Re directing post

[peppajay]

AIBU to think that if you get some post for the previous occupants of your house you don't just bin it especially if the previous occupants cousin lives opposite. So cross as been waiting for some important correspondence and found out has gone to my old address. When found this out thought I would pop round to my old house to see if they had it and they have binned it. So cross as they know my cousin lives across the road from them so they could have passed to her? I always redirect post and thought it was common sense to do so - you don't just throw something out that doesn't belong to you.

At various times at various properties we've had continuous mail for other flats... We were still getting mail for someone who left a decade earlier.
We used to shove it back in the post...

Then I stopped one week, when I had 37 bits of mail...5.flats with a communal Hall. Little of it obviously junk.
I just let it build up...

It is amazing the number of folk who just assumed you want to deal with it, and have never set up a redirect /call around (if local) for any stray bits, or have actually asked you to do it, or provide labels!
On one memorable occasion I had a snotty post card from a doctor, who used to live upstairs, asking us to be more prompt with forwarding stuff.... ...18 months after he left. He soon changed... When I told him I was no longer providing this free service when he couldn't even have the decency to send us some labels with his address.... And I wasn't being endlessly helpful... Btw this is someone we were on no more than nodding terms