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Hello and welcome. This is Gabriel Custodiet of Watchman Privacy Privacy practitioner, consultant, author and frontline fighter in the push for privacy. I know why you're here. Like the rest of us here in the resistance, you're trying to escape the technocratic apparatuses that you see enveloping you and crushing your freedoms. That's why I created all of this, all without sponsors. I hope you enjoy this show. But then when you're ready to take the next steps to secure your privacy and your future, Visit my website, escapethetechnocracy.com to start the real journey. Your support alone does not determines the future of the show. See you there. Welcome to the Privacy Postmaster version of Watchmen Privacy. I'm speaking with Dallas of Privacy Post IO. Welcome back to the show, Dallas. How's it going?
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Hello, Gabriel. It's good to be back. I can't remember when we recorded the last one. You have that.
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September 2025. So that's been, that's been about 10 months. So Dallas is our resident South Dakota experts. We have an entire course on escape the technocracy.com called nomad residency. Basically extreme Nomad Residency. A great state to do this in is South Dakota. Let's just start with the kind of the remedial class. Dallas, real quick, for the privacy seekers out there, the people interested in having some freedom and privacy. Why is South Dakota Nomad Residency an option for them?
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Oh, let me think of the low hanging fruit here and make it quick and summarize it. Two reasons. First, to get a driver's license in South Dakota is a one night stay and you can use a PMB address on your driver's license and they don't give you the stink eye.
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And a PMB is a private mailbox.
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Yeah, private mailbox address can be on your, on your driver's license, not your home address. Secondly, South Dakota is a very private state as far as the, how they share their data with the data brokers and so forth. And from the state level all the way down to the city level there, there is, you know, they're, they don't share their data as, as you know, easily as let's say California or Florida, all your DMV data and so forth and really quick, Gabriel, I'll give you an update on that or an exact detail from a news report I just saw just the other day. The city of Sioux Falls is now, because of the data broker requests, they are now increasing the city fee of $100 per hour for data broker requests, not freedom of Information requests, but data broker requests of data, they're charging now 100 bucks an hour. So that kind of should slow that down as well.
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So that's interesting. Yeah. Also no, no state income tax in South Dakota. So they stay out of your business a little bit, basically. And the whole idea of getting a mailbox on your driver's license, essentially you have the ability to have an address in a place that you've maybe only visited for one day. And now you have. We'll discuss, there's some nuance to this. You, you can't just do that with any pmb, but you can now use this address on all your important accounts, financial accounts, things of this sort, so that you can go about your life, have your regular accounts that we need and have it, have that address be a place that you have never visited and is not where you sleep at night, certainly. So this is the great option for Americans to have physical privacy.
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Yeah. And hey Gabe, let me give you another real life example here. This just happened yesterday. Have a client that is South Dakota using the address for their office address. And, and this person is a gig worker and does a process serving, independent process server. And we were going through some of her scenarios and she says, hey, you know, I'm, I've got this one address here, this guy, he's at Tower Campground, which is very common for RV people that come into Sioux Falls for their, for their residency. I'm like, that's, I know Tower, I'm very familiar with it. And we're talking about, you know, the, the private, you know, it's private property, if she can access it and stuff. And I, and I dig in some information, some open source information with her and then we come to find out that his mailing address in open source information is Dakota Post, the Potsdam Avenue. So I'm like, you're not going to find this person. They were here one day, they stayed at Tower Campground and they then used their Potsdam address on their driver's license and they, they're nowhere to, you won't find them. Or so that is what this process server, it is a collection process. It's for collections, debt collection or for a lien or something. They don't, that's what they have. They've got Tower Campground and they got Potsdam Avenue, Dakota Post. So they don't got much.
