If you have the receipt, and ID showing your picture and the name under which I ordered the device, and can receive physical mail at the address to which the device was shipped, and/or at the address listed on the cloud account that we both know the device effectively forced me to create, then yes.

> at the address listed on the cloud account

From my reading of the post, this piece is missing. The blogger doesn’t recognize the iCloud account _currently_ associated with the device.

If you have access to the apple ID that paid for a device, sure, why not.