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PookieDo · 28/03/2019 21:06

Petty annoyance but I moved to a new house 2 months ago now. I set up 1 month redirection with Royal Mail from my old address to give me time to change all my addresses (bank, insurance etc etc)

The couple who lived here before me moved either December last year or January this year - the house was empty a little while. There was a ton of post for them and the HA officer told me I should not open it or give to them should they ever turn up but return to sender in a post box.

2 months later I am still receiving a large amount post for them - at least 1 thing every week day and today I got 7 in one go! I started saving it up then writing on it before posting it back in the letter box but I am totally fed up of doing this. Where do I stand with binning it all? WIBU? They have had plenty of time to change address but I don’t believe it’s all junk - some of it is for their child from the NHS, banks and power companies who are still bloody writing to them despite me dutifully sending it all back (they owe the utilities thousands which I found out when I tried to switch supplier!). How can I make this madness stop

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outpinked · 29/03/2019 11:16

I had police and bailiffs turn up at my old address looking for the previous occupants Hmm. The post is a minor annoyance but I feel your pain, still got other people’s post at that address three years after I’d moved in! I just threw it all in the recycling.

Sexykitten2005 · 29/03/2019 11:16

igotdemons we get a grandson birthday card every year where they write how much they miss him. That one always chokes me. But never a return address so I can send it back to them and at least let them know

PregnantSea · 29/03/2019 11:23

I've moved around a lot and so have often been in this situation. I will do return to sender for a few months or so, but after a while I always just start throwing it in the bin. I know you're not meant to but... Meh. People should update their address for important stuff and when it's the same people sending letters that you've returned to sender so many times it just becomes irritating.

Penners99 · 29/03/2019 11:49

I had bailiffs turn up at my house looking for the previous owners. I said they did not live here anymore and I had no forwarding address for them. I was then informed that the debt was now mine as I took it over when I bought the house! Said bailiff was told to go away (may not have been that polite!) and learn the law. They did come back twice more but I just laughed and shut the door.

igotdemons · 29/03/2019 11:55

Sexykitten2005 Ah, now that is really sad 😔 Wonder why they don’t hear from him? 😕

I have the same problem, no return address in the card otherwise I would let them know. I’d have thought after a year or two they would have stopped writing so I’ll be interested to see if we get another one this Christmas! Confused

12thofnever · 29/03/2019 12:02

One house I lived in I received a letter from the previous occupants employer asking when she thought she’d be back at work. We’d been there for a considerable amount of time.
(Yes shouldn’t have opened it but there was no return address and we got a fair amount for them, so was a bit fed up of it)
We also get the yearly Christmas card from (presumably) elderly relatives for a couple who haven’t lived here for 7 or so years

HopelesslydevotedtoGu · 29/03/2019 12:11

I moved into a student flat share where they had been holding onto post for the previous tenant for two years, a stack of over a hundred quite thick envelopes in the corner of the living room.

One day they decided to open a few and found they were 95% porn catalogues, mostly "Granny porn".

Who doesn't redirect their dodgy porn?!

BlankTimes · 29/03/2019 12:18

Writing ‘return to sender’ or ‘not known at this address’ and putting a letter back in the post doesn’t mean a letter is immediately sent back to the sender

Also some companies' mailshots are geared up to be 6 months in advance, so from knowing they were notified to post ceasing to arrive at yours could well take 6 months.

SingingLily · 29/03/2019 12:25

We've had numerous letters from debt collection agencies in pursuit of the previous house owner as well as a visit from a bailiff in possession of a court order. He wasn't allowed over the doorstep - I'd read up on my rights in advance. However, the previous occupant's junk mail continues even after four years and for the senders of all those Christmas cards that contain the cheery message "Really must catch up in the New Year!!!", I have a cheery little message of my own:

Julia, Paul, Freya and Naomi moved four years ago and didn't bother to let you know. What does that tell you? Hmm

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