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<p>[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 84031, member: 1892"]It's actually pretty easy, in practice. The recipient creates a dedicated email addy to attach to a Paypal account, for those interested in that payment. A trusted volunteer with access to a P.O. Box serves as the point of contact for snail-mail payments. As part of the cost of donation, each donor agrees to cover the cost of shipping and insurance (and considers this cost in the decision of what to donate). At the raffle's completion all the donors drop-ship to whoever won, and only the coordinator of the raffle ever has access to any more than one address.</p><p><br /></p><p>This can easily be done with no participation at all by the beneficiary of the raffle, to avoid any seeming conflict of interest. Especially here, there are senior members who have a business stake in the hobby this site is dedicated to - they have considerable reputations more important than the value of the raffle - who can be trusted to run things cleanly and neatly. I'll bet one would step up if this idea became more concrete.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SuperDave, post: 84031, member: 1892"]It's actually pretty easy, in practice. The recipient creates a dedicated email addy to attach to a Paypal account, for those interested in that payment. A trusted volunteer with access to a P.O. Box serves as the point of contact for snail-mail payments. As part of the cost of donation, each donor agrees to cover the cost of shipping and insurance (and considers this cost in the decision of what to donate). At the raffle's completion all the donors drop-ship to whoever won, and only the coordinator of the raffle ever has access to any more than one address. This can easily be done with no participation at all by the beneficiary of the raffle, to avoid any seeming conflict of interest. Especially here, there are senior members who have a business stake in the hobby this site is dedicated to - they have considerable reputations more important than the value of the raffle - who can be trusted to run things cleanly and neatly. I'll bet one would step up if this idea became more concrete.[/QUOTE]
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