What works in their favor is they have a verified database of every address in the US. For this purpose that is, effectively, your account.
USPS gets points for practicality and execution, but is yet another service that performs zero email address verification and ends up with idiots that don't know their own email sending me their info.
It's a little problematic if, say, four roommates share an address.
USPS does have ways to validate your address, for example when you set up mail forwarding or the daily digest thing.
https://www.usps.com/business/web-tools-apis/address-informa...