Landlord's (wife's) post

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We are private tenants - I'd say we're good tenants (always pay on time, keep the place clean and tidy, anything that breaks we replace with like for like or better) and our landlord is pretty fair (rent is reasonable, he's always responsive if we do need to contact him, was fine about us moving our rent day by two days etc)
The only thing that is driving me POTTY is that, after nearly two years, we are still receiving his wife's post.
Every other day, a letter comes for her. And not just spammy stuff - it looks official. She's in a professional field and we get correspondence from her governing body. Letters with bank return addresses. Phone bills. We mentioned it to our landlord and he just says sorry. We never get anything for him, just her.

Until now we've been putting it in a big envelope once a month a forwarding it on, but AIBU to just stop that and bin it?? Surely after 21 months you should have updated all addresses?

Can you ask him to put a re-direct on for a month or so? Maybe if it's actually going to her front door she'll think to change the address over.

I’d stop passing it on, I’d have stopped ages ago tbh. From now on just keep writing not known at this address and shoving it in the nearest post box. You’re not her PA she should have dealt with her own mail by now.

I would get a big box and put it in that and wait for her to collect it. She soon will wish she’d bothered to change her address if her professional registration doesn’t get renewed and will likely end up arranging to collect it. Either that, or start sending it back labelled no longer at this address. You can’t bin it though.

Are they supposed to be renting the house out, I wonder.

Don’t bin them, just save them all up and leave them in the house when you move. I’ve lived in 5 rented houses and we’ve always had post for previous tenants/landlords. Unfortunately it’s just part of renting I guess, don’t let it get to you.

What I do for our house’s previous owner is keep a month’s worth and then post it to him WITHOUT a stamp on.

Then he has to collect it from the sorting office and pay for it. After doing this 2-3 times we received nothing for about 3 years, so I expect that made him redirect.

I would stop going out of my way to return them. Keep them in a big box and get her to collect them. It'll soon become such a faff that she'll sort it out.

Just write “Not known at this address” and re-post it all. Or, if you don’t want to fall out with your LL then tell him you’re going to do that after a set date.

Yeah, write return to sender / not at this address and pop it back in the post. That's what I do with my landlady's post (her ex boyfriend gets cards come every year with no return address - I send them on to landlady but as its her ex, I don't think she passes them on to him... the same handwriting every year so obviously someone still thinks he lives in my house - I may try and find him on Facebook so I can send it on to him instead of his ex... or I may not think about it again until next year!)

When our old LL did this, he was pretending to the bank that he still lived in the property. He hadn't been paying the mortgage either.

Either collect it all and have them come to collect it, or start returning to sender.

If you’re feeling nice, ask the LL again to stop the post being sent and then if nothing changes start returning it to sender.

Currently it’s probably more hassle for her to change the address on multiple companies than to notbother, because she gets nice regular parcels of her letters! Make it more hassle to not change it! It shouldn’t be causing you hassle!

I would keep it in a box and give it to him when you see him. Private renting is a pain in the butt and if this is the biggest issue you have in a long term let which is otherwise good I wouldn’t make waves.

If any sort of falling out was to happen (for example over her professional reg) that resulted in you being given your notice you would have to question if it was worth it. You don’t want to jump out of the frying pan into the fire of that happens. You could have much worse problems with landlords.

Just write not know at this address on the envelope on put back in post box

If your LL is as decent as you say, is it really such a big deal?

Is it actually that much of an effort to write on an envelope and put it in the post box?

Put 'return to sender' on the envelopes and pop back in post box.

Print some address labels with her address, then it's no bother to re-address them. It's free to re-direct mail, so it won't cost you extra postage.

To the people suggesting this isn't a big deal, it could seriously affect the OPs credit rating if this is banking stuff. It could a way of committing fraud too, so be careful.

I bought my house 15 years ago and I still get official things for the previous owner!

Official bodies can be really crap about updating things.

Do not bin. Collect until she collects. Or return to sender.

Here are a few possibilities:

Maybe they are trying to get a school place or something?

We live in a touristy town where residents can get discounts ( you just need to take utility bills to get a discount). Perhaps they live in a different county?

I am sure they are lovely people...but is the council tax bill in your name?
Maybe they are gathering named bills for some sort of "proof of residency' thing.

To be honest I find it also quite bizarre they have not made any arrangements (redirect is expensive in long term, but changing the addresses with banks etc is not a big deal.

Just wrote sender no longer st this address and shove it back in the post box.

We have the exact same issue - we have lived in this house for 4 years now and still receiving his wife's post, similarly she is a teacher so we get a lot union stuff etc, and other similar official looking post. Their bank statements and everything still come here.

We were putting it to one side and giving it to him in a big pile if he ever called round, but I've given up and just bin it now.