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I don't think you're clear on the concept.

The postal service provides a communications infrastructure. The federal government was also heavily involved in the development of the telephone infrastructure, radio & television infrastructures. These are communications infrastructures which are similar to the Internet and wireless access.

The constitution doesn't say they need to provide post office boxes, which are equivilant to POP email in your analogy. They do that anyways, because it's a money maker and helps to pay for the rest of the service. They also help private companies to provide post boxes-- in many cities, the Post Office has contracted with Mailboxes Etc to provide the post box service.

There are online shopping sites that take money orders. In the US, getting a money order is simple enough, head down to the convenience store or your nearest US post office. You can pay for money orders with cash. As for putting in your real name, well, that's not necessary in the web form since you're not paying with a credit card and they don't need it to run the card. As far as your address goes, some copy shops will receive packages for you and give you a street address. Pay with that for cash, it's not prohibitively expensive. Is it more of a hassle? Yes. Will you still get your product the same as if you paid with a credit card? Yes.

Now people just need disposable real names and physical addresses to be set...

Physical address is no problem.
And disposable names just take a bit of creativity. There are still people who call me Frank Sloan!

Mailboxes, Etc. was purchased by UPS so I don't think they'll have any problem doing deliveries there.

Interesting. I figured it was just a private mailbox, but it's actually an office building. A few of their neighbors:

• Boca Technologies
• Lloyd Realty
• Hamilton, Lehrer & Dargan, PA
• Ron Davis & Assoc, PA

Set up a P.O. Box or use a mail forwarding service.
Mailboxes etc. has a handy resource for a majority of small business questions. Check it out here.

This isn't a plug ( I don't work for them), but your business is their business. Even if you don't use their services, their small business page has great information on it.

in fact, i have incorrect data because i and my wife were being stalked - and the WHOIS database is where he thought i lived. He went looking for us at the old address.

Shameless Plug, but experience backs me up. You want to ship computer equipment? Pay the extra money, find a Mailboxes Etc franchise, and have them box it up. They will do the following: 1. Bubble wrap the actually equipment throughly. 2. Place this in peanuts and into a custom-sized box 3. Place this in a second box, larger, custom-sized, also filled with peanuts 4. If heavy enough (like many an HP LJ4000 I shipped) they will also triple box. 5. They will review shipping options of different carriers and make sure you get the right amount of insurance. I worked for an ad agency in Dallas, and we shipped Macs and PCs back and forth from our field offices all over the country. When we packed it, often there was breakage (even when I took a boxed printer on a plane with me). When we had it packed by MBE, it got there every time. Lastly, always keep the original packing if you're going to ship in the future or might...that $50 box looks much cheaper when compared to replacing the >$2000 of computer equipment that came in it. And use buble wrap first, peanuts second. Bubble wrap won't yield the way a bunch of styrfoam peanuts will.