5 Features a top maildrop / mail forwarding service should have:
- Privacy oriented. Don’t collect more information than necessary. Don’t give our information except if served a court order
- Reasonably priced and no opaque pricing
- Stable. The address should not suddenly change to a different location. Yes, this happens.
- Not obviously a mailbox. Nothing raised more flags than “PO Box, Mailbox, Receiving service” in your address
- If you are lucky, you may be even able to receive your bank statements there. If problems occur, try to give a residential address and the mailbox as a mailing address
Many sites recommend maildrops and mail forwarding services they have never used themselves. A quick google and copy and paste and you have a list. We give you here a few hand selected mail drops that are reliable.
USA
Simple. There is nothing better than SBI Mail Only disadvantage: Florida has started to collect taxes for online orders.
New Zealand
Pirvate Box has been around a long time and always also had a reputation for privacy.
Germany
Simple. By far the best mailbox is mailboxde.com
Recommended by some of our competitors: BPM-Lux. Comparably expensive, went to a change of ownership as far as we know. Not recommended by us.
Honorably mention: Grenzpaket. Mainly for people living in Switzerland. There are some advantages, since not all shops ship to non-EU Switzerland.
Other Countries in Demand
China TipTrans offers at least some kind of forwarding. We have no personal experience with this provider. There are many mail/package forwarders in Japan (e.g. Blackship), feel free to google.
In some countries, it is notorious hard to find a reliable mailbox / mail forwarding provider that may also receive bank mail etc. The following countries come to mind:
China, Hong Kong, Panama, Brazil. Very difficult to find a reliable service there. And no, the Mailboxes Etc in Panama and Brazil stores are not really an option. If you know any goo d mail forwarding providers that are privacy-oriented, reasonable priced, don’t have “Mailbox, PO BOX” or something in their mail receiving address and have a decent online mail management software, please contact us.
World Wide
Clevver tries to open maildrops in many jurisdictions in the world. And there are reasons why you should NOT use them.
Ghostaddress in Wyoming
As recommended by JJ Luna in “How to be invisible. See in our shop.