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Very useful, very useful indeed. So if you check out Escape the Technocracy, you'll find the Nomad residency course. Essentially I'm directing people on that course to work. We walk you through all the steps, all the, all the little details there. But essentially an easy recommendation is privacy post IO. This is Dallas's website. This is Dallas's service. He offers this PMB with some enhancements as well, that makes it a lot more useful and a lot more private than the other PMBs that are out there. It looks like you've had a website, a little bit of a website simplification. Dallas, Basic HTML website loads super, super quick in Tor. What, what other changes with your service in the last bit of time?
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Yeah, so a little bit on that. I took that advice from one of your courses in what you mentioned before and it wasn't directly, it was like planting a seed for me. It wasn't like an aha moment at that time. I'm going to do that. It would, it did plant a seed
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and I've seen my website with, with minimal lines of code.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you, you inspired that, you inspired that. You know, so, so thank you for that and. But yeah, I did it all myself and there's a lot of few changes I need to make and the original HTML website took a lot of work to maintain and to make changes. So I wasn't making changes as frequently. And with that change is, I wanted to make it very simple just so people can just review the key points, scroll through it, take a few minutes and then they can reach for the next steps. And that's really, you know, the goal of that with that is I did change the plans up a little bit. The original plan is the same price. I may be changing the name of it, but it's still privacy plus it's the same price. However, I've removed features from it. Rather than raising prices, I have removed some features from it. So if someone still wants to get an entry level for price, they can still get it and then they can choose on the other features that they need or want. And if they don't need them, it's ideal for them. For example, they don't need an LLC. If they want to do their own 1583 DIY, they can save significant money by, by either doing them themselves or not having not needing an llc. A lot of people that are on the private supplies, they don't need an llc. So, you know, it was used to be included. Now, now I've removed it and that's the next plan up. Now the big piece is I've added a fourth plan. This is a significant change and I really, this is kind of a game changer for some people. And now I provide A physical office. Now, what does that mean, a physical office? If you were to do an office before, and I have a few clients doing that now, and actually that business is picking up, you, you can get a lease. You have a lease with the, with the office. However, most of your documents and paperwork and filings and stuff have to have a mailing of your pmb. And then your, your, your office address is your office address without the pmb. And I'm very, very strict about that. Because your office is not staffed, there's nobody there to receive your mail. So we are receiving your mail. So we are receiving your mail on your behalf. And if you send a ton of mail to your office address, we're kind of breaking the rules on the PMB stuff. And we just, we don't want to, you know, go down that road. A kind of a slippery slope. Now in the, with the virtual office, yes, there's some things you will have. You need to have your virtual. Your, your mailbox address listed as your mailing address for your business. But then you can say your physical address is the office. Some banks, even if you have a mailing address to your pmb, they still will send to your physical. That's fine, we'll accept that and move it over. But that has to be minimal mail. It can't be everything. So we ran into a situation. I'll just cut to the chase. A national person, they got the virtual mailbox address. I explained everything. The terms of service are very clear to them. They got their virtual mailbox and they turned a virtual office. I'm sorry, they turned it into a physical office. Everything. Their irs, all their banking, everything they got, they made a bunch of kind of suspicious fictitious DBAs under people's names. Everything was their physical address. Office address was both mailing and physical office. And I unfortunately had to give the person the boot. And that inspired the idea that I can do a physical office. They just have to meet certain requirements. And we have this outside this call. I can discuss how this works, where your office is physically staffed to receive your mail by your employee.
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In addition to helping out people who are nomads within the US if you have plans to travel internationally as an American, you might want to sever ties with your current home state so that they don't keep, you know, taxing you and all the rest. South Dakota is a great option before you go live internationally. Also, somebody's going to have to receive your mail. It's not going to be mom, because she's not going to forward your Mail and upload it and all the rest like a professional service would do. So it's also something people who are going international should be considering in addition to people who are going the Nomad route within the US There was a question I saw Dallas in a privacy online privacy magazine and they brought up your service privacy post. And the question was they were basically asking the owner of the magazine, what do you think about privacy post? And basically the sentiment relayed was that they like to see a service stick around for a while before they start using it or recommend it. I mean, this is a valid question, I guess. I mean this is the first question I ever asked you a couple years ago in our first issue, our first episode together was how, you know, are you going to stick around? Obviously, I mean, honestly, if you ever were to shut down, it's not that big of a hassle to just switch to a different provider. So in that sense it's a little bit silly. But your thoughts on the question of is privacypost IO going to be around in the long term and do you have enough history for people to start trusting you?
