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  • Suchitra100

    (@suchitra100)


    Hi all,

    I am trying to create an E-mail subscriber list for my website, but Mailchimp asks for a postal address to be included in all e-mails sent out. I don’t want visitors with a difference in opinion, landing at my doorstep! Also, when you spend on protecting your whois information with domain name providers, how does it make sense to broadcast your home address to all of your subscribers? A P.O.Box is quite expensive for a beginner like me. Is there any alternative to this problem? Thanks for your time.

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  • Miroslav Glavić

    (@miroslavglavic)

    I am in Canada,an I have a PO Box. I don’t know what country you are in.

    In Canada, we can get different sizes po boxes. You don’t need to get the biggest. I have a just below medium but not a small po box. If I get a big package, they just keep it in the back and put in a notice slip in my po box. when I check it then I take it out and show it at the counter.

    What would happen if you put a fake one? Do you have a “day time” job that you could use it’s address?

    WPyogi

    (@wpyogi)

    Have you asked MailChimp? Are you using a WP plugin for that?

    EDITED – if a plugin, which one?

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/

    Find the plugin and ask on the sub-forum for that plugin.

    or perhaps use a different subscription plugin?

    catacaustic

    (@catacaustic)

    From Mailchimp iself…

    Enter the contact information and physical mailing address for the owner of this list. This is required by law. If you’re an agency sending on behalf of a client, enter your client’s information.

    If you have any more questions you need to ask Mailchimp directly as no one here represents them, and only they would be able to answer anything more in depth than this.

    Prakash

    (@ankitpr89)

    @suchitra100 Yes you can use another alternative to Mailchimp, also, that is 12 times cheaper, it’s Mailerlite.
    Have a look through my review of [link removed – please do not use these forums to post links to your site – http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Helping_Out ]

    Thread Starter Suchitra100

    (@suchitra100)

    @miroslav Glavić Thanks for replying. I live in UK. It costs £250/year for a P.O.Box here. I don’t really care about the size, as long as its legal and gives me a valid postal address to use. For this reason, I don’t want to use a fake address either!

    @wpyogi I’m not using a wp plugin for this yet, but even Mailpoet requires a third party email sender, I think. My problem is more general than related to a specific plugin. Hence I posted here in the Misc support section. I see a lot of wordpress users have email subscribe option, so I thought there might be a solution for me. I haven’t used a specific forum as I don’t know the options available to me, and hence don’t know in which forum to post.

    @catacaustic The “law” refers to CAN-SPAM which is for U.S. based email service providers like Mailchimp. I have no reason to mail Mailchimp directly as I am not trying to get them to make an exception for me. I have clearly written that I am looking for alternatives. There is no universal law for the internet and I’m free to consider options in the UK(where I’m located) or elsewhere. If you weren’t clear what the question was about, how about asking for more info? If you’ve got nothing constructive to say, why comment at all? caustic indeed!

    @ankitpr89 Thanks for the link. My concern with Mailchimp is not about price, its more of a privacy issue. I did take a look at Mailerlite though, but I didn’t get proper answers from their live chat support, and the reviews I came across weren’t good either. So I’m still looking for other options that provide reliable email deliverability without sending out my home address to strangers on the internet.

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