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?

Absolutely, cup. Don't rock the boat and make it awkward. Then, if and when anything happens like the landlord failing to pay the mortgage or an electrical fault burns the house down the OP will be left with no rights or redress as there's no duty to rehouse and the insurance would be valid. But at least the OP would be a good egg.

@specialsubject all other legal fine - there's no way DP would have moved into a rental that wasn't.

And again, for the record, our credit scores are totally fine and even if this would effect us, it's not - we've both been approved for credit recently, have a mortgage in principal and check our Experian files regularly etc

Use some preprinted redirection stickers, and then once a fortnight or once a month drop them all off in a post box.

You will be doing what your landlord has asked, ie sending them on. But because you only do it occasionally some of what she gets will be late. So she will start to miss out on invitations, registrations for events will be late, she might even start to be find.

It won't cost you, and you won't have to go out of your way to send things on.

For added annoyance you could leave them sitting in the bottom of your bag, so that when you do drop them off in a post box they'll have added 'rumple factor'. (Sitting in the bottom of MY bag they'd be barely recognisable as post!! )

A) keep in the box till you see them - tell them it’s not feasible to keep on posting on due to volume
B) redirect without a stamp - work case cheexky buggers will have to pay for the letters themselves at the depot

@Cuppaoftea are you actually a LL who can't be bothered to change your address?

Redirect each individual letter for free by just crossing out the address and writing redirect to xx on it. If you put them all in another envelope then you would have to use a stamp.

Hmm, I wouldn't send it not known at this address, they own the place after all.

I would either collect it, and make her pick it up, or when you stick it in a large envelope 'forget' to put a stamp on, so she has to go and get it, or, if you must, return to sender.

Cup ** you're being so unreasonable it's ridiculous.
OP I think every time you get a letter for LL you should personally HAND DELIVER it to their door because they're SO lovely. Oh no wait, they're just doing the things landlords are supposed to do, like responding to emails and fixing things.
I'd probably redirect (don't pay for stamps) if you're moving very soon. If you were staying longer I'd do the box thing like PP have suggested.

yes, actually, did you realise that if you don't open a letter, but just cross out address and write new address then redirect is free?

@Qcumber they live in such a lovely part of the UK that hand delivering is almost tempting. But it's so far I'd need a day off work and my office might see that as unwilling and inflexible. Can't please everyone I guess \(ツ)/¯

Then prepare to be evicted OP. You're breaking your contract, the clause where it says you have to be your LL's PA

As so many pp have said,
redirecting mail is free.
You don't need to go and weigh stuff and buy stamps.
Tell the landlord that if he supplies you with address labels you will redirect once a month, or if he can't do that you will keep the mail for collection.
Then put the stuff in a box as it arrives and don't fret about it.

*Tell the landlord that if he supplies you with address labels you will redirect once a month, or if he can't do that you will keep the mail for collection.8
Then put the stuff in a box as it arrives and don't fret about it.

this seems like a good compromise, I hate writing the address a thousand times on post, but wouldn't ind so much if I had labels

Thanks @endofthelinefinally and everyone saying redirection is free. It is not free.

I have a) experienced paying for it myself and b) read the Royal Mail website. It's £33.99 for three months (FYI)

I'm still going with the box idea. I will tell him, I'm almost certain he will be fine with it. And if he isn't I'll live with it.

No you have misunderstood.
If I move house and ask thd post office to direct my mail I have to pay them.
If I receive letters for the previous occupant of my house, I just cross out the address, write their new address on the envelope and put it in a post box. I do not have to take it to a post office or buy a stamp.

No, if the Royal Mail redirect it is free, but if you cross out the address and rewrite a new address, you can just stick it in the post box, and you don't need new stamps.

So buy collecting it, putting it in a large envelope and having to weigh it and pay for postage, you are causing yourself a lot of uncecessary work.

just write LL address on the envelope.

bugger sorry, If the Royal Mail redirect it for you, at source it is PAID.

Indeed, setting up a re-direction with RM costs money - you're paying RM for a service.

However, individuals re-directing individual bits of post is free. Because they (you) are undertaking the task yourself.

So your argument that the LL should be paying you for this service is doubly valid. But you do not need to be paying anything to RM - for stamps or otherwise.

So... an alternative to the box would be if you ask the LL to provide you with the re-direction stickers.

You slap them over the address, then drop a batch of post into a post-box every couple of weeks.

Even if the LL provides her with stickers, she still has the task of putting the stickers on and posting the items.

I think the box idea is fine, assuming you will inform them that is what you are doing.

Redirecting mail at the expense of your own time and effort (and financial expense as as you said you have been putting it in a large envelope and paying postage) is NOT a legally enforceable part of a lease even if it were on it. A landlord can put anything in a lease and you can sign it in blood if you want but if it is legally unenforceable then it's not worth the ink that printed it.

Redirecting mail costs you unnecessarily. It is interfering with your quiet enjoyment of the property you rent. You are not obligated to act as PA to a landlord no matter how quick they are to comply with their legal obligations such as making repairs and the like.
They are repeatedly having their mail sent to your home. They have no right to even keep a box of their property (letters in this case) in your home.

Write return to sender, not at this address on all the envelopes and this should stop you receiving any more because the companies will need to amend their records. It may be the landlord's property but it is neither their home or mailing address.

It is just part of renting 😏 I get previous owner's official post and put it back in the letterbox as return to sender. It's significantly reduced in the last six months of doing that.

Think you've got the right approach. I wouldn't fall out about it but it sounds like they've taken your goodwill for granted. It'll soon become a PITA to come and collect it all the time, especially if she misses important things

And i'd afraid that i could not even begin to arsed to write the address over and over again for the volume of post the OP describes.

Why would be such a dick as to bin it? How hard is it to put it all in one place and give it to the landlord when you see him?