Computer process (system/service) to facilitate shopping and delivery by allowing two parties or more than two parties to exchange (send and receive) physical items by using an email address (or a public identifier) of a receiving party and without the need to know a mailing/delivery address. A party could be a business or a consumer.

摘要

A process, method, system, service to facilitate shopping, delivery and physical items exchange between businesses and/or individuals, this is achieved by allowing a sender to use an email address/a public identifier to send a physical item(s) to a receiver instead of using an actual delivery/mailing address of the receiver. In one embodiment a sender can send a physical item(s) he/she owns or has access to via a delivery entity (such as a delivery courier(s), ordinary mail services, etc) by using the email address/public identifier of the receiver. In another embodiment, the sender can choose/purchase a physical item(s) from a business and send it using the receiver's email address/public identifier, where it gets delivered to the actual mailing/delivery address by a delivery entity (delivery entity could be the business itself, a delivery courier(s), ordinary mail services, etc). In other embodiments, the sender can purchase and send a gift certificate(s) that the receiver can use to choose a physical item(s) to be sent using the email address/public identifier instead of the actual mailing/delivery address that the delivery entity delivers to. The sender (a business or an individual) can also use own email address/public identifier instead of the actual mailing/pickup address when sending a physical item(s). The sender can send a physical item(s) to himself/herself, another individual(s) or a business/businesses using the email address/public identifier of the receiver (or using the email addresses/public identifiers if there are multiple receivers).