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Yeah. So that posting from a very well known and listened to privacy person specialist who's kind of like gotten a little quiet lately last few years anyway, he said that, that it needs to be around for or something to paraphrase that for a few years. I'm pretty sure that's what he used. And a client actually cut and pasted me this. I was not aware of it. And so I read that I'm like, wow. And it was a neutral. It was a neutral post or response to a question. And so I at least appreciate that. And even though there's no notice, he's bad publicity, you know, he did totally, you know, dis it or anything. But the few years he said and so I don't know.
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You've been around for a few years.
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Yeah, so we've been around since 2020 or 2021 is when we started the operations. So it's 2026 and so it's. We've been around at least five years. So I think that meets the mark. And let me tell you, you know, Gabriel, how many people tell. Tell me about, you know, if you go through these aggregator sites, like I don't know, I postal one. These sites that use other brick and mortars for their locations, they are changing and deleting and removing sites are like, I'm tired of working with ipostal1. They suck. I don't want to be on their website anymore. And they they're delisted per se or they remove their partnership. When it's partnership sites, those come and go all the time and they, you know, they, they people are having to change their dresses and then you got, you know, still to this day the, the physical address people, they still have not their heads in the sand on their breach. They own all their own offices. But people are like I'm getting out of here, I don't want my stuff here anymore. Or I just signed up and I'm not going to continue to sign up because, because of the breach. So they're moving anyway. So, so yeah, so I don't, I don't what business would say, oh yeah, we're, we're, you know, yeah, we're, you know, we're, we're open for business but we might not be next year.
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So it's, it's not a very, it's not a very useful comment. I also think that and, and the reason why you're really the only service I can recommend it's because view of the privacy practices that you deploy in terms of protecting the mail, in terms of only communicating ProtonMail to ProtonMail or using Signal, these other services, we've talked about them in past episodes, they don't do that. So I don't understand if you're a privacy advocate, how you could recommend any service that you know, any of these big mail services in South Dakota, that, that seems to be an issue by itself.
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Yeah, especially when I think it's, it's a little, I don't hypocritical when people will say, you know, you, yeah, for privacy, you know, for, you know, for going into South Dakota, get the cheapest basic plan possible. Get the cheapest service possible. But if you want me to do cons, if you want any privacy consulting, you know, you're going to pay a premium because privacy is a premium and, and I can provide you consulting for a premium price. And so I think people that really value the service and use it understand that, you know, privacy comes with a premium and a lot of the automations we can't do so that requires, you know, more, more work, more manual process. And there, there comes a cost with that.
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Right. And you know what if, if more people sign up to the service, maybe those prices can go down.
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Yeah. So that point. Thank you for saying that. And I was going to allude to that as well. When, when people call and they do their consultation and they say, well you know, if I sign up, are you going to be around next year and I said, well, of course I'm not going to say, oh, no, we probably won't be. I'll tell you what you want to hear. But. But what I say to people is tell other people, you know, be the ambassador to promote and encourage people. The more people we get signed up, the more volume we have, the more solid, you know, the business plan is to stay in business as any business. So that's how I answer that. So, you know, it's a good point as well, Gabriel.
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One of the other things that you offer that these other services do not offer is a solution for the residential address that is required from financial institutions, all sorts of other important categories of your life, that if you just use a PMB address, it's not going to work. So you have a solution for that. It's called enhanced residency. And that's another reason why I recommend your services, because this is the only. I'm. I'm not aware of people besides you who have figured this out. Talk about enhanced residency and some of the updates.
