USPS+4 musings: Everyone likes their drugs faster

On a related post you'll be seeing shortly regarding PO boxes as a physical address I was doing some research into the coding system USPS uses to handle mail.

First for US domestic buyers you should absolutely start using zip+4 for your address if you aren't already. It'll ensure the address you give the vendor is the best format to get your mail to you quickly and correctly. Hit up https://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action?mode=1&refresh=true to get yours.

For vendors if you have a buyer that has claimed no product have them provide their address again and verify it checks out with the same tool above. An example follows:

the buyer provided the address

28 MIRACLE MILE MIAMI, FL 33134

Using the above tool you'll get an immediate warning that USPS is probably going to return to sender as it's invalid. If you open up the mailing industry details you'll see that the DPV Confirmation Indicator is N meaning the address doesn't exist and can't be delivered to. The address they mean was

20 MIRACLE MILE MIAMI, FL 33134

which comes back with a DPV Confirmation Indicator of Y. Their fat-fingered fuckup is the reason why their mail didn't arrive. Even if they have received other packs at that address it was because the postman liked them enough to figure it out and isn't on you. I've thought about writing a script for vendors to automate label creation using prepaid debit cards and a mailings service API but haven't gotten around to it. I could see a prepaid card with a mailing service API over TOR to almost completely automate the shipping service while still keeping it anonymous.


Comments


[1 Points] al_eberia:

You don't need to screw around with prepaid cards, you can buy printable labels with bitcoin.


[1 Points] Clix828:

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What is this?


[1 Points] goiiihiii:

Neat idea, i sure as hell could use something like that, but the issue is with getting prepaid cards, who resells them for bitcoin? theres no one on lbc or any market i can find who does. And the whole api is dependent on someone going into a store to buy them and then resell?