]

Problem solved. My circumstances were reviewed and Google has allowed me to use my PO box.

[StephenBauer]

Technically the new postal code (about 5 years or so ago) instituted that USPS owned postal boxes need to use "P.O. BOX" and private mailboxes (aka UPS Store/Mailboxes Etc./...) need to use "PMB" for "Private Mail Box".

Technically they are not supposed to allow "#" or "Suite" but most do not enforce this rule to this day.

[jadebox]

Technically the new postal code (about 5 years or so ago) instituted that USPS owned postal boxes need to use "P.O. BOX" and private mailboxes (aka UPS Store/Mailboxes Etc./...) need to use "PMB" for "Private Mail Box".

The "PMB rule" (issued in 1999) was amended by the USPS in 2000 to require the use of either "#" or "PMB" in private mailbox addresses though I'm sure it's common for people to continue to use "Suite" or whatever.

-- Roger

[midlifecrisis]

I'm in a similar situation. I'm on the road almost all year and have set up a PO Box here in London to receive my checks. While I was able to specify the Box No. in my account details almost four weeks ago I'm still waiting for the stupid PIN to arrive. I'm also with CJ and Amazon and they had no problems with a PO Box address.

[StephenBauer]

jadebox,

Sweet. Glad to hear they did that. I wouldn't know as I got rid of my PMB a few years back.

Thanks for the update.