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When distributing items on a "Free, but make a Paypal donation if you wish" basis, how can I hide my street address from donors?

Personal Finance & Money Asked by Mary Donald on March 8, 2021

I am considering producing a small-circulation print-only magazine that will be distributed on a "Free, but send me a donation through Paypal if you wish" basis. The only way to make a payment will be to send it to me through Paypal using my email address.

If I do this, is there a way to ensure that Paypal does not reveal my street address to donors? If so, what is that way? (Note: I think the US English for what in British English is called "street address" is "mailing address".)

I say "donors" because the payments will be voluntary. I am not running a charity. If the sum of the payments is greater than my costs then I will have made a profit on which I will pay tax.

I am guessing the answer is yes, because otherwise all a bad person such as a stalker would have to do to find somebody’s street address would be to send a very small amount of money to them through Paypal, using their email address, and if a Paypal account exists with that email address then click to say they are sending the money to "Family or friends", and a few seconds later they would receive an email from Paypal giving them the person’s street address.

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