Dude, damn near everyone I know has a PO box. Aside from that, some small towns don't even have delivery for regular mail, you HAVE to have a po box.

Most sponsors are smart, yes, names that are not of the "Granny's Fist Fucking Bucks" sort. But some aren't so smart. Then there is the issue of who the address gets out to and what they will send to you. Even with the vaguest name it is fairly simple for anyone over twelve to type the company name appearing on the outside of the check in Google and see what appears. Then there is the accidental delivery to your neighbor problem. And the legal and tax issues pertaining to seperation of business and personal assets.

For me, I won't be using my home address for anything adult (or even business - I do mainstream too) related and if that means avoiding a sponsor, so be it. I find the rule to be stupid, of course others are free to disagree with me. No problem, you know? Have a happy new year. :)

from adultplatinum

Payments will be in the form of a check in US dollars payable to you, as identified in your application, and will be mailed to the street address indicated in your application (we will not mail to P.O. Boxes!!).



Many sponsors deny to send payments to PO Boxes. If you didn't know that then probably you never read TOS. It's not rare.

I don't say that there are no legit uses of them and that no legit webmasters can receive payments there, but lack of physical address is an alert sign for many sponsors due to past bad experiences.

ok i didnt know that, it doesnt happen where i live. All i'm saying is that it's not an extreme case. There's no affiliate program i have joined (out of thousands) that i havent read their TOS, that's why I know is common.

Also there are ways to get around the "po box" issue soul_rebel. There are plenty of services in the US that offer to accept mail and give you a "suite #."

But to just say that you can't see why a "legitimate" company or webmaster uses a p.o. box is to lump a lot of "legitimate" companies in with scammers.

There are so many legitimate concerns for not accepting business related mail at your house.

One that hasn't even been addressed here is zoning issues. In some places you are not supposed to run a business out of your house regardless of what type it is...and if you do there are so many license qualifications you have to meet.

Having a po box of mail pick up is also just another layer of protection in order to seperate personal property from business property when you don't have a seperate office.

Upon lawyers advice I was instructed to set up my business this way.

Mail in one section of town, my business license in a "license hang" in another part of town...basically the idea is to keep any law enforcement or government agents *city, county, federal* from entering my residence.

They have NO reason to visit me here..and if I produced content rent a small office just to maintain 2557 documents...just layers of protection from a variety of prying eyes.

ok that was a bit rushed, but was coming from what it happens in my country. PO BOXes belong to those that run get rich schemes, pyramids or scams. I didn't know they were common in other countries. There was no intention.

np man...my comment above was a bit rushed to :)

I use one so that when the kids are out at night knocking down peoples mail boxes I dont have to worry about going out early to put it back up before the mail runs. So does this mean I am not a "legit webmaster"?

Nbritt

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you're right, I cancel much larger accounts than that for lying about us publicly.
this is more of a make fun fun of his little traffic thing.

why don't you open a program and teach us all how to treat affiliates.:1orglaugh

50 stupid rules

with this post office box thingy, here is a little trick.

The post office is on a street, lets call is blahblah street.

The post office also has a street number on that street, say 42 blahblah street.

you have a post office box - PO Box 172

If you give the address:
172 / 42 Blahblah street

dont mention the fucking PO Box in your address - then anything delivered to that address goes to the Post office, who will put it in your PO box

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