Our neighbours are moving away to another country for a number of years. They have now rented out their house, keeping a small apartment within the house for themselves as a base for when/if they come back to visit. They have screwed a letterbox on the outside wall of the house. My neighbour came over at the weekend with the key for the letterbox and asked me if I would empty it if I see it overflowing. She says she's given their forwarding address to the post office but sometimes the post office cocks it up and mail still gets posted to the old address and in this country (I don't live in the UK) we get a lot of unsolicited mail.
I took the key not really thinking much about it but my dh was not happy. He says if they were away for a few months and we just had to keep an eye on things for a short period of time it would be ok (we have actually done this in the past as well as watering plants inside and in the garden whenever they went away) but this time is different as they are actually moving away for a few years. He wants to return the key and says the neighbour should ask the new tenants to empty the letterbox. Is my neighbour being a CF (as my dh thinks) or is my dh being unreasonable. I feel like I'm stuck in the middle....
Thanks for your opinions!