Post arriving at my house for old owners 2 years after moving in

[nowwearefour]

In 2009 we bought the house we live in from an elderly couple who had lived here for 40 years. They put a re-direct on their post for 3 months. Since the redirect ended, they have been turning up on our doorstep or phoning wondering when we are going to drop their post round/ they can come and collect (and make comments about what the hosue looks like now). I am sick of it ! I started to 'return to sender' but they phoned me up and asked me not to. They claim they are telling all their key people they have moved but we are still getting SO MUCH STUFF! we put our re-direct on for 2 years and runs out in a few days. The woman called me today to accuse me of binning important doctor's appointment letters (I havent) and to tell me not to bin anything, not even junk mail. She was not pleasant. I am minded just to bin everything from now on. i havent so far as i am trying to be kind and periodically i let my neighbour have the post as she sees her quite often. anyway my neighbour told her it is a pain (which it is) and now she has got the right hump! she claims she drops te post in her new house to their old owners once a week. i havent got time for that sort of malarkey ! WWYD?

Mark everything return to sender and put it in the box. It is not your responsibility to keep and redeliver the mail to her. If anything is from a bank take it in to them and tell them she doesn't live at the address anymore and to remove your address from the records.

i have started to do the return to sender thing. i will be firm as they are taking the ***!

Sorry to resurrect this after nearly 9 years, but I've just been searching for this very same problem, and get this..... the people who we bought the house off 3 years ago moved only a few houses along the same street, but have never had the curteousy to take a redirection.

For a very short time I gave them their mail, then I started opening it and ringing each company, but they still continued to send it, so I moved on to shredding it and posting the "shreddings" (is that even a word?) through their letterbox, but they obviously don't care, especially by the fact they appear to owe money to several institutions, so now i just bin it without even opening.

FWIW, a BiL of mine had an important hospital appt letter sent to an address he’d moved from 17 years previously - despite having had several sent to his correct address in the meantime.

Luckily the new owners forwarded it.

It was an NHS admin cock up. How on earth they hadn’t deleted his previous address goodness knows.

Re post still arriving, I had a flat where post kept coming for previous owner who I was pretty certain had left the country - he’d left no forwarding address with anyone.

It soon became clear that he owed money all over - phone had been cut off, utilities not paid, etc. Return to sender didn’t stop them coming, so worried about bailiffs turning up, eventually I started opening them. Utilities, credit card bills, you name it. About £25k worth.

If poss I phoned all of them, or else wrote, to explain the situation.
I had to send a copy of my council tax bill to about 12 debt collectors etc. but they did all back off.

What really pisses me off is that I bet he could return to the UK tomorrow and nothing would happen.

so I moved on to shredding it and posting the "shreddings" (is that even a word?) through their letterbox

That’s just unnecessary and quite unhinged.