To expect former owners to have mail re-directed?

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We bought and moved in to our new house in September and we are still getting mail for the previous owner. Much of it is concerned with the business that he ran from the house (including loads of junk mail from building suppliers) but there is also personal stuff. He did leave a mobile number for us to phone if there was mail and he (or his wife) would come and pick it up. This obviously means we have to agree a time to be at home for the pick up.

We got our mail re-directed for a year when we moved which isn't difficult so AIBU to expect others to do this?

YANBU. we had ours redirected as welk as sending formal notification to everone we coukd think of...going from rented to Our first owned. vendor plus 18 and 22 yo Dcs... havent told anyone!! to date have had exam certificates (anyone need some alevels?) tax disc bank cards... the lot. the first lot she came round for and I suggested redirection and gave her a telling off for the state she left the house in!! subsequent stuff ive binned / given back to the postie. really bloody annoys me though!

Tax discs really should be sent back to DVLA because it means the car is registered to the wrong address...

We moved house round the corner and got mail redirected for 6 months. I notified everyone I could think of but asked the new occupant to give next door neighbour any mail that came by mistake.

I must have forgotten to notify Tesco but this didn't occur to me for about a year. When I phoned them to enquire about my Clubcard points it turned out the new occupant of my house had spent them!!

If it's junk mail, they may have tried unsuccessfully to change the address - when my dad died I had his mail redirected to me, and notified each sender as stuff came to me. One particular catalogue came every month, I sent it back every time asking them to take dad off their list as he had died, but it took 6 months before they stopped coming.

When we moved we redirected for a month, contacted everyone important with our new change of address and left a few large envelopes at the property and asked NICELY if they could slip anything we missed into the envelopes and pass them on to the NDN who is a good friend.
They ignored our request and OPENED our mail before recycling it. When The DVLA sent my car tax reminder to the old address after giving them the new address I was presented with my document sans envelope.
I was also informed that Bailiffs had been round after us, and so had the neighbours. It was a total lie. The people who bought our house were batshit crazy.
Personally, in this situation, I save it for a month or two then stick a note on the letterbox asking the postman to only post mail in our surnames. Its always worked.

The former owners of my house still have loads of post arrive for them. Not once have they got in touch (no idea where they live now). All sorts turns up, professional magazine subscriptions, bills, court summons!

I bin it all now as I'm fed up of sending it back.

over a year since we moved in. Not only do we get mail for sellers, but also for previuos tennants of theirs. I've never seen so many DVLA letters for random people at my address!

given the sellers clearly didn't bother getting mail redirected it all just gets RTS when a pile has built up.

ZOMBIE THREAD

I agree. But our mail redirection that we paid for was fairly useless. Lots of post still got delivered to our old house. And yes, we complained.