Patent ID: 8086546

Claim:
A method, comprising: an enterprise packaging one or more items as a package for eventual shipment to a delivery address; said enterprise selecting, by one or more computers, a destination geographical area to which to ship said package, wherein said destination geographical area includes multiple delivery addresses to which said package is deliverable; said enterprise shipping said package to said destination geographical area via a carrier that is distinct from said enterprise, wherein said shipping includes specifying said destination geographical area but purposefully not completely specifying any delivery address at time of shipment, such that at time of shipment, said package is deliverable to said destination geographical area but is intentionally not deliverable to any delivery address, and wherein said shipping comprises said enterprise physically tendering said package to said carrier; and after said shipping has commenced and after said package has left a location at which said one or more items were packaged, and while said package is in transit, said enterprise completely specifying, via one or more computers, said delivery address for said package to said carrier, such that as a result of said enterprise completely specifying said delivery address to said carrier, said package becomes deliverable to said delivery address by said carrier.