Ok so we brought our house in early March and since moving in have continued to get the previous owners post, which we kind of expected. However he has visited us several times to collect mail, which we have been putting back in the post with stickers on as he won't give us his new address and we don't really want him turning up to collect it every few weeks. We did discuss Royal Mail redirect, as this is what we have done but he said it was too expensive 
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Any way this morning we have received an Easter egg for the previous owners child, the package was open so the postie knocked and we took it in amongst other post, he was gone before we realised what it was. The stupid thing is the egg says from Auntie D on the back, so I aibu to expect that in the whole time we have lived here they might have told their own sister they have moved!
Ps: what should I do with the egg we have no forwarding address and after firm words about us not being his own personal mail redirection service I cannot see him coming back any time soon? Also now I know it's chocolate it's taking lots of self restraint not to gobble it up and deny it's existence. 
AIBU?
To think it is no too much to ask...
HeadsDownThumbsUpEveryone · 12/04/2017 11:45
I never considered it might not be an actual aunt, it is a nice looking egg though so she must quite like the child . How long after Easter are we thinking is acceptable should I want to eat it.... 
he's a knob, he can have it redirected for 3 months for under £35 . [.ex postie]
egg ? deny and enjoy
But Purple that's exactly what we have been doing, the stickers are not for his new address we don't know it, so they just say not known at this address and then it all gets shoved into a post box when I go into town.
I did think that Pipsqueak, we had ours done for about 6 months and it still wasn't too much about £45 I think. I feel like I deserve to eat the egg to cope with the stress of the whole situation.
RedSky - I cannot believe that even if you were not close to your siblings the fact you had moved house would not have come up at all in a month. It only takes a 1 quick text to everyone in your phone contacts to tell them your new address.
PinkHeart - Yes it is the biggest example of laziness ever and also frustrating when you have 6 million other things to do that you have to sort out someone else's mail because they are too lazy to complete a 1 page form online to sort it out themselves.
I think I am wavering towards eating the egg, I would post a picture, but then I would not be able to deny it's existence.
We had this too. Previous occupier said he had an important letter and thought it might have came to ours. I told him it hadn't (I'd already returned to sender after seeing it was from the solicitors who did the conveyancing from their end on the actual house sale fgs ). If it's so bloody important tell them your new address then! Didn't hear from him or get anymore post for him after that.
I think you should wait a while before eating it just in case. I'd say that until Sunday would be a reasonable length of time
I've had a Christmas card for the previous occupants every single year, can't send it back as there's no forwarding address.
We've been here 20 years this year.
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