Patent ID: 8812373

Claim:
A method of enabling customers to anonymously purchase items from vendors via electronic drafts for delivery to an address without divulging the delivery address to the vendors, the method comprising: retrieving, with one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems associated with a financial institution, a customer's financial information and delivery address based on receiving an encrypted unique identifier for the customer and authenticating the customer having caused a draft to be executed for payment of at least one of a purchase price of the item and a shipping cost by encrypting at least a portion of an identification data provided by the customer and successfully matching the encrypted identification data with the stored encrypted unique identifier; assigning, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems associated with the financial institution, a package code to the item based on honoring a draft presented by the vendor for payment of the item only when the customer is successfully authenticated, the package code being independent of indicia of an order associated with the draft and the retrieved deliver address; communicating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems associated with the financial institution, only the package code from the financial institution to the vendor, the vendor affixing the package code to the package, and communicating, with the one or more processors associated with the one or more computer systems associated with the financial institution, the package code and the associated delivery address into a shipper database of a shipper hosted on a portable electronic device equipped with a package code scanner and a shipping label printer such that the shipper picks up the item from the vendor and prints out a shipping label with the shipping label printer of the portable electronic device for the package in response to scanning the package code affixed to the package with a delivery address stored in the shipper database hosted on the portable electronic device that matches the package code affixed to the package.