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previous tenant keeps getting parcels delivered here

28 replies

gallifrey · 01/02/2012 09:31

and she moved out in september! I've had about 6 things delivered here for her, you would have thought she'd have changed her bloody address by now!
I have no way of contacting her and don't know where she lives. This morning just had someone knock on the door again, so this time I refused to take it in as it wasn't for me and told the delivery guy she had moved. This was an identical parcel to the one that came a couple of weeks ago, she has obviously complained that she didn't get that one so they have sent out another one to the wrong address again!!!!

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theincredibequeenofwands · 01/02/2012 09:34

You'll have to keep refusing them I'm afraid!

Maybe tell the post office and see if they can prevent parcels addressed to her from coming to your address.

squeakytoy · 01/02/2012 09:37

If you have no way of contacting her, what is happening to the parcels?

mousymouseprice · 01/02/2012 09:37

just don't accept deliveris.
it's not your business to take them in.

DamnBamboo · 01/02/2012 09:38

Just keep refusing them!
They can't make you take them.

mousymouseprice · 01/02/2012 09:38

yanbu btw, very annoying

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gallifrey · 01/02/2012 09:58

the parcels that have been delivered here for her are stacked up in the garage just in case she comes round one day to get them!!

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boredandrestless · 01/02/2012 10:02

Yes just keep refusing them. Don't the ones in your garage have a return address or a company name on?

I've had a few near misses with paypal using my old address but have always managed to contact the seller/manufacturer before they've had chance to dispatch. I can see it can easily be done though when ordering online.

boredandrestless · 01/02/2012 10:02

Don't landlord or letting agent have a forwarding address?

plutocrap · 01/02/2012 10:04

Actually, I think Return to Sender is a better thing to do than stack up the parcels.

Sorry, I know it could mean more hassle for you, until your refusal to accept delivery takes effect....

Thankgodforcaffeine · 01/02/2012 10:05

Do you think there could be anything good in the parcels? Maybe you could open them if she hasn't collected them after a reasonable amount of time?

And then you could come back and tell us what was in them :o

CaveMum · 01/02/2012 10:17

The landlord/letting agent should at least have a phone number for her, if not a forwarding address.

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gallifrey · 01/02/2012 10:21

lol thankgodforcaffeine I've been so tempted to open then I really don't know how on earth I've managed not to!!

My point being that she is ordering them now, and they are being sent to an address she doesn't live in anymore, you would have thought she would have realised by now by the fact she isn't receiving any of them!

I'm not going to accept them anymore that's for sure. Bloody annoying though when the baby has just got off to sleep and someone rings the doorbell. Not so bad if it's a parcel for me, but for someone else is just a real pisser :(

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gallifrey · 01/02/2012 10:22

Actually I've just opened one that came the other day and one the same was just delivered again today (which I refused) it's a calendar.

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JustHecate · 01/02/2012 10:37

Keep refusing. "Sorry, nobody lives here by that name."

Aren't you liable for it if you accept it? Particularly if you have to sign for it?

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gallifrey · 01/02/2012 10:40

I haven't had to sign for one yet!

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JustHecate · 01/02/2012 10:42

ah ok. You probably already said that Blush Grin

Could they be freebies rather than something she's ordering?

Pagwatch · 01/02/2012 10:43

Don't accept them. If they get left then take them back to the post office or put them back in the post marked 'return to sender . Addressee not known at this address'

Don't open them.

juneau · 01/02/2012 10:43

Why did you accept any of them? I wouldn't take anything for someone who doesn't live at my address.

Dillydollydaydream · 01/02/2012 10:47

I had a parcel try to be delivered yesterday for the lady who used to live here- 6 years ago!!
I refused to sign for it, it was a box with Elemis printed on though so shame I wasn't out - they normally put them in garage then!

plutocrap · 01/02/2012 10:47

Oh, so they're getting inside the house without your say-so? I've had a few things mis-delivered by hand, which was very annoying, as it was a lot of different people getting it wrong. I seem to have solved it, though, by putting a note on the door right by the letter slot. You could be even more specific in your note, naming the person you won't take parcels for (after all, why worry about breaching her privacy; she doesn't live there anymore, so no-one can apply for credit in her name at the address, and she doesn't seem to have been too careful about having her parcels fall into the wrong hands, if she is ordering parcels to her old address!)

AlexandraMary · 01/02/2012 10:49

The previous tenant here never set up a redirect so we get at least half a dozen pieces of mail every day. Bloody annoying. We have a box in the hall and we drop it off at the letting agency once a month or so.

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gallifrey · 01/02/2012 10:49

we order a lot of stuff online, so when something comes I tend to just take it in and look at it afterwards. Will be a bit more on the ball now and look at the name while the delivery man is still here

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LadyClariceCannockMonty · 01/02/2012 10:51

Does your landlord/letting agency have a new address for her?

Miette · 01/02/2012 10:52

You need to always return them. Mark them with "Return to sender. Addressee no longer lives here." That way the person sending them will get the message that they are no longer there and can email the person for a new address. If you keep them they have no way of knowing.

Thankgodforcaffeine · 01/02/2012 10:54

A calendar. Mmmh. A bit disappointing...

OP, how about you open another one? There might be better stuff in the next one :o