> Why there is no DNS for the paper mail? Because thousands of years ago, there was no DNS, nor network communications systems, yet there was "the mail". Acco

> Why there is no DNS for the paper mail? Because thousands of years ago, there was no DNS, nor network communications systems, yet there was "the mail". According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail#History) the concept of a courier service may date back to the Egyptians: "The first documented use of an organized courier service for the dissemination of written documents is in Egypt, where Pharaohs used couriers for the dissemination of their decrees in the territory of the State (2400 BCE). The earliest surviving piece of mail is also Egyptian, dating to 255 BCE." Wind that forward to today, and "mail delivery" is largely the same as then. A letter/package has an address inscribed upon it indicating a physical location, and a courier carries it to that location and delivers it. Among things that have has changed are the transportation mode, and the accuracy of the address location. But the overall high level operation remains very similar. Because it is an age-old system that still functions similarly to how it did before computers and computer networks it is likely no one has thought the concept of an "address lookup" for the historic "mail system" was a necessary add-on.