How to receive packages pseudonymously?
"I've done this before for startup companies where I didn't want the mailing address to really obviously be my apartment or home address. Just for appearances. What you should be Googling are terms like ""private mailbox center."" If I recall correctly, I used to do this with Mail Boxes Etc before they were bought by UPS. This seems to be the equivalent offering these days: https://www.theupsstore.com/mailboxes I haven't looked at a dummy office for receiving mail -- I imagine that is a bit more expensive. Unless people are delivering things in person I think that would be overkill -- the Fedex guy doesn't care if his package delivery is to a UPS mailbox center."
Packaging is now synonymous with plastics. Almost any type of packaging is incomplete without plastic. It is no wonder a plastic handles manufacturer has good business. It does not matter what the packaging is for. Food products, medicine, veggies, you name it – plastic packaging seems to be the best answer. I have an idea: Let's make home loans for people who traditionally wouldn't have been able to afford them, package them up into large packages of many loans, then sell, as a super-safe investment, a portion of that package designed to absorb the least of the default risk.  The big investors will have a safe place to put their money; people will get houses they couldn't otherwise afford; and we'll get management fees from the former and high returns from the latter paying back their high-interest mortgages, satisfying the more-risky portion of the mortgage package that we're not selling (assuming not too many of them default, but that's unlikely, given that the housing market can only go up from here). Everyone wins! Different regional offices, different employee culture.   I've never had a UPS package arrive with more than a bump on it. On the other hand, the USPS once delivered me a package (that I sent myself, so I know what was in it) with half the contents missing and replaced with somebody else's crap. "In general, scholarship income that you receive that is not used for tuition or books must be included in your gross income and reported as such on your tax return.  Scholarship income you receive that is used for those kinds of expenses may be excludable from your gross income.  See this IRS information and this related question. I believe that as represented on the 1098-T, this generally means that if Box 5 (Scholarships and Grants) is greater than Box 1 or 2 (only one of which will be used on your 1098-T), you received taxable scholarship income.  If Box 5 is less than or equal to Box 1/2, you did not receive taxable scholarship income.  This TaxSlayer page draws the same conclusion. However, you should realize that the 1098-T is not what makes you have to pay or not pay taxes.  You incur the taxes by receiving scholarship money, and you may reduce your tax liability by paying tuition.  The 1098-T is simply a record of payments that have already been made. For instance, if you received $10,000 in scholarship money --- that is, actually received checks for that amount or had that amount deposited into your bank account --- then your income went up by $10,000.  If you yourself paid tuition, it is likely that you can exclude the amount of the tuition from your taxable income, reducing the tax you owe (see the IRS page linked above).  However, if you received $10,000 in actual money and in addition your tuition was paid by the scholarship (with money you never actually had in your own bank account), then the entire $10,000 would be taxable.  You do not give enough information in your question to be sure which of these situations is closer to your own.  However, you should be able to decide by looking at your bank account: look at how much money you received and how much you spent on tuition.  If you received more scholarship money than the tuition you paid out of pocket, you owe taxes on the remainder.  (I emphasize that this is just a general rule of thumb and should not be taken as tax advice; you should review the IRS information and/or consult a tax professional to determine what part of your scholarship income is taxable.) In addition, as this (now rather old) article from the New York Society of CPAs notes, ""many colleges and universities prepare 1098-Ts incorrectly and report tuition and related expenses inconsistently"".  This means you should be careful to reconcile the 1098-T with your own financial records of what money you actually received and paid.  When I was in grad school there was a good deal of hand-wringing and hair-pulling each year among the students as we tried to determine what relationship (if any) the 1098-T bore to the financial facts." "The thing to look at is PayPal's ""PayPal.me"" service, which is a pretty neat little item.  When you sign up for a PayPal.me account (totally free), you create a unique username.  So for example, my PayPal.me account name is DanCAnderson.  I can give someone the following web link to send me $500: http://paypal.me/DanCAnderson/500 If you click the link above, you'll see what the user sees (my company name is Salt River Networks, Inc.).  I gave a live link so you can see the working example of it (no need for anyone to send money! chuckle). I can change the amount by simply changing the value at the end of the URL. When they go to that link, they see a landing page with your name on it and the amount to send to you, then they go through the normal process of paying via PayPal. It's a pretty neat service, and I've used to it bill a few clients for work I've done by emailing that link to them rather than going through the whole PayPal procedure." "I think the survey needs to be broken down to ""as a consumer..."" and ""as a merchant...""  I'm not sure any service like the one you propose can be really implemented on the consumer side.   In particular, I suspect few if any consumers would pay for the privilege  You might look into the company ""Neat"" who sold a specialized scanner and software package designed around organizing reciepts a while back.   Retailer buy-in is a huge factor too.  You can create a platform and encourage retailers to send reciepts via email or whatever, but at the end of the day, a lot of retailers still see value in a reciept 5x as long as it should be to itemize the 22 ways you ""saved money"" and the 19 cross-promotions or coupons they want to inform you of.    Unless you can provide equal percieved value for them, they won't be interested, even if consumers like the concept.  The classic example in this debate is the US chain ""CVS Pharmacy""-- whose long reciepts are the butt of many jokes, but persist because they're part of an elaborate reward scheme where they give people coupons in the hopes of them coming back to use them.  As for the smaller vendors who may not be as tied to such strategies, they're also likely going to be less technically equipped to cope with  a new feature.  You almost need to target the POS vendors like NCR and IBM-- if you can make ""electronic reciept"" a feature in their platform, it becomes something that hundreds of stores are getting built into their systems for ""free"" and they just have to turn it on.  That's a lot easier than selling to every single retailer one at a time, and it would be a big enough launch that you could start to get customer preference" Throwaway account was a good idea.  I work in government sourcing and depending on what government you work for, what you're doing is illegal as shit.  Federal stature and most state statute prevent a government employee from 1) getting paid for another job while being paid by the government for working during the same period (double dipping), and 2) being involved in the selection process of a vendor with whom the employee has a vested interest.  Additionally, if you work in a position that requires you to complete an ethics form and certify it, you will be further breaking the law if you don't disclose ownership by falsifying a government document.   Realistically, you're probably just full of it, but if you're telling the truth what you're doing is unethical and probably illegal.  And before you get too smug, you should know that government auditors aren't nearly as incompetent as you might think. Just overworked. It might take a year or two but I'm guessing they figure it out eventually. Government procurement and auditors generally have to verify things like company registration documents, etc...before awarding contracts and any time a contract is renewed. The auditors go back and look at those documents. It won't be hard to figure out what's going on, especially if you were the PM for the project. Regardless of the technicalities of how information was stolen through Kapersky, I am wondering why anyone would use antivirus software, which by definition must operate at a privileged level, that's produced by a company in a country like Russia or China. We already know for a fact that Tencent's WeChat programmatically monitors, censors, and likely reports thought crimes, and I would be surprised if Kapserky is NOT an agent of the Russian government to a similar capacity.