Post for previous owner...nuissance

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A year on and we are stioll getting post for our previous owner. In the past I have sent it back with "return to sender" but im still getting their correspondance.

I wrote to them this week telling them to change their address details, and have told them that any further post recived by us will either be destroyed or sent to them in an envelope without the postage paid.

ANyone have any ideas on how to get this resolved as im recieving pay slips, bank stuff....bloody annoying!

[squarebear]

Go see the Post Office and ask them to stop delivering it.

[vehelpfulguy]

In this day of identity theft I am amazed that anyone is willing to let mail go to a house they have not lived in for over a year.

It is a good job you are honest as I am sure a dishonest person could use the information sent to you about them to get credit cards, loans etc.

I wonder if they had money problems and dont want people to know about their new address.

The danger is that maybe THEY are taking out loans and credit cards, but using YOUR adress so that YOUR address gets a bad credit rating.

Its a worry.

[vehelpfulguy]

To answer your question.

What I would do is open each letter you get for them, find out who it is from, and then write to that company saying what their new address is.

It is a bit of a pain, but hopefully gradually the mail sent to you for them will reduce, and if they are doing anything dodgy, everyone will know about their new address.

[shylock73]

Just write on the envelope "Not known at this address" and post it back to sender.

[heathfield]

You have my sympathy. Don't destroy it though. It's not yours, and you could get into trouble for interfering with the mail.

[Postdog]

As a postman, my comments.

Squarebears answer, you will probably be required to pay.

Veryhelpfuls is fine - by writing direct you stand a chance of reducing it from regular senders. Mind you, you also run the risk of getting stuff sent to you, having given them your details.

Shylock, yeah this is what you should do, but it won't solve anything. Dead letters don't have the importance they used to and they may get destroyed without the sender being aware. Just one thing, IF you do this, help the postman out by not saving them up and posting them all back in one go.

Heathfield - sorry, don't worry about destroying it if that's what you want to do. Once it is delivered to the correct address, that's it, job done. Once it is through your door, you can do what you want.

As for what I'd do, I'd open them to see if there was anything iffy I should worry about. If there is, deal with it, if not, bin it and think no more about it.

[postmanthe]

Write a letter to your local delivery office saying that only mail for the following people ( give all names including children) should be delivered to ( your full address) instructions should then be place on your walk along with redirections for the postman on your walk. Failing this write N A T A and the date on the item, this should then create work for the postman who then has to kill the letters off he/she should soon get fed up with this. I know i do.

[Snowy Owl]

We are still receiving correspondence for the guy who lived here before we moved in....in 2000! Have to say it has tailed off in the last couple of years, but it's still annoying.

[Muppit]

Given that you have their forwarding address, I'd be really childish about it and go online and sign them up for all of the junk mail / catalogues etc that you can find.

Perhaps sign yourself up to the same things so you can see just how annoying it is!! I signed my brother up to the terratorial army once, he had really annoyed me and I found it hilarious.