It's also in the US. A consumer protection law in California started it around a decade ago and Google applied it to everyone instead of letting us opt out of the state (it's why I let my Android app die), and since then they've also disallowed PO boxes.
The solution I figured out is to use a forwarding service (e.g., Anytime Mailbox) and then you fill out a form with USPS that basically declares that the business is the using that address as a proxy.
Technically the government knows where you are and all that, but the public doesn't easily know where I literally sleep at night.
And, really, if someone was to mail me a letter as a customer, I would get it. The forwarding service will scan mail for me or let me pick it up in person for a trivial fee
This ends up costing about $10/month depending where you live.
Just one more little way that this is a bit of a hassle to just sell a little $5 app as a side gig.
And I know this is more of a government regulation thing but I wonder if there's no other way to be compliant with regulations and also save solo/small businesses from this little extra bit of annoyance and cost.
Large companies or even relatively small businesses that exist in leased commercial space don't have this problem since their mailing address does not represent a real person's house and has no ties to an individual.
