Re: Pricing Mojo, Integrating PGP, TAZ, and D.C. Cypherpunks
David Molnar wrote:
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Anonymous wrote:
than using your Visa card because only the seller learns your address rather than a centralized agency that knows all of your purchases. But it's hardly worth it.
A friend of mine was considering a business plan for physical remailer+ "infomediary" for a class project a year or two ago. Precisely to get around this problem. Sell learns the remailer's address. More than a few remailers and you can chain them, etc. etc.
Unfortunately U.S. postal regulations require identification when you rent a mail box, public or private. See http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/audio/private_mail_box.htm: Recent amendments to postal regulations will make it harder for criminals to victimize innocent consumers by using mail drops. Anyone renting a box from a commercial mail-receiving agency such as Mail Boxers, Etc., Parcel Post, and Postnet will be required to provide two forms of ID, one being a photo ID. It won't do much good to chain them if each one in the chain has your ID on file. Granted you can use fake ID but that would be breaking the law, raising the costs considerably.
Someone wrote:
Unfortunately U.S. postal regulations require identification when you rent a mail box, public or private....
It won't do much good to chain them if each one in the chain has your ID on file. Granted you can use fake ID but that would be breaking the law, raising the costs considerably.
US postal regs end at the US border. The rest of the world is full of mail drops, accommodation addresses and mail forwarding services. S a n d y
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 04:22:36PM -0800, Sandy Sandfort wrote:
US postal regs end at the US border. The rest of the world is full of mail drops, accommodation addresses and mail forwarding services.
Or, even inside the U.S., you could run an anon mail-receiving locker (insert $20 bill for two days, much like train station lockers) service if you only accepted FedEx/UPS/etc. letters and packages. Obviously it would cost more for users, but for sufficiently valuable cargo... -Declan
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