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Yeah, thanks for reminding me, because we got to talk a little bit of some updates on that. The enhanced residency is where, you know, you. You get a letter from your bank and says, hey, you need a. You need a physical address. You need a residential address for your banking. We can't. We can't have this PMB address anymore. And you're like, well, I don't live anywhere. I travel. I live abroad. I travel all the time. I don't have an address. Like, sorry, we need an address. And people are like, well, I don't have family or friends that I want to involve in this whole process, so I don't know what to do. Also, I had. It didn't end up being a client, but a potential client was doing everything out rapid, and they were having problems with their PMB for their Coinbase account. Their Coinbase account was going compliant like a bank account and was needing a residential address. And he didn't want to burn his address because of all of the implications, like with the Tresorit wallet and all that people's addresses leaking out. So he wanted, you know, he was looking for a solution. So that's what this residential address can do, is it can, you know, grease those skids to getting bank accounts and credit cards and whatever that you need by providing you a residential address that you intend to return to when you're not. When you're no longer traveling, but you physically aren't. Aren't residing there at that moment. So that's a subscription level Base for that. And let me tell you, Gabriel, I don't know if any of your peeps have given you feedback on it, but when I see people who are struggling, struggling, struggling with getting banking, getting credit cards, living abroad, trying to get a credit card, and, you know, they just keep on hitting barrier after barrier and then they follow our plan with the enhanced residency and sometimes with the office address, man, it just, things just fall into place and bam, bam, bam. Cards start arriving, verifications start getting completed, you know, and all of a sudden, you know, they got their banking taken care of.
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Exactly. And I'll be transparent for people. So your prices are a little bit higher than the average. And then the enhanced residency itself is an additional cost. But this is just what you have to do if you're actually going to live this lifestyle.
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Yeah. I mean, there are some other services in other states that do a similar model and their residency option for a residential address is way more.
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Right.
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Like double, triple than what we, than what we charge. Oh, I would say more than that even. Yeah.
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Because for you to have to solve and residential address, that is not a
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small task for them. Yes, because it's. For me, it's a lot of work as well, so. But yeah, yeah, for them. Yes, it is, it is in, in people who really, like, don't want to use, you know. And the other one is too, is a lot of people like, well, I, I'd. You, I, I'd use my mom's address, but it's in California.
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Using a family member's address is a, is a big problem if you're being a nomad, you're living international. Do not use your family's address because you're going to get all sorts of mail that's coming to them. They're not going to forward it. It might be sensitive mail. You might get under the tax net of New Jersey or California or some of this other nonsense. It's not a good idea. It's simply not a good idea. You might merge your business with their business in a way that you don't want to.
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And if they're a boomer, good luck getting your mail. And, or, or a gen. What would be a gen Y? Or it's like mail. What's mail? Oh, that, that box out in the end of my driveway. That's. What is that for? How, how do I put a stamp on that? You could, you could drop that off someplace. And, and one more point to that is, Let me circle back to that process server that I was talking about, who was looking for that person at Tower Campground. If you are in a position, I just got some IRS letters to the residential address for someone, one of the, one of the clients. And if you're using a friend or a family member, that process server will be knocking on their door. Those certified letters will be coming to their mom's address or their friend's address or whatever, you know, so, and, and yeah, you know, we all hope that we are never in that position, but you just never know. It could be a, you know, in this situation with, with my client is, you know, they're going through a nasty divorce and now all this stuff is, you know, mucking up, you know, this person's life. And, and that could involve other friends or family members. If you have that address as your, your home address.
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Right. If you're, if you're becoming a resident and you're doing it legitimately, you become a South Dakota resident, you're not paying state income tax, then a service like this, a good service will certainly pay for itself. And then some like literally pay for itself. So what's the deal though with another, another hurdle that some people, a lot of people have is car insurance. This is one of those other things where the PMB address just isn't going to work. Somebody was telling me just recently that they were doing the South Dakota nomad residency route and they got the, they got the boot from their provider that said, yeah, we will not give you car insurance because this is a PNB address.
