Next Door Using Our Address

[SundaeGirl]

I think our neighbour is using our address for bills.

We live in an old building that is subdivided into different properties. Our address is the main address with the front door eg The Old Schoolhouse, Little Village. There are neighbours who live at e.g The Flat, The Old Schoolhouse, Little Village and also Housekeepers Cottage, The Old Schoolhouse and The Bakery, The Old Schoolhouse and so on.

The postman knows who everyone is, so letters get to the right door. But we get a lot of letters/bills addressed to one of the neighbours whenever it is not our usual postie. They are never addressed to her at her full address, just to ours (e.g The Old Schoolhouse). It's odd because this is the kind of post where when you are filling in the dropdown menu on address forms, she would have to have chosen our address.

She has a reputation for running out on bills and would have a rubbish credit score, I'm sure. I am getting a bit anxious. DH doesn't want to rock the boat by saying anything and neither do I (she's a lovely nieghbour).

AIBU to stick my head in the sand?

Linnet we have similar but with DS email - he has [email protected] and a retired middle school teacher in the US has [email protected] as his email addres. For a year or so DS was getting this guy's satellite statements plus various other mailing lists and I tried to sort out the satellite one but had no luck. Then last year I got a 'your online banking password has been sent' message and got the bank on live chat.

I explained the situation and they were very good and got it all sorted. Their system then sent a final message to DS email and the guy's email saying they'd updated the details - this worked out really well as I now had his email address as well. I dropped him a message explaining what had been happening and he was very nice about it and hugely apologetic. I periodically check DS mails and forward on anything that looks like it might be important and always get an apology and a thank you back. I think I get a bit overinvested though - recently we've had a lot of spam for funeral plans and health stuff and I'm worried he's not doing so well at the moment! Either that or he's tipped over into the 'elderly' demographic on marketing lists.

Don't bother with the "not at this address" posting back, my aunt works for royal mail, they don't read them or take any notice and will continue sending whatever is addressed to your house, to your house. My sisters got bailiff letters coming from a tennant 2 years previous to her, has sent back a ton of bills and final demands stting no longer at address, they don't change anything.

Why don't you just take around the next thing and give it to her, and tell her you've had quite a few things with your address on and can she please change her address.

Leave it a few weeks and if it happens again, take it round again and either tell her or leave a note saying this is the last time you'll forward her mail and she must get things changed or you'll return to sender.

Then start marking 'Not known at this address' and shoving back in the Post Box. If she's having things like bank statements delivered to you, that will definitely give her a kick as a bank will usually inhibit an accounts use when they lose contact with a customer by post.

Don't bother with the "not at this address" posting back, my aunt works for royal mail, they don't read them or take any notice and will continue sending whatever is addressed to your house, to your house

Of course the RM won't stop future addressed mail going to the ops address - that's not the point of returning to sender.

It's so that the companies get the post back (which they will...certainly did with all the post we returned like this when the previous owners didn't change their address after months) and block future mail from being sent to the address.

RockNRollNerd - I just turned 60 in August, and I'm suddenly getting a lot more 'plan for your funeral' and retirement home junk, so hopefully that,s all it is with your DS's email twin!

My giddly uncle, thats what i meant, my sister has "return to sender" bills from 3 different companies saying previous tennant no longer at the address but they ignore it and keep re sending the bills, then sending bailiff threats. My aunt said that pretty often, they aren't returned to sender and are just binned.

MsAdoraBelle

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/_chat/2774513-pTerry-Pratchett-fans-this-way-I-have-a-theory All about your "husband" :o

I did a work trial for a data entry job and that was entering details of "not known at this address" letters, so it does go through the system. I also worked for a company that sold direct marketing lists and one of the things they did was "clean" their data by removing not-knowns (amongst other things).

The bailiffs/debt collection ones are differet ime though, as I suspect that debt avoiders will send post back from their own address as "not known". I know that it wasnt until I contacted the companies concerned myself, telling them that I had lived here 15 years and the people before had lived here almost as long, that they finally stopped chasing the person who had given my address.