I have tested this. If you try to send mail to a toon of yours that has the SAME first name, the check stops there and prevents you from sending mail, even if the last name is different. I made a new toon with a different first name and was able to send mail to myself. Blizz will need to update the name check to check BOTH the first and last names.
Same, however, i sent it to an alt with a dif name. Then sent it to my other toon and it sent it to my main. Terd priest and terd paladin and terd druid, i tried to send it to the paladin but it went to the priest. same concept as what you said. another example of how its messed up.
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Same here. Other players have mailed “Myfirstname Abc” and it actually gets mailed to “Myfirstname Xyz”
Have a feeling this is also related to some settings not saving like chat window filters/channels and addon settings.
Related: https://us.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow/t/wow-forever-self-mail-bug-same-first-name/2353657/7
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I think all of mail is busted.. except money from the AH. 
A friend sent me mail but it never arrived. I posted about it in the Forever dev forum, but they tried sending some mail to both of my characters, none arrived. We’re bnet friends, in game friends, and we were in a party.
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You also can’t send it to other random people who happen to have the same first name as you, and get the same ‘you can’t send mail to yourself’ message.
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FIX: send mail cod from the toon u want the stuff on
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After not being able to send mail from penny ling to penny ming, I tried sending it to a completely different name, and then send it to ming, however it instead went to ling.
Ive been fortunate enough to not have an issue occur.. YET, with sending mail to my alts.
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The WOWF mail system MUST always use the complete firstname + SPACE + lastname to find recipients.
When the mail system ignores last names and finds something it is clearly a bug.
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Thanks. I did make sure they sent it to the right character name, especially after the first time, and we ran the two tests.
But the issue appears to have been fixed. At least between my alts, I sent myself some mail again and received it. Since then, it appears to be working normally. 
To an alt with the same first name?
Did someone check the auction house for this?
It will use WoW mail in the end as well and these mails should end up at the person who bought the stuff.
No, but that wasn’t my issue. I simply wasn’t receiving mail from another person, to any alt (different names), nor could I sent it to myself.
Now, both appear to be working.
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I have received all of my AH mail, fwiw.
seems fixed after yesterdays patch
I have this issue but I don’t have characters with the same first name. I am missing mail from 2 characters now with a lot of stuff. Just gone- I assume someone out there shares my first name and got a grand ol’ welcome to beta care package.
I have a different issue with the mail system not recognizing my alts/characters as the same faction. It wasn’t an issue yesterday but today when I attempted to send my alt some cloth mats for Tailoring, it displyed “Target is unfriendly”.
So, not sure what’s going on however, I sent the items to my other alt I regularly send items to with no issues.
I also researched that the issue could be that if a different person has the same first name it conflicts with the mail system. Not sure how that’s possible when the name I have was able to send and receive items a day ago without issues. But today has had those issues. Even manually typing out my alts name and try to send the same items again, “Target is Unfriendly”. As for now, I’m just going to send the items to my other character and have that character put items in my personal bank.
For clarity’s sake this was after the mail system patch too
Mine has been fine, but now its happening to me lol has there been any fix to this?