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Yeah. So before I forget, Gabriel, remind me about W2 after we talk about insurance. So the insurance issue is becoming a bigger. It's continuing to get more difficult and more challenging with the advent of others. Yes, the insurance companies wising up the number of probably nomads and the technologies of AI and flocks and private license plate reader technology that is rampant. It's everywhere that these insurance companies are adjusting their risk and they are determining where people are actually driving their vehicle as opposed to where they say their vehicles garaged, which still could impact you if you use the enhanced residency address. But they're also clamping down on insure the state or your address. You need a physical address, you need a residential address. You can no longer use a PMB address for your insurance even if your title of your vehicle is a pmb. They want a garage address, not a PMB address. And they continue to clamp down that it is a game of whack, a mole. It's not just this all fell swoop, but the compliance and so forth is continuing to increase, as I have stated before and I'm continuing, and this continuing to ramp up is the number of letters received that say your insurance policy will not be renewed unless you provide a physical address. Your policy, your claim has paid, but your policy's canceled because you're driving your vehicle in the state a majority of the time in a state that you don't have it insured. And I've even seen ones, Gabriel, where they don't cover the policy, they don't cover liability and stuff because the person misrepresented the state that their vehicles is insured in. Now, if you use an enhanced residency address for your policy, that is not just a set it and forget it guarantee. You're not going to run into problems that will mitigate them. But when it really comes down to it, if you have a claim and they say, well, you're, you're garage, you have a residential address in South Dakota and it's garage there. But you're never there, you know, so you still have to, I don't want to be, you know, Pollyanna and mislead people that it's a magic, you know, get out of jail card free. But it does help to have that residential address. I've even had people in town that they have to take pictures of the garage, of the residential address to that they have to upload in an app to their insurance provider. And let me say one more thing, and I hear this all the time, two scenarios like, well, my, my insurance agent said this won't be no problem with, with the PMB or whatever. And my insurance agent says, not a problem, so I'm good. And the second one is, well, I've been paying my premium for three years to this PMB address. There they accept my money, so I'm good. And both of those assumptions are categorically false and it's a false sense of security. First of all, your agent represents you, not the insurance company. Your agent is not the underwriter is not managing the risk. It's not the legal department that's going to say, do we want to pay this claim out. Your agent's primary motivation is to sell policies. And they're going to sell policies by removing as many obstacles as possible. So people have to understand that, especially if you're dealing with, let's say, State Farm, where you can throw a, you can throw a nickel in any direction in Sioux Falls and you hit a State Farm office. That's the way any, any major city or any city metropolitan area. And they are so competitive for the business and they are pushed so hard because they're a captivated agent for more policies, they'll sign anyone up that can fog a mirror. And then as far as the, the insurance aid companies accepting your money, they'll accept you. They're more than happy to accept your money. But when they, what they don't want to do is pay out a claim. When it comes time to pay out a claim, they're like, well, wait a minute, he breached the terms of service. We're not going to pay this claim. We don't have to. And they're more motivated to, to say, no, you're not compliant, we're not going to pay your claim out. So people who think, I haven't, I've been using my PMB address for five years. No problem, man. Probably because you've never had a claim. So people really need to be thinking about those things.
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They do need to be thinking about them. There's no easy option. Your service, you do offer some ideas on how to solve that. You have some solutions. So people should definitely reach out to you and ask about that when they're, you know, when they're signing up. Now, you mentioned W2s.
