Questions about P.O. Boxes

Hi, newbee here.

Anybody using P.O. Box for seed delivery? I am considering one having bad experiences with delivery to a street address.

I live in a Police State (SE US)

My concern is not a personal safety (can have P.O. Box set-up with real name, but fake address) but my concern is safety of shipped seeds.

So my question is:

WILL THE CUSTOMS LOOK MORE SUSPICIOUS at a letter/ package from Canada or Nederlands addressed to P.O Box as opposed addressed to street address with name or business address?

Would appreciate specific experiences or opinions in that matter.

some seedbanks wont ship to p.o boxes. As for how suspicious it looks id give it a 6 on a scale of 1-10

Buzerek said:

Hi, newbee here.

Anybody using P.O. Box for seed delivery? I am considering one having bad experiences with delivery to a street address.

I live in a Police State (SE US)

My concern is not a personal safety (can have P.O. Box set-up with real name, but fake address) but my concern is safety of shipped seeds.

So my question is:

WILL THE CUSTOMS LOOK MORE SUSPICIOUS at a letter/ package from Canada or Nederlands addressed to P.O Box as opposed addressed to street address with name or business address?

Would appreciate specific experiences or opinions in that matter.

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I believe the customs is universal at importing of the goods, once you reach local PO levels, I don't believe they routinely check packages tbh. I've shipped to PO box without any problems from attitude, the envelope I got wasn't different then any other goods I purchase on ebay, for instance the rockwool came in the same type of packaging as the EU shipment came in, just little different themes but same bubble envelope that hundreds of thousands of packages are sent in every day.

I personally don't believe they look at PO box as opposed to street address any differently, for one I was under assumption you needed ID and such to open a PO box so it had to be "real world ID", don't see what good a fake street address does if they know who you really are, secondly the seed transaction wouldn't be any less or more of a customs violation being shipped to PO box as opposed to street address, your package may pass through many post offices/sorting facilities on its route to a street address anyway, the customs check probably doesn't have much to do with address receiving as opposed to senders address/location, or known packaging techniques from confiscated parcels.

We can only speculate on how they detect some packages and others make it through, general assumption would be "random" checks, but obviously you could imagine targeted checks from known vendors like seedbanks ect. To say this is being shipped to PO box lets check it, makes little sense. They have alot of PO box addressed items, and the senders address, packing characteristics would be more of a clue then if its going to PO box or not.

Just use sea of seeds discrete shipping, they do a GOOD job of hiding them.

You can get a po box at some places that has a regular address, it just looks like an apartment or an office number.

honestly i use to worry but man just be smart about your order dont order 1000 worth of seeds, and the main thing ALWAYS! order a mug, tshirt i would do both if you can, then you are getting merchandise from them, it doesnt look as suspicious, when there is some weight and a object in package other then just seeds...good luck no matter which way you choose..ONE LOVE!

Thanks for great idea of ordering something else with beans. I am going to follow that!
For the record my lost shipments were my first seed order, my address never has any "flags" I know of, neither I received any custom notice about shipment being busted. I did my homework about breeders and banks, Lost order sent twice was from Peakseedsbc, (not peakseads.com who are crooks) Sannies seeds are on my list too. It is hard to find more respectful and reputable breeders than those 2. They both respond to emails in 24 hrs, and are both real persons and known breeders you can communicate with easy not some greedy pricey seedbank with fancy website and nonexistent, slow or absent customer service.

Also it is hard to find a bad word about their genetics and seed quality, so I am going to patronize those two for the time being.