To throw their post away

[Butttons]

We moved house two years ago and are still receiving post for the previous owners, not just the odd letter or Christmas card but screwfix catalogues, notices from companies house (wtf - why would you not change your address with them), and the NHS. I'd make the effort to locate them on Facebook but they were awful vendors to us and I'd rather not have any direct contact with them. They left the place filthy, left furniture there which we had to dispose of and the whole downstairs was covered in mouse droppings (vom) which hadn't been apparent when we viewed the property. We had to get the place deep cleaned and treated for rodents the day after we moved in. With a 2-year old and a 2-week old (not sure how they put up with all this with their 4-year old - double vom). As a result we don't exactly have amicable feelings towards them.

I've dutifully "returned to sender" with most of their post but we received a couple of parcels just before christmas with no return address on it. (As sn aside, who the hell sends a parcel with no return address on these days?!) What do I do with these parcels? I think they may still live locally as I used to see the wife around a couple of times when we first moved in but havent seen her in over a year.

Open, enjoy the stuff and keep putting letters in the bin thereafter Don't even bother returning to sender! They sounds like twats and they obviously don't care if it's been 2 years. Hope it's some good stuff!

I think its illegal to throw mail like that away. Can you return it to the post office to dispose of with "no longer at this address" written on it

Hand the parcels in to the post office and explain the issue. It's up to them to sort out if they can.

I still get post too but got fed up with reposting so just chuck it. You could keep them unopened and wait for them to contact you, which they may well do if the sender asks them whether they received it. Or you could chuck it but make sure you deny ever receiving it! If you do keep it, stick it in a bin bag with all the other post so they can see all the post. If they don't collect in a few months, id bin it all. And still deny!

I've contacted the likes of Screwfix etc and took the previous residents off their mailing lists.

The parcels, i'd open, only because you have no way of returning or passing them on. There may be a clue to who sent them.

However a trick of trying to find out were someone has moved to is to send something and wait to see if you are informed were it's been forwarded to.

The Vendors obviously doesn't want the person sending the parcels to know were they are.

Watching as we have the exact same issue, manky vendors and 2 years worth of mail (including court stuff). So far we have been writing not known at this address and sending it back but it’s a PITA.

Usually with companies if you return it and state 'No longer at this address, please remove from mailing list', they should delete the address. As for the parcels, like someone else said, open them (there may be an address inside you can write to) and get rid. If you've not signed for anything there's no proof anywhere you've ever received it, previous owners don't exactly seem bothered about missing this stuff anyway.

Illegal??

We have the same and the vendors were awful (didn’t move out for 3 days after completion, told us how terrible the house when we finally got through the front door and all after making us homeless for 4 weeks because they changed their mind after all parties in the chain had agreed a moving date).

I used to just return to sender but it made no difference. Now I put each proper letter I get (not spam mail) in a plain envelope and post back to sender without a stamp. This does seem to have helped reduce the mail - we even got an apology letter from one bank.

The spam I now throw away and any letter/parcels without a return address I have opened in case there’s a clue to the sender. Never had anything of much interest though and rarely any useful info.

I'd bin it all. 2 years is a piss take and I wouldn't feel obliged to make trips to the post office doing admin for someone who hadn't bothered doing their own.

I get holiday brochures and stuff sometimes, those I recycle. It's just junk mail.

I get the occasional letter and write not at this address on it and repost. It's not that inconvenient, I go past the post box and DC like posting stuff. I do wonder what the post office do with it though if there is no return address. I imagine a dusty room of old forgotten letters where kindly workers attempt to reunite them with their sender...but I suspect they chuck them.

In my old house we regularly received bank letters for the previous owners. I opened one by mistake once and it was a statement! Took me a few minutes of confusion before I realised it wasn't meant for me. I'd dutifully send them back...after a while I'd just bin them. The previous owners hadn't been at there for 20 years!

I think I'll take them to the post office. I don't feel right opening someone else's post!! What if it's knickers or sex toys?!

I wouldn't bother worrying about it. If they are too lazy to change address then they can't be that bothered about what they miss out on!

Open and keep the levels. Bin the junk or post back to them with no stamp. Open and call/reply to anything official looking. Don’t want bailiffs at your door demanding you prove you’re not x or y.