This is only tangentially related to dolls because I’m trying to ship a doll overseas & i know this is a long shot but i’m going kinda crazy here and I don’t know where else to ask OTL
I’m trying to send a package to ms brooke of xcanadensis fame but the postal services hate me badly so i’m trying to figure out an alternative. I was originally gonna mail it regularly through Poste Italiane (italian state owned postal company) because that’s what i’ve been doing to send packages to my boyfriend for a couple years now with little trouble, but for this one they gave me trouble due to the address being a PO box address because quote,
“In countries where delivery to a post office box is possible, it is MANDATORY to indicate on all transport documents (waybill and any supplementary documentation) the complete address of the destination (street, number telephone number and possible e-mail address if available), in order to be able to “notify” the recipient of the arrival of the shipment and subsequent delivery of the shipment to a physical address. Shipments addressed to “PO Boxes” without these references ARE NOT ACCEPTED.”
Which kind of entirely defeats the purpose of shipping to a PO box address if i need to have all this random info on the recipient -___- like if i had the full address the PO box wouldn’t be necessary in the first place but the point of having a PO box is preserving the privacy of the owner. In any case, this got me looking into private courier companies, which i’m normally kind of allergic to because they’re really expensive and all around evil but I don’t think i have much choice here. UPS already pulled some evil maneuver on me in the past so i’d really rather not deal with them and DHL was really expensive for no reason so I tried looking into FedEx but they’re telling me they don’t do PO box deliveries either so I’m really lost and idk what to do 🙁 I figured i’d ask here because maybe some other dollect users have mailed stuff to xcanadensis’ PO box from Europe or something, I’m sorry for the only vaguely doll related topic of this post i’m just really dejected and idk who else to turn to o(-(