I'm also curious because it seems like using a phone with no strings attached today seems almost impossible unless you get an actually old phone, which either works poorly or costs a lot as part of a retro collection or something. Even my iPhone 4S doesn't work if I boot it up, and that came out last decade. Of course, in terms of using a number for making a new account or subscription of sorts, one could still be... Source: 10 months ago

You can also take this poll over at bettor edge, and whichever team gets the most votes, will get an extra 5k donated to their respective charity (the loser will still get a 1k donation). So if you are so inclined, head over there and vote for the huskers and Team Jack. Right now we're losing 65% to 35% to the gophers on who should get the extra donation so vote if you can! Note they ask for a phone number to... Source: 10 months ago

To be very frank, I was also thinking that another reason people tend to use Whatsapp is that it’s not really tied to any actual account as in the case of iCloud, right? It’s just a phone number that’s required, and so if you want to stay private, or just log in with a fake account, you can use a free phone number for verification, just as you would do with some disposable temporary mail when you want to log in to... Source: 11 months ago

While searching for another way out, I stumbled upon a service called quackr.io. It claims to provide temporary phone numbers for registration confirmation purposes. Using fake numbers for app verification is quite tempting, and I read that it's a savior when it comes to website registration. Still, I'm unsure if it's worth the effort because I also read many claiming that temporary phone numbers don't work with... Source: 12 months ago

Idk if this is the right subreddit for this question, but hopin I dont get banned XD. I want to get a verification code for something, but I dont have a phone number that I can use. Does anyone know any free sms sites that will let me get a code? The only one I found so far is quackr.io, but the site where I want to verify says that it only accpets mobile numbers whenever I try on the numbers on quackr. Source: about 1 year ago

I use virtualpostmail.com to receive all my physical mail in the USA. There might be a very rare instance where an institution would demand a residential address and you either ditch them or make sure you can have a separate mailing address on file and give them a family or past address as the residential (since any mail they send will go to your mailing address anyway). Source: 12 months ago

Virtualpostmail.com has been working well for me the past year. I'm able to use the address for all my banks/brokers with the exception of Schwab. Source: almost 2 years ago

I have a PMB (I've tried https://virtualpostmail.com/ and https://earthclassmail.com/) and never receive any junk mail. They either scan your mail to PDF, or forward it to another address. But for some reason which I don't understand, marketers don't send junk mail to PMBs. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

I use virtualpostmail.com to get mail, you might consider getting a US P.O. Box. If you have an American accent and are a US citizen, aside from the time difference you could probably just say you're wherever the PO Box is. Source: over 2 years ago

Also I would highly advice to keep a US mail address, you would need that for bank and future social security disbursements. We got our US mail address through: virtualpostmail.com. It's 30$/month but we don't regret it. It came in quite handy for numerous purposes. Source: almost 3 years ago