I own a house in a terrace, the next street has the same name but is a place.
Over the summer we had several tradesmen arrive at our house with kitchens, windows and so on. We dutifully corrected their mistake and sent them around the corner as we have done with post and take-aways over the last few years.
In Late summer a woman arrived at the door wanting to see the house, so I told her 'oh you probably mean place' but before sending her round the corner asked to see the letter she had. It was from our local housing association and had my address and postcode. So I called the association and they said they would correct the information on their databases.
A week or so later we had a letter from TalkTalk saying they would be connecting the internet to our house. 'Oh no you won't' I said and called them to point out that an error had been made. Woman with letter had obviously given out the address on the letter to the utility companies. So... I called the housing association to let them know and they were all 'oh well our system definitely says place not terrace' to which I replied 'well it would because I called you to ask you to change it but your tennant still seems unaware of the mistake'.
So... FFwd a couple of months and we have had several letters from talktalk saying she is in arrears (We did post a few into her letterbox but started opening when it became obvious they wouldn't stop) and now a County Court thing saying she is in arrears to a Nursery and that the Baliffs will be sent.
The Housing Association say it's not their mistake (Despite the months we had of builders knocking the door before the tenant moved in) and that they have told the tennant to let people know she has got the address wrong.
Anyway - sorry for the ramble but I am not BU to think that actually the sodding housing association is at fault here (apart from running up the debts) and they should be busting their arses to fix it?!
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