To refuse to keep sorting their post.

[poppybuns]

Moved into our new house a month ago.

The sellers said they hadn't had time to sort a redirection out so could I pop any post that comes for them to another house down the street.

It's been a month and they still get a lot of post. They obviously don't want to pay for the redirection. It isn't really an issue for me to take it to the neighbour but they clearly aren't changing their address as it isn't just junk mail that's coming, I'm pretty sure today's post is a new bank card as I can feel it in the envelope. There was an NHS appointment letter last week too.

How long do I keep this up for? is it unreasonable of me to start returning to sender, they've had a month to sort it.

Not all of us are as on top of things are good at the life admin stuff.

But. What concerns me is you receiving obvious banking post.

We moved into our new place just over two years ago and were asked to forward in some banking mail addressed to the last occupants who had moved out about nine months before we moved in. This was during our first year. We weren't OK with it and took the post to the bank and reported it as possible fraud.

Our area had a high number of banking scams at that time.

Give it all to the house down the street, but write ‘Will no longer be putting post in number xxxx. Please re-direct or I will will be putting ‘Not known at this address on future post’. Time these idiots sorted this out!

Next time you take the post to the neighbour include a letter saying that as of x date you will no longer be willing to sort their mail, so please arrange redirection or any further mail will be marked as return to sender. This means they can’t kick off that you’ve returned something urgent etc, as you are giving them plenty of notice.

Either return it to sender. Or just stuff it through their letter box once every 4- 6 weeks. Hopefully they will get the message.

I think 4 weeks is long enough. Agree with putting a note in with the next lot saying in future you will be returning mail to the sender. I wouldn't have agreed to be their unpaid postman in the first place

Once a month , I get mail for the last people here, Every Dec I get quite a few clothes deliveries from Next.
Then a few days after clothing arrives, the woman turns up, all very apologetic...

Its my 3rd year here.This Dec, the deliveries will be left outside

@Lollypop4

Once a month , I get mail for the last people here, Every Dec I get quite a few clothes deliveries from Next. Then a few days after clothing arrives, the woman turns up, all very apologetic...

Its my 3rd year here.This Dec, the deliveries will be left outside

Can't blame you. After all when she's doing her order why doesn't she amend the delivery address. It's not exactly rocket science. The online ordering will show the delivery address which must be at odds with her billing address.

If their house really is just down the street, so that you walk/drive past it often, I don't think it would bother me to put the post through their letter box. At first weekly, then fortnightly, then monthly. If they want their bank card, they will soon get the message.
I don't think I would accept deliveries of the Next packages though! They have had quite long enough to change their address!

I would write return to sender on Bank stuff.

We've been at our current address for 10 years and every year we still receive a statement, it looks like a stocks and shares balance. I only know because one year my oh opened the envelope thinking it was just regular post and didn't look at the label. Every year we return it with a note saying addressee no longer at this address but it makes no difference

I’ve had similar but the neighbours I was asked to leave the post with returned it to me! Am now writing ‘gone away’ on everything that comes for the previous owners and putting it back in the post.

Yes I know not everyone is good at life admin, and I'm sure there are things I haven't thought about but that's why I paid for the redirection but things like banking and the GP is a priority when you move surly, you'd do them straight away.

I didn't agree to do it for them, they actually just left a note alongside a bottle of wine for when we arrived here. I figured it would only be for a week while the post office sorted the redirection, but clearly not!

@Lollypop4 there's no excuse for that.. you'd think the first time she'd of sorted her next account out straight away.. I won't accept any parcels for mine if they turn up here!

Well I haven't taken the latest post to the neighbour, maybe I'll keep it here for them and when they come to neighbour to collect their post they'll have to come knock on the door and I can tell them I'm not prepared to keep sorting it for them!

I wouldn’t take any more to the neighbour, let them come and get it when they realise you’re not doing it any more then tell them they need to sort the redirection. Unless you make it inconvenient for them, they’ve no incentive to sort it out.

I wouldn't be taking it to someone else's house for them, I'd leave it in a pile and they can come and get it.

Next time you see them tell them to set up a redirection as you will be returning to sender from now on

Stop doing it, you’re not the post office. Either bin it or return it all to sender

I’d do it for 3 months but I wouldn’t take it to them; I’d expect them to come and get it

Drop in a note that you'll give them 1 more week to set up redirection, then everything will be marked Return to Sender.

I would presume the Next deliveries are someone who has serious credit card debt they need to split between locations, or is using a stolen card. Either way, it would make me nervous because it could be logged against the address. I certainly wouldn't be accepting the parcels and then handing them over, that's just begging for trouble.

I’d drop to the neighbour but take my time to do it. 6 weeks or so. They’ll soon get the message.

Stop taking it. Start returning important stuff, like the bank card.

They don't need a redirection with Royal Mail at all, they just need to email the companies to change address or do it online. It's incredibly easy. Maybe you might forget one or two things, but you would just do the obvious ones straight away.

What kind of excuse is "some people aren't very good at admin?" This is just being an adult, and a very basic part of it too.

Also there is just no need to even get loads of post today. I hardly get any as everything is online.

Might all be above board but so many opportunities for fraud here that I'd stop immediately. Return anything official to sender (gone away) and stuff the rest in a carrier bag in case they come knocking. How can adults who manage to buy/sell and move house not understand about redirection?

If someone’s capable enough to navigate moving house they’re capable enough to go on line and set up a re-direction.

If you know their new address, put it all in an envelope and post it without a stamp. They will have to pay the postage to receive it, maybe they'll realise how annoying it is for you.

From now on I would bin it. In our pack moving into the apartment there was something about what to do with other peoples post. Really? Nah.