I've been moving around, and one of the issues I always found, whatever place I land, is ordering stuff and getting it delivered without disclosing personal information.
I've seen this #339626 posted today, and it made me want to ask stashers if they have any better options than international couriers or traditional post service to send or receive stuff. I am aware that weight and size do matter. It would be interesting to have different methods for different items.
Are there P2P services available? Anon? that can, under all circumstances, ensure the delivery of a tangible item to a specific location? abroad? What if I wanted something from a local manufacturer in, let's say, Nicaragua instead of The amazon?
If not a service like SovStack, is there perhaps a methodology to ship stuff this way?
How are you stasher shipping or receiving items anonymously?
I'm not aware of any. I would be glad to hear if there were other solutions. Mail is very not private honestly. I remember Sam Bent mentioned something like the post office logs and retains the logs for all the mail that goes to you with to, from, and the names and addresses of both. Most of what you want to do here will cost extra and/or shift trust instead of eliminate it not dissimilar to using a VPN. Welcome to the dystopia.
For proxy shipping I've tried and liked anonshop.app. He'll do any site not just amazon, I've bought stuff off of eBay and vendor sites through him too.
List of proxy shippers on monerica:
https://monerica.com/businesses/proxy-shopping
shopinbit
i am interested in this too. tried to find something and it seems like nothing exists right now.that is a real pain point. someone said yesterday to listen to people’s pain points and solve them. this feels like a good monero business opportunity.
This is a challenge many people face; if someone were capable of establishing a logistics network that offered maximum privacy protection (strictly for legal goods, of course), it would be incredibly lucrative—surpassing the profit margins of many black- and grey-market industries. In reality, however, this is extremely difficult, as such a network would face global opposition and containment. The reason is that, once established, it would inevitably become entangled with black- and grey-market activities.
It does not need to be, and I'm looking for an alternative to deal with white and grey market items. nothing illegal. I think networks already exist, some p2p. The issue there is having the "transport" to accept crypto as payment.
I think what @b is saying is that if you operate such a logistics network it would inevitably start to be used by customers who would start using it to ship illegal goods. If you provide good privacy, you won't be able to prevent this for the most part. Maybe if you have a well trained drug dog and an Xray machine you can do something, but that's about it (as far as I can think of). Any organization like that would likely be vulnerable to a RICO case too (extreme guilt by association). It's high risk for low margins considering how cheap shipping through the white market is. There's a reason DNMs use USPS versus building out such a network. Fun fact, Lysander Spooner did this and out competed the post office for a long time until he got shut down by the gov.
All in all, not saying it's an impossible problem to solve, but it's a hard one.