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Yeah. So this has just happened here within the last month or so. So people with W2s, they need to understand that if you have, if you, here's the advantage. You already said no, no state income tax. So people are like, I'm going to go to South Dakota. I'm a, I'm a digital nomad. I work contract W2. And so I'm going to put South Dakota as my state and I'm going to use a PMB address as my state. You will get caught either right at the get go or eventually some people slip through the, through the cracks and they don't get caught. They have blacklisted the PMB addresses, including 1 12th South Maine. So that when you apply for your W2, if you say in your W2, okay, my state is South Dakota, would they then start your unemployment account? They need to open that up in South Dakota. South Dakota sees the PMB address, they blacklist and say, nope, you don't qualify because you have a PMB address. You have to have a physical address, okay. So you can use the residential address to meet that requirement to then pay no state income tax. However, you still need to contribute to your W2, which is not much. I'm sorry, your, your unemployment insurance, which is not much. However, if you go to submit a claim, if you've snuck through with your PMB and I know people have, and they've been lucky and they submit a claim, they will get caught and say, sorry, you know, you don't qualify for unemployment because you have a PMB address and you need to be physically working in South Dakota, so you don't qualify. So if you use the enhanced residency address that is going to give you the state income tax bonus of no state income tax and you will have to contribute to your, your, your unemployment insurance. But in the all reality, you cannot and we will not allow you to file an unemployment insur insurance claim even though you have a residential address because you're not meeting the requirement. You are not physically here doing the work. Yeah, you could probably sneak through, but we're not going to let you because if we, that's going to put us at risk for compliance and stuff. And that could burn our address if we let people do that. And it's just not right because that's the state law. You physically have to be here. So people need to make that calculated risk or the calculated number, okay, I'm going to save this much on income tax, but I'm gonna have to put a little bit into my unemployment and whatever. And I have seen people, they then once they do get an unemployment claim, they move over to their state that the company is at as far as unemployment insurance and they have to flip over everything over to that state and then they get it if they want, but then they then what if your employer's out of Massachusetts or California? Then you gotta weigh that out. So it does have. So people really need to say, and people say this, I don't care. I don't need unemployment. But when it comes down to it, you know, if you're in a pickle and you need unemployment, people really need to be aware of that. And I guarantee you, Gabriel, there's no other provider out there that are going to tell you these caveats and these risks and the truth about it. They're just going to say, no, no, no problem. Use our PMB for everything, you know. Yeah, you're, you're golden man. No problem.
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Indeed. Many things to think about. What is the latest with driver's licenses in South Dakota? The basic nomad process is you get your PNB and you therefore have an address that you can give to get your driver's license. Of course, you have to show up, schedule an appointment and show up in South Dakota. That is the one trip that you do have to make in order to get your driver's license. There's been a Little bit of a change to that process recently. Wow.
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Yes. So you, you should. I used to tell people, don't even waste your time trying to schedule an appointment because they're so far out and it's going to be hard to get an appointment. Most people are not planning that far out. So now I'm just saying to people now they've changed it to more of an automated process online through a third party service. So now just remember now too, you're putting your personal information into a. Yeah. So the driver's license. There's been some change significantly in the process as far as getting in que. No longer have to wait in line, get there early in the morning and try to get be the first in line because if you're not there first thing in the morning and if you even get 25 people ahead of you, which will happen very quickly, even if you get there 15 minutes late, you know it's going to be piled up. You will, you'll be the most of the day. You'll be waiting to get in there. And a lot of people are like, I'm not going to leave and lose my spot. So they sit there all day long waiting. So they. Now what happened was I had a client come in town and I gave them the rundown, they had the residency guide and what to do and I don't think he read it. So he has, he had no clue that he wanted to be there first thing in the morning he says I'm gonna show up at 10 o'. Clock. I