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to be so riled up about someone opening my post?

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Oakmaiden · 03/01/2014 13:24

Because I am fuming.

The situation. I moved house about 6 months ago, and arranged a 12 months postal redirection. Most of my post comes direct to my new house, but the redirection picks up the dregs that I might have missed. However - I did forget to change the address on my mobile phone (probably because they don't generally write to me!).

I needed to upgrade my contract over Christmas, and when I enquired ?I was told that to change my address and then upgrade my contract would take over a month - but if ?I did it the other way round - upgrade and then change my address - then there would be no problem. Fine - strictly not completely ethically shiny, but since I have no intention of defaulting on the payment there is not really a problem. And I have since changed the address on my new contract.

However, the provider has sent a letter addressed to me at my old address. Which for some reason was delivered there. And the new occupier took it upon themselves to open my f*ing letter and to phone me (my number was inside the letter to enquire why I has a phone addressed to their address. I did explain the situation, but she was not pleasant. When I pointed out it was actually illegal to open a letter addressed to someone else she said "you will have to take legal action against me then".

And I am fuming because 1, how dare she open my letter, 2, how dare she phone me using something contained in the letter, and 3, just how bloody dare she?

I am actually shaking...

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Oakmaiden · 03/01/2014 19:16

No I didn't say anything of the sort, Caitlin. I said they could identify me for credit rating purposes using the old address. It wouldn't change my credit rating at all, because it is still all linked to me. The ONLY reason I used the old address is because Orange said it would take a month to change their records to the new one.

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DoYouNeedAWahhmbulance · 03/01/2014 19:21

Well done for accepting you were the one in the wrong and not her, oakmaiden. Never an easy thing to do, especially on a public forum. Obviously it was wrong to use the old address but I can see why you did it without thinking at the time, don't beat yourself up about it

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