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Mail/Shipping question
Just Like That
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Does the person to whom a letter or package is addressed have to be a resident of the address to which it is sent? For example, could I mail a letter addressed to Santa Claus to my grandmother's house? Or order a package from Amazon to be shipped to Abraham Lincoln at my cousin's address? (No, I'm not going to do these things, just using examples..)
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What the hell?
They are probably breaking some federal law or something. Typically, the postman's job is to ensure that the parcel or envelope crosses the threshold into the property to which it is addressed. After that point, it isn't their business who it is addressed to or who opens it. There might be exceptions for mail that requires a signature of receipt but even in those circumstances so long as it is apparent that whoever is signing for it is a resident or employee at the address is isn't usually necessary for the signee to be the named addressee.
We get mail addressed to people who don't even live in our house all the time - typically people who lived here before us. Our postman knows us and no doubt knows that a fair amount of the mail he delivers to us isn't actually intended for us, but it's got our address on it so he has to deliver it.
That's the ticket.
I did however have a minor issue with that when I sent something to a friend via UPS. When she went to pick it up, the girl at the UPS center didn't understand what "C/O" meant. She refused to release the package because the first name on it was mine, and my friend didn't have matching ID. Had I simply used "c/o E's Friend" I would have been fine.
I'm sure it's post-person specific, mine frequently delivers all kinds of things that are addressed to the previous owner without any problems.
It's mostly junk, but I got some shit that looks like Student Loan information, so there's that.
Just have your friend add the name to their mailbox temporarily next to theirs.
Pretty sure that's a rule for multi-unit places.
My apartment building doesn't even have a place on the mailbox for a name, it only has the apartment number.