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.

Oh wow, Sainsbury’s delivery to the wrong address. That is a new level of ‘not good at life admin’!

We had a Christmas card with a tenner through the post. But we were first in a new build so no idea who to give it to you.

@TomorrowIsAnotherDae I have no idea on the rules but the sign has worked

[quote Fourleafclover93]@TomorrowIsAnotherDae I have no idea on the rules but the sign has worked[/quote]
That’s good to know 🙂

I have always paid to redirect my mail. It is part of the cost of moving. I would refuse to forward mail for people who value their money over my time. Any mail I've received after moving house has had return to sender put on it and been posted when I get roundto it

When we moved into our house, the sellers said that the Royal Mail redirection wasn’t ready (they gave us a plausible sounding reason for why they’d been late setting it up), so could they