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What are your preferred alternatives to Amazon?
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2025
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I've used it with success, but you have to be specific with the addressing of your package (mainly just the "General Delivery" in the second address line). Details here.
I mean - I’ve gotten emails from the companies saying “we don’t do general deliveries”.
I don’t know if they see it as high risk or fraudulent or what.
That's unfortunate. You could probably press them to see why. It's a completely valid way of shipping things, so I'd be curious why they won't do it.
I used general delivery while hiking for 5 months and had gear shipped ahead to the next town I'd be in. It's possible the companies that I dealt with knew why someone like me needed general delivery and I got lucky.