to write 'Still dead!' on this piece of post?

[PeppermintCream]

I know I am, but I'm grieving so please be gentle.

Background: my dad died in November, he lived in a housing association house and we had to clear it v quickly.

So, as soon as we registered his death, I arranged for his post to be redirected to me (live in a different city) so I could deal with the estate.

I printed up some return address labels to return junk mail to sender and have his name removed from the mailing list.

Today, I have received several items of redirected post for the second time, someone at the post office has torn away part of my redirection label to return it to me again.

So, I feel like writing on the redirection la el "still dead" in the hope that I will not receive it again. AIBU?

Just wanting to say how familiar all of this sounds to me, after my father died. I've had that conversation on the phone so many times - it's horrible when they just keep saying 'when can I call back to talk to him' etc. But I could only deal with that when at my mother's house - she's now had 5 years of people asking for my Dad, usually insurance/loans etc - I hate it that she has these people interrupting her day over and over again to remind her of her loss. It feels as though they are incapable or unwilling to list someone as 'no longer available' - so other colleagues just ring and ring instead... Sorry, I am not as good at describing it as you are. But I do empathise. Institutions can be so hurtful. They say it's unintentional, but if it was, then they would have better systems in place to prevent it happening repeatedly.

YADNBU.

My dad has been dead over 10 years. I answered mt mum's phone and had the following converstaion:

'can I speak to Mr Stitch please?'
'I'm sorry he passed away'
'when will he be back'
'he won't he's dead'
'No I need to speak to him so when will he be back'
'Try after the second coming or next zombie outbreak' then I slammed down the phone.

It gets worse, the more I hear some of the insensitive situations some of you have experienced. I am so sorry about your loss and the incompetency some of you have been subjected to.

I'm just riled that in spite of signing up with the preference service and dealing with the redirected mail, someone in royal mail is peeling off my redirection labels and returning the post back to me. Thus upsetting me, and not even giving any of the companies the chance to take dad off their mailing list. What a complete waste of resources etc etc

I think it's really constructive that Mark Barber has come on here offering constructive help