To find this guy?

[KathrynOfArrogance]

Not as interesting as the title seems!
Some cheeky fuck has his vehicle registered at my address! Private rented property may I add.
I sometimes get mail for another guy who used to live here, but this one I've never heard of before!
So I google the return address on the envelope, "tickets and offences" traffic police, grrreat!
So I open it (oooopps) and it's a letter of intended prosecution for speeding!
Do I hunt him down and poke him in the eye or pretend this was a dream

Or you could just mark it 'not known at this address' and put it back in the post.

Well for a start I'd be contacting the DVLA...

@HilaryBriss I can't coz like a fool I've bloody opened it! Curiosity killed the cat and all that!

@MonaLisaSimpson yeah that's what I'm going to do il ring them on Monday say I've put it back in post box goes to hell for lying

I would send back as not known and contact the DVLA. The people that owned our house before us didn’t set up a redirection or seemingly speak to anyone bar their bank because it was five years or so before we stopped getting shit for them.

Funnily enough it tailed off when we got a SORN registration for a car and I sent it back to the DVLA (I might have called them too, can’t temember). The kicker is that there is no off street parking here so you literally can’t declare a car as SORN!

@DianaPrincessOfThemyscira can't send back as I've torn it to shreds opening it as stated above but I'm going to ring them and say I've sent it back (Royal Mail must of lost it....) and say I'm concerned after googling the return address!
Just bloody annoys me as it's not even our house
I do have his car reg now though
plots revenge

Pop it in an envelope and send it back - I’ve opened mail not for me accidentally before, it happens.

Oooo @haggisflamingohaggis do you think they will buy that? If my fella had been in he probably would of just seen "mr" and opened it tbf!

I don’t think any one will care tbh

@haggisflamingohaggis this stupid man that's been speeding should do when this catches up with him grrrr
Should I pop a little ditty in with it stating he doesn't and never has lived here?

Do you live in a rural area? You could be being used for ghost broking :/

No one will care if you opened it, say it was a mistake etc or even that you were concerned you kept getting mail for a name you don't know and thought it might be urgent, call the DVLA and return the letter to sender

@Pinklady11 it's a village but not rural
Absolute cheek of it ay!

Thanks @FASH84 will go get stamp later and call them Monday!

No one will care that it's been opened.

You don't need a stamp. Just cross through your address on the front, write not at this address and put it back in the post.

It's actually quite serious , he's using your address to knowingly commit fraud , contact DVLA and possibly local police

@Oysterbabe I've destroyed the envelope when I opened it

@prettygreywalls I'm defiantly phoning dvla Monday and will ask them if should let police know

I didn't know it would be possible to register a vehicle at someone else's address as I've never had anything else for him?
What I want to know is what made him choose mine

Sorry sent to early
I bought a derelict building and then found all types of benefit claims were being addressed to the property - certain types use buildings that are empty / change hands regularly for these types of fraud apparently

@prettygreywalls god that's awful! Hope you managed to get it sorted! Some people really have no shame

Just put it in an envelope or the ripped one & tape it up and return it to sender.

Could it be a neighbour? I've had a letter from the DVLA sent to a neighbours house because they got the house number wrong. I've also received one for the guy across the street, I just sent it back with 'not known at this address'

@category12 I've retrieved the torn envelope will tape it up once spoken to dvla on Monday :)

@Oatsandraisens no one from round here it is very much a "can't sneeze without someone knowing" kind of place lol

all you have to say is i never looked at the front of the envelope just opened it as only me that lives here type of thing when i realised i thought i better give you a call to make you aware. i opened a letter for someone who used to live here years ago (her childs trust fund) i had been telling the bank every year to stop sending me them, called them numerous times, went in to the bank and still got them, tracked her down through SM and told her i keep getting letters only for the past 9 years and she may want to change her address, i did put them back in the post etc too. i opened another previous tenants letters which was all debt didnt get them for the first through years but as it was a brown envelope i wanted to know what it was at end of the day it is my address so i have a right to know if someone is using it. i had to provide my tenancy agreement before they would stop sending me court letters for the tenant

You need to send it back to the police force who have sent it, preferably recorded and signed for.

A notice of intended prosecution is the first step in obtaining driver information for an alleged offence, in this case Speeding. If that letter isn't reacted to in the timespan given, the person who is named on that letter will then be summons to court and if that summons isn't reacted to, prosecuted in their absence for a Failure to Provide Driver Information, as that person hasn't allowed the police to prosecute for the alleged original offence, it carries a high fine and points (which obviously you won't be liable for).

Should you not notify the department who has sent you this doc, you will end up with more letters from the police/courts and eventually courts chasing payment, which can be obviously quite daunting, and bloody well inconvenient to you.

Contact and write to DVLA (again recorded and signed for....to ensure that it is received) requesting that you address be removed from their systems for that vehicle and also for that person in case they have changed their driving licence either.

I work in one of the above areas and it's becoming very common recently for people to change their driving licence details, but not their vehicle (v5) this is usually as they expect DVLA to do it on all related docs when the licence is changed, unfortunately DVLA treat their driving licence department and vehicle department as 2 separate entities and so both docs need changing separately.