It would be super-great if that's how it worked, but it's not. There is no send-to-this-person-at-this-address API to see if it's OK to do so. There is no national database of who-lives-where that's in any way unified -- except maybe at the NSA -- and if there is, it's certainly not shared publicly.
Everyone's software doesn't check names in any way whatsoever. I could send a package to:
President Abe Lincoln
1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW
Washington DC 20500
FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, everyone's software would eat that right up and spit out a label. That's because the name portion of the address usually doesn't mean anything. The White House is where it is irrespective of the person receiving the mail there.
Furthermore nearly all of the time this isn't an issue. The vast majority of all mail and packages go to the right address. People tend not to have items shipped to anyone but themselves or perhaps relatives. That's the reason there's a law that writes an exception to normal mail delivery only in the case where someone's doing it as a business (a CMRA).
And the only reason there's an exception there is that some (not all) CMRA owners 10-15 years ago didn't seem to care about preventing fraud and enough people got scammed to where it was a problem. It's expensive to scrutinize the incoming mail enough and that meant that the people who didn't scrutinize had higher profits so there was no corrective feedback through profits and losses. The only way to fix that was to make it a legal issue instead of an economic one.
Everyone's software doesn't check names in any way whatsoever. I could send a package to: President Abe Lincoln 1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW Washington DC 20500
FedEx, UPS, USPS, DHL, everyone's software would eat that right up and spit out a label. That's because the name portion of the address usually doesn't mean anything. The White House is where it is irrespective of the person receiving the mail there.
Furthermore nearly all of the time this isn't an issue. The vast majority of all mail and packages go to the right address. People tend not to have items shipped to anyone but themselves or perhaps relatives. That's the reason there's a law that writes an exception to normal mail delivery only in the case where someone's doing it as a business (a CMRA).
And the only reason there's an exception there is that some (not all) CMRA owners 10-15 years ago didn't seem to care about preventing fraud and enough people got scammed to where it was a problem. It's expensive to scrutinize the incoming mail enough and that meant that the people who didn't scrutinize had higher profits so there was no corrective feedback through profits and losses. The only way to fix that was to make it a legal issue instead of an economic one.