Has Josh Eldred at NMLP been background-checked?

NMLP is operated by one human — Josh Eldred — out of a public warehouse address. Donors verify legitimacy through multiple independent paths:

• NM Secretary of State business registration — NMLP is registered as a New Mexico business; the registration is publicly searchable at the NM Secretary of State website.
• Public warehouse address — 5445 Edith Blvd NE, Unit A, Albuquerque, NM 87107. The warehouse is at a real Google Maps address with a real outdoor donation box visible from the street.
• Public phone number — 702-496-4214 has been Josh's contact for the operation since 2024. Call or text any time.
• Public Google Business Profile with 5.0-star rating — verified Google reviews from named Albuquerque-area donors and partners.
• Documented partner relationships — see the donation recipients profiles for the four named institutional partners (APS Title I, UNM Children's Hospital reading program, Sunflower Meadow Park LFL, La Vida Llena Retirement Community).
• Public donation archive — the archive documents specific books that came through donation, with bibliographic detail and onward routing.
• Press kit at /press — for journalists doing additional vetting.

NMLP doesn't carry formal third-party background-check certification (no industry body provides it for single-operator donation services). The verification model is full operational transparency rather than a credential. See the verification page for full detail.

The paper trail you can pull without asking me

Every claim above has an independent record. The New Mexico Secretary of State business search returns the registration — for-profit, owner Josh Eldred, operating since 2024 — with no DBA chain behind it. The Google Business Profile holds a 5.0 rating from public, dated reviews on real accounts, each answered by the owner; a separate Yelp listing, independently moderated, shows the same name, address, and phone. The operation carries liability insurance covering both the pickup work and the warehouse. And the partnership claims photograph themselves: APS Title I's own logistics van — number 2404 — has been documented at the warehouse dock mid-load, which anyone can verify with APS directly. The drive-by test works too: 5445 Edith Blvd NE is a real unit with the donation box visible from the street.

What this operation deliberately is not

Knowing the edges is part of verification. NMLP is not a bonded mover or junk hauler — no furniture, appliances, mattresses, paint, or construction debris, and I will name the Albuquerque companies that do that work well. It is not a high-end estate liquidator: when a four-figure rare book surfaces, the honest move is a referral to an auction house or ABAA dealer, and that referral happens. It is not a data operation — nothing is collected beyond the logistics of your pickup, and nothing is sold or used for marketing. And there is no formal third-party certification for one-person donation services, because no industry body issues one; the substitute is that every operational fact sits in public view. The complete checklist lives at verify NMLP, with the press kit at /press for anyone vetting further.