To throw away their post?

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DH and I moved house in January and put a redirect on our post for 6 months. Fairly soon after we moved we realised we were getting post addressed to the old owners. A couple of times we got parcels so we contacted them to collect them and gave them the post we had saved for them. We dropped some heavy hints about still receiving their post, although at the time it wasn't a big deal.

About a month ago I had a chat to the post man and he offered to stop delivering their post as they aren't living here any more. He said they had a redirect for 2 weeks but obviously haven't changed their addresses on things.

We have a full shopping bag sitting under the stairs with their post. We don't get much any more and this stuff is out of date. There's so much they must know they aren't getting it at their new place.

WIBU to chuck it? We've not got a shredder and I don't know if there's personal information in it. They obviously aren't coming back for it.

I’d return it all to sender.

Yep. I would return to sender too.

Why didn't you just mark it "not known at this address" and put them back in a post box?

Wrote on the envelope ‘not known at this address. Return to sender’ and stick it all in a post box.

Mark as 'gone away, return to sender' and stick back in the post box otherwise you will carry on getting it forever.

Or rather write on the envelope

When we redirected I thought the minimum was 3 months. Why didn't you just either write their new address on and put it in a post box, or writer 'Moved away' and put it in a postbox?

Two years later we are still receiving mail for previous occupants, and them before... it was rented before so may have had lots of short stay people, we did e return to sender for a bit but then having to stop at a postbox became a pain in the rear end so now we bin it.

You can redirect for 3,6 or 12 months

Do you know where your vendors moved to? Why not just drop it round and tell them anything else will be going in the bin.

When I say for a bit, I did it for well over 6 months.

We are 11 years in this house and we still receive correspondence from the old owners employers share scheme.

Write on the envelope, not known at this address put it back in the post box and the post office will have to deal with it

Why would you keep someone else's post until you have a bag full. Just put 'not know at this address' and stick it in the post box.

Pretty sure it's an offence to destroy someone else's mail. Obviously circulars and other rubbish is probably not important but you can't just throw again someone else's important letters, not matter how annoy it is.

I would also just "return to sender". If it's dull to write that on loads of envelopes can you encourage a bored child to do it for you?

sorry about all the typos, it's been a long day.

Just return it to sender

Why would you keep it til you have a bagful?

We still get post from the people who lived here almost 6 years ago and occasionally for the people before them (about 20 years ago!), we used to drop it round to the last couple's new address but they moved again very quickly and now we just write NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS in big black sharpie and chuck it in the post box at our convenience.

Wiring return to sender etc dues fuck all though. Sometimes the company that sent it gets it back and does actually have a process for removing old addresses, but mostly it either goes back to the company who sent it and they do nothing about it or it gets binned by royal mail.

Our last house we had post addressed to almost all the previous residents. Anything important looking I put Return to Sender on and popped in the post box, unless it looked like it was from a debt collection agency when I'd open it and phone them to tell them the people they were after had moved and anything else (notably hardcore german porn catalogue, dodgy pyramid schemes and guarranteed-to-win betting tips) went in the bin.

You could print address labels with "not known here, return to sender." Stick them on the envelopes, stick the envelopes in the post. Job done.

I'd just chuck it. I wouldn't bother returning it to sender.

(Tbh, I would have just chucked each letter as it came rather than letting it build up.)

Still better binned by Royal Mail than the Op so they won’t get in any trouble if there is someone who complains

Still get junk mail for the previous owner. We've been here 15 years

We had post for the previous owners for up to 5 years! They did come round our house for over 7 months to collect it. We then put a stop to it as they said they didn't have a permanent address.
The truth was that she had 'shacked up' with an Irish traveler and they were always moving!
I used to open the post after that, as there was nowhere to send it and they looked threatening (needed to find out where to send it back).
Most of it was solicitors and bailiffs threatening to come round and 'take goods'.
Seems that they owned lots of money...

I had the same problem, still do. I bought a return to sender stamp of ebay and put it back in the post box up the street if/when I can be bothered. I have live here for 2 years now. Slowly the senders must be amending their records based on the returned post because I get less and less now.

So I would recommend return to sender because it tell the sender they no longer live there. Also recommend a return to sender stamp as it save loads of writing. Also a big permanent marker pen to pen out the original postage address (but not the name) or despite the stamp the letters will come back to you (found this out the hard way).