@jensmanchester-australia wrote:
Maybe it will now let you purchase but you can't complete payment as that is the problem I had.
As far as I know, it has always allowed purchase if the seller has excluded PO box addresses, well, it has for the time I've had mine as my primary postage address (nearly 4 years) - I've never actually come across a block when I've tried to purchase unless I add the item to the cart (then I get told I can't complete the order because the seller doesn't send to PO boxes, but I can still BIN the same item the old way - if I do, sometimes I get a note mentioning the seller doesn't post to PO boxes before I confirm purchase, other times I don't).
The exclusion doesn't act as block in itself, since PO box is amongst the same exclusions as countries / regions, so unless a seller implements the block against buyers with a primary address they won't post to, purchase will always go through (same as it will if they exclude Australia, but don't activate the block) and you'll just be told to change addresses at the point of checkout because domestic postage can be calculated. As I've never been blocked from sellers who don't ship to PO boxes, I can't say for sure what happens if they both exclude and block (i.e. I don't know if any of the sellers I've bought from did both or not).
