Receive
Every envelope is met at the desk by a named clerk. It is logged in the house hand, weighed, and set in the day's correspondence tray. Delicate items are placed behind glass until collection instructions arrive.
01
The Premise
An address, reconsidered — as an instrument, not a location.
For as long as there has been correspondence, there has been the address — a string of letters and numerals that quietly announces, to anyone curious enough to inspect the envelope, precisely where a person begins and ends their day.
addrproxy is a bureau built around a simple premise: that this fact should no longer be inevitable. We provide virtualized postal identities, masking routes, and routed residencies for travelers, editors, founders, and any correspondent who requires the dignity of a forwarding address without its disclosures.
Our desks receive, our couriers carry, our ledger remembers — yet the line that connects your name to a particular doorway does not appear in any public register. The envelope arrives. The house, meanwhile, remains quietly unlisted.
Consider this page, then, an envelope. What follows is addressed to you — and to no one else.
02
The Service
A directory of quiet doorways, discreetly tended.
Each member is assigned a correspondence suite — a real doorway in a real city, staffed by clerks who know your preferences the way a tailor remembers a shoulder.
Parcels arrive under the name you elect. They are photographed upon receipt, annotated in our ledger, and forwarded to your current coordinate — by courier, bonded carrier, or a trusted human, according to your standing instructions. No algorithm opens your envelope. No third party knows where it continued onward.
- i. A registered suite in any of our eighteen affiliate cities — complete with a formatted postal line suitable for contracts, bank filings, and correspondence of a delicate nature.
- ii. A routing ledger kept in triplicate — one to the clerk, one to the safe, one to the member. Entries are written by hand and signed.
- iii. A courier on retainer for onward dispatch — by same-day within the city, by bonded carrier to any coordinate on the globe, by diplomatic pouch upon request.
- iv. A standing audience with a dedicated concierge — available by telephone in the usual hours, or by private line at any hour, for members of the House tier.
03
The Cities
A gazetteer of affiliate desks, maintained across three continents.
The bureau operates from eighteen staffed desks — each chosen for its postal dignity, its civic quietude, and its proximity to reliable couriers. A member may correspond from any of them; a member may correspond from all of them.
New York
5th Avenue, Manhattan
10118
London
Marylebone High Street
W1U 5HS
Paris
Rue de Rivoli, 1er
75001
Tokyo
Marunouchi, Chiyoda
100-0005
Dubai
Sheikh Zayed Road
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Zurich
Bahnhofstrasse
8001
Milan
Via Montenapoleone
20121
Vienna
Kärntner Straße
1010
Kyoto
Karasuma-dōri, Nakagyō
604-8091
Singapore
Raffles Place
048623
Additional desks in Copenhagen, Lisbon, Buenos Aires, Montreal, Edinburgh, Cape Town, Reykjavík, and one city whose name we decline to print are available upon invitation. Each maintains the same standard of quiet — the standard of a letter that is opened only by the hand it was intended for.
04
The Practice
A craft of quiet routing — three motions, rehearsed daily.
Route
Your standing instructions — hand-filed, dated, signed — determine the onward journey. Courier, carrier, diplomatic pouch, or private pickup: the bureau selects the vessel most faithful to your intent, and to the weather of the hour.
Forget
Once delivered, the ledger entry is annotated fulfilled and closed. The paper trail is archived; the digital trail is erased; the clerk's memory, being human, quietly dims of its own accord.
There is, in truth, little else to say. The art of an address-proxy is the art of leaving no unnecessary sentence behind. Our prose, like our ledger, prefers brevity.
05
The Ledger
Three grades of membership — each a standing invitation.
Correspondent
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single desk
A single registered suite in the city of your choosing, with weekly onward forwarding and standing courier service. Suitable for the traveler of a single climate — the editor who returns always to the same study.
Atelier
—
three desks
Three coordinated desks across continents, bonded courier between them, and a named concierge retained for your correspondence. Suitable for the founder, the editor-in-motion, the pianist on a long tour of provincial halls.
House
—
full gazetteer
The full gazetteer, a private line at any hour, and custody of sealed items in a bonded safe. By invitation only — extended after a meeting, never after a form. Those who need it tend to know of us before we know of them.
FIN
Begin an Enquiry
Address the bureau directly — we shall reply in hand.
The bureau accepts enquiries by post, by telephone, and — reluctantly — by the typed electronic message. Please include a city of preference and a time at which we may return your call.