To get rid of previous owner's post?

[justfoundout2014]

We moved here 18 months ago. We have always had lots of post for the previous owners (told us they didn't get it redirected) and the woman used to come and get it once a month or so. Fine - she was friendly and apologetic and kept saying she was sure she had contacted everyone now.

We still get a fair bit - some looks like junk, but some is marked private and confidential and we also get payslips for the son. None has been collected since May. I have quite a big pile - about 40 items. I want to get rid of it, but really don't want to sit writing 'not known at this address' on it all. I have a lot on - h moved out, working f/t etc. How bad would it be to rip and bin it, and then write the above on subsequent stuff as it comes and repost?

And yes, I know I could have done it in the time it took to write this, but I'm not in a doing mood, and something on another thread reminded me of this .

I think we popped old owner's post through his letterbox for about 12 months before we started binning it.

I'm going to have to do this.

One of the people who lived in the house is receiving court summons to my address!

I will be most displeased if bailiffs turn up.

I don't have the previous owners' new address. They had redirection for 1 year, after it ended we still get loads of their post. I either RTS, bin or read depending on my mood.

Oh, that's slightly different! We were getting summons and bailiffs' letters and in the end I wrote to the court to tell them the person they were after didn't live there. It all stopped after that. We could have just binned it all but didn't want the grief of an over-enthusiastic bailiff pushing his way into the house.

So she doesn't trust you with her new address, but wants you to look after her post? Cheeky cow. The previous owners of our place didn't let us have their new address, they wanted us to pass any mail to our NDN. We don't.

I think you have two choices; either mark it 'Gone Away' and dump back in a post box, or open it and then chuck. I'd go for the latter if you think it's necessary, anything that looks like a demand for payment - not that you can always tell, or if you think she might still have any financial obligations registered to your address. In your shoes, I'd have had enough by now.

Write return to sender on all new mail and stick back in post box or give to postman. Dump all collected mail on your nearest post office.

Put a couple of elastic bands round the bundle then you only have to write one not known at this address label and stick the whole bundle back in the post box.

I had no idea I was breaking the law all these years throwing other peoples post in the bin. Ahh well, more reason to do it I guess , more of a kick. Has anyone been caught and charged for this ever so serious crime? Can you imagine.
"prisoner H what are you in for?"
"Bank robbery."
"Prisoner W?"
"Chucked some letters that didn't belong to me in the bin."
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Not your responsibility, chuck it.

RTS does reduce the amount you receive as they mostly update their systems. If you ignore it it keeps coming. We still get the odd letter 5 years on though.

hudson what!?

I'll have to do that Comito, just so they know.

The previous owner did give me their forwarding address but I lost it in the move.

Oddly she has subscriptions coming to the house 6 months on. You'd notice if your monthly magazine subscription wasn't turning up and change the address it was going to, surely?!

Hi there op, just saw your username too- glad to hear your doing well. You are doing the right thing, get your own space back a bit xx

I still receive a small amount of post for my EX (21 years after divorce) but I just throw it away. Why should I redirect it by writing his address on it or returning it? There's always something interesting.

I received one yesterday for the previous owner. We moved in over 10 years ago! I wrote "not known at this address" on the envelope and put it in the postbox. From the postmark, it was obviously someone looking for business, and I hope they remove the fella from their mailing list.

I did get one about 5 years ago, so 5 years after they had moved out, from a local private hospital. It was too thick to have been a circular. I put it back in the postbox, but also emailed the hospital to say I had received it and did not know where the man lived. They responded by thanking me, and saying that they would get in touch with his GP!