said, no you're not. So after the discussion and the fact that this client, he got the full Monty package, he got the office address, the residential address. I mean he went all out, got a couple llc and so I decided would not even telling him. I just went there an hour earlier in the morning. I was there at 6am, they open at 7am and when I got there to make sure I was first in line because summers is really always busy. There's a QR code on the door and it says start here. And I'm like, wtf, what's going on here? I can't scan a QR code. There was no URL with it. I can't scan it. You know, best practice, I can't scan it. And physically my, my devices don't allow me to scan it. So I'm like, what's going on? A couple other people that were nomads or scratching their head, they scanned it. We, I looked at their screens, they shared them with me and we looked you know, figured out. And so what you basically have to do now is you have to register online through a third party service to get in queue. This third party service will tell you when your estimated time to show to arrive is. Now in the past I've said don't waste your time getting an appointment because they're almost impossible to get. They fill up very quickly and they're so far out now I'm saying if you can get an appointment, try, but good luck, you're probably not going to get one in the time window that you're, you're even a couple months out that you're going to be coming to South Dakota. But do try, don't hinge your plans on that appointment. Don't say, oh, I'm going to change my flight because I couldn't get a, you know, an appointment and oh, I got an appointment three weeks later than I planned. So I'm going to change my flight to that. Don't do that. Just still, still arrive when you originally planned on and go through this process with this, this queue now. One, you know, a couple things people in the privacy side need to consider is, you know, you're putting some basic information on a third party website. So be aware of that. You know, what I recommend, what I recommend in my client is I, you know, because I was there and I'm glad my instinct had me go there. I just had this feeling, I'm like, I really should go there not knowing of this new process. And I said to the client, I said, just hey, hang out, hang out at the enhanced residency address. I gotcha, go to this QR code, get in line right away, be the first, first 25 and you'll get a slot as soon as possible. And so he just stayed at the enhanced residency address and work, did some work for work and was comfortable there and did what he needed to do. Now this is one of the selling points to the enhanced residency address. When you, when you stay at your address upon availability and most of the time you can, I don't double book at that. So there's not a checkout time, there's not a, oh, you know, you have someone coming in that night, you have that for the whole entire day. So if you get a hotel or Airbnb, you know, you're, they're pushing you out the door at 10 o', clock, you're lucky if they'll let you, you know, extend it to noon unless you got some, you know, you're some VIP points person or something. So you're getting pushed out of your, your room. You got to sit down in a, you know, in a, in downstairs, in the general area or the coffee shop or the bar. Logged into the guest network, you know, going through this, you know, Ticketmaster process of refresh, refresh, refresh. Oh, I'm in. Quick register. Oh, okay, okay. Oh, I got to, I'm in queue, you know. And then what they do once you get in queue and they say, okay, you are placed in the queue, they text you your status and then they say, okay, be at the DMV, you know, in the next 90 minutes and you'll be served, you know, stuff like that. So people need to be aware of that. In a way it's an improvement because you don't have to wait in line. But the downsides is now you got more privacy issues you need to be aware of and so forth.
A
And with that, Dallas, I think we're going to wind it down here. The website is privacypost.IO and I'll give you the final thoughts.
B
Yeah, so one more thing I wanted to, I've been throwing a lot out on this one, but what I want to talk about, even that's third party knowledge. Some people say, you know, everything I say is no third party knowledge. No third party knowledge, no third party knowledge. And people say, well, what about you? You have access to the, the emails and the, the inside of the mail and stuff like that. And what I say about that is we aren't third party. We are second party. We are having, we are conversing with you, the client. You have engaged our services. And just like when you text somebody or when you signal somebody or you email somebody, they're not the third party. You're trying to keep your, that, that private. You, you've already established that communication with them. You are assuming that that's a private conversation. You don't want other unknown parties, unknown entities to be able to swoop up that conversation without your knowledge and do whatever with it. So there is no third party knowledge in anything that we do as far as your mail, your contents, our communications, it's all first and second party.
A
So if you're interested in pursuing a PMB address, being a Nomad, you can start, of course, with escapethetechnocracy.com, we have a course on Nomad residency. That was my knowledge. That was also Dallas's knowledge. He's obviously very knowledgeable, as you can tell, and then you'll probably end up either way@privacypost.IO to get this very handy service. So thank you once again, Dallas, and we'll talk to you next time. Hey, thanks for listening. I could really use your help. Real quick if you could share this episode with someone, engage with me, leave a review anywhere. This helps me to break the technocratic shadow banning that is happening with my brand. And of course, if you really want to escape the technocracy, go to escapethetechnocracy.com privacy tutorial, series, books, newsletters, consulting, and of course you can leave a donation. Thank you very much. Sam it.
Release Date: July 27, 2026
Host: Gabriel Custodiet
Guest: Dallas, Founder of PrivacyPost.io
In this episode, Gabriel Custodiet reconnects with Dallas, the founder of PrivacyPost.io and a leading expert on South Dakota nomad residency. Together, they explore advanced privacy tactics for Americans seeking physical address privacy, practical updates and pitfalls around nomad residency, and the evolution of PrivacyPost.io’s offerings. Dallas provides deep, firsthand insight into the legal, logistical, and strategic considerations surrounding use of PMB (Private Mailbox) addresses, car insurance, W2 employment, and the shifting terrain of state compliance.
[01:13–04:00]
“...you have the ability to have an address in a place that you've maybe only visited for one day...a great option for Americans to have physical privacy.”
— Gabriel [03:11]
“You’re not going to find this person. They were here one day...” — Dallas [04:00]
[05:25–10:25]
[10:25–14:48]
“What do you think about PrivacyPost? ...they like to see a service stick around for a while.” — Gabriel [10:45]
“Privacy comes with a premium and a lot of the automations we can't do so that requires more work, more manual process. And there, there comes a cost with that.” — Dallas [14:48]
[16:23–20:24]
“...when I see people who are struggling, struggling, struggling with getting banking...and then they follow our plan with the enhanced residency...cards start arriving, verifications...all of a sudden...they got their banking taken care of.” — Dallas [18:48]
[19:59–21:44]
“Do not use your family's address...You're going to get all sorts of mail...You might get under the tax net..." — Gabriel [19:59]
[21:44–26:55]
“Your agent represents you, not the insurance company...their primary motivation is to sell policies...not...to pay out a claim.” — Dallas [24:43]
[27:13–30:37]
“I guarantee you...there’s no other provider out there that are going to tell you these caveats and these risks and the truth about it.” — Dallas [30:22]
[30:37–36:08]
“In a way it’s an improvement because you don’t have to wait in line. But...you got more privacy issues you need to be aware of...” — Dallas [35:47]
[36:16–37:27]
On PMB Effectiveness for Privacy:
“You’re not going to find this person. They were here one day...They stayed at Tower Campground...They’re nowhere to...You won’t find them.”
— Dallas [04:00]
On the Cost of Privacy:
“Privacy comes with a premium and a lot of the automations we can't do so that requires...more manual process.”
— Dallas [14:48]
On the Risks of Using Family Addresses:
“Do not use your family's address...It's not a good idea. You might merge your business with their business in a way that you don’t want to.”
— Gabriel [19:59]
On Insurance Reality:
“Your agent’s primary motivation is to sell policies. And they're going to sell policies by removing as many obstacles as possible...People who think, ‘I’ve been using my PMB address for five years, no problem, man’ — probably because you’ve never had a claim.”
— Dallas [24:43–25:32]
On Service Transparency:
“I guarantee you, Gabriel, there's no other provider out there that are going to tell you these caveats and these risks and the truth about it.”
— Dallas [30:22]
Dallas delivers exceptionally candid and practical guidance for anyone seeking to use South Dakota residency as a privacy shield, especially digital nomads and expats. The conversation drills into the real-world friction points—legal, financial, and technical—of living outside the system, and why 'automation' in privacy services often equals higher exposure. Transparency, service resilience, and a willingness to share uncomfortable truths distinguish Dallas and PrivacyPost.io in a crowded market.
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