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by Symbiote 2262 days ago
Someone working somewhere "temporarily" (however long that may be) and living in company-provided accommodation, or where that is more secure than private accommodation.

- A politician with a state-provided residence in the capital city.

- A soldier living in a barracks

- A teacher living at a boarding school during the term, or someone very senior at a university with an on-campus house/apartment. Or a PhD student.

- A vicar or priest living at the vicarage

- A diplomat or embassy staff posted abroad

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Those are good examples, though in most of them it's still clearly a residence, not a workplace. So I would expect there to be protocols in place for securely forwarding items which are personal in nature— particularly since this is not a tech problem, it's something people in these kinds of roles would have been dealing with decades ago.

Certainly for myself many years ago as a university student, I acknowledged that my lodgings were temporary and had anything of any importance at all sent to my parents' address.