We should mask physical addresses used for mail, packages, parcels, and shipments. The sender’s knowledge of the receiver’s physical address becomes unnecessary by creating a database that associates a unique ID with each physical address. By implementing this approach, we can safeguard the receiver’s privacy while streamlining processes such as change of address notifications when relocating.
Masking the receiver’s address would also make reconnecting with long-lost contacts easy even if they’ve moved or changed names.
The details of how this DB would be implemented, managed, or maintained are beyond the scope of this article but I can explore them in a later post.