Learn English – What do you call the person whom you ship your product to

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This person receives your product but they MAY or MAY NOT be your customer (maybe someone who can deliver it to your customer like their relative or friends but not some delivery company). Also, their details are added to under 'Shipping Details' by the customer maybe because your customer doesn't have a permanent address yet.

What do you call this person? Some names I thought of were 'receiver' or 'referee' or 'trustee' but I don't think they're accurate enough in business terms.

Best Answer

If this person actually has their name and address as the "Ship To" address then they may be referred to as the addressee (the one to whom it is addressed).

Alternatively, the package may be addressed to your customer in the care of some intermediary.

From Wiktionary:

Care of, usually abbreviated as c/o on envelopes, signifies an intermediary* who is responsible for transferring a piece of mail between the postal system and the final addressee. For example, when the addressee has no standard address, is under a corporate mail system, or is being manually forwarded mail sent to a more accessible location.

* emphasis mine