To be getting a bit annoyed with the previous owners of our house

[Ginandtonicandamassageplease]

This is only a tiny thing and I think I should probably just let it go but I really wish they would redirect their bloody mail!! The letters don't bother me but there seems to be at least one company still registered to our address and now that Christmas is coming again they are ordering parcels which get left outside my door which are not for me so I have to go to the flipping Post Office to send them back again to the sender. GGGRRRRRRRRR!!

Ok, I feel better now!

[CokeFan]

We had mail redirected for 12 months after we moved. Some things slipped through, but the people who bought the house kindly just forwarded them on.

Since the redirect ended they've also forwarded a couple of letters on from a bank (who shall remain nameless). It seems that they have more than one "address system". We did change our address (in person in the branch and by letter) as soon as we moved but for some reason they kept sending statements for one account to our old address. We had to close the account in the end. We checked that they had our correct address at the time. Guess where the closing statement went?

In our old house we always used to get a card from Aunt Flossie and Uncle William - no idea who that was for.

We don't have a forwarding address for the woman who we bought our current house from (and she only had a redirect for herself and her children, not her ex husband). The house has a name and a number so lots of things slipped through and I've had to take all their post in to the estate agents. TBH I've quite enjoyed making the estate agents continue to work for her because they were totally ineffective while the sale was going through.

[amarylisnightandday]

Yanbu. Old remnants only live across the road but I get piles of stuff for them and their family of 25 different names. After the first 3 months everything went in the recycling until she start harassing me because her driving license was sent here. Then her bloody son harassed and whined at me in the street.
Recycling bin bulging.......

Ps her driving docs didn't ever turn up here I'm not that mean.

[Sabriel]

We rented for nearly a year while trying to sell our old house. The previous tenants didn't put a redirection on and we had stacks of mail for them, including personal stuff and bank statements. They'd left us their forwarding address - obviously to save money on redirection

What really took the biscuit was when we had the phone connected and were plagued with phone calls for them, including her father and his mother . After a few months I was getting quite short with their callers and took to writing in big letters on all their redirected mail Please tell your contacts you have moved!

We had to pay for a year's redirection for both addresses, and still stuff got sent on by the new people rather than Royal mail.

We realised last week we hadn't told the insurance companies we'd moved and of course all of them send a confirmation letter to your new address and your old one, so both houses will be having our mail again for a bit.

[Ishtar2410]

We had this for around 3 years after we moved in - not only mail, but also a loan shark and bailiffs.

There was also a long-rumbling situation with Barclaycard, where they kept sending statements to the old owner at this address, but wouldn't accept that we weren't that person! We rang half a dozen times and still received statements - I think it was only when the debt collectors got involved that someone actually started paying attention.

My favourite was when the son turned up looking for his car tax reminder - 9 months after they'd moved. Was most pissed off when I told him I'd returned it to DVLA - "How am I supposed to tax my car then?". I couldn't quite see how this was actually my problem!

[Kewcumber]

I still get parcels, letters from DVLC, tax people. Now send them all back with MOVED printed clearly. Doesn't have any effect.

[MsFanackerPants]

In my old flat some friends of the old tenants turned up to stay the weekend. At least with post you can just shove it in the bin postbox.

[LeepyTime]

I have a solution which I have started implementing. Basically, write "Return to Sender" and then on the back write "Please send any future correspondence C/O Estate Agents/Whoever you bought the house from". That way,even if you don't have a forwarding address, the post will now all be sent to the estate agent who will have to deal with it/pressure the owners to change their details.

For the record, we have notified our change of address lots of times with a certain bank and also the Child trust Fund, and letters are still going to the old address 2 years later! Don't know what to do about that!

[wowfudge]

When we moved house three years ago we got stacks of post for the previous occupants and I was going to take it to the estate agents for them to send on or to be collected when DP said, 'Why would you do that - return it all to sender. If they can't be bothered to provide a forwarding address, why should we bother to get their mail to them?' They had left the place in a right state when they moved out too so I was happy to shove it all back in the post box. Well I'm glad I did because over the next few months we received several letters addressed to 'the occupier' because they had not paid any of their utility bills and there were several debt collection agencies after them.