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Careful with mailing physical things via the USPS to different names at your address. You might run afoul of mail fraud laws.

• evincarofautumn 9y ago
  You could use always use plausible nicknames. Humans will tolerate them, but exact-matching computer systems won’t. For example, if you were Nathaniel William such-and-such, you’d have a large supply: Nat, Nath, Natty, Nathan, Niel, Neil, Thaniel, N. W., William, Will, Willy, Bill, Billy, Liam…
  • stevekemp 9y ago
    I've had a few recent discussions with various people at post-offices, here in Finland. The counter staff repeatedly complain that parcels are addressed to "Steve" not "Steven" (which is the name on my official ID.) It's a very weird situation to be in, as somebody from the UK where such things just don't matter.
    • cm2187 9y ago
      I don't see how it would even matter. What if you host a friend for a few weeks at your place. Isn't that friend allowed to receive mail?
      • lmm 9y ago
        In many countries there are super-serious laws about mail being delivered to the addressed recipient and not opened or interfered with by anyone else, from the days when it was the only form of official communication and used for matters of life and death.
      • Sharlin 9y ago
        It's not about matching the address to the legal resident, but matching the recipient name to the name in your official ID when you go to a post office to pick up a parcel. That is, authentication. Letters and small enough parcels are delivered directly to your address; with those the recipient name doesn't really matter except for possibly disambiguating an incomplete/incorrect address at the mail sorting center.