I've seen some conflicting information around about this so I wanted to ask the board.
in your opinion, is it safer for a vendor to use stamps on their priority mail, or one of those sites where you buy postage with btc?
it seems to me that each method has drawbacks, e.g. priority mail with those $7 stamps looks suspicious and the vendor would have to buy metric fuckloads of stamps which may draw attention to them
but on the flip side buying a label with btc is clearly suspicious as well. why would you need to do that if youre not breaking the law? so in theory a postage site could be an excellent honeypot, or at the very least they could potentially alert the USPS that somebody bought a large number of labels with btc and so on and so forth.
the reason Im asking is because I've gotten a few packs recently that used priority mail stamps and my first reaction was to be alarmed that they would do that.
I would like to know your opinions on the matter because I'd rather order from vendors using btc paid postage if that's determined to be safer.
thanks
As a vendor I have always thought that paying for shipping with bitcoin and doing labels that way is really fucking selfish because it is more convenient for the vendor (they don't have to go on stamp runs all the time), but it accomplishes this at the expense of the buyer's OPSEC (nobody wants a bunch of shit being mailed to their house when the postage was paid for with bitcoin.) This is why I used stamps on every single one of several thousand orders. And you know what, every single pack made it. Every last one.
So suck it Stampnik vendors.
But every time I bring this up, other vendors (the ones who vastly prefer their own safety and convenience so much that they dismiss their customers' OPSEC) chew my damn head off like I'm talking shit on who they are at the core of their fucking soul, rather than what I'm actually doing, which is just ripping on them for making shitty choices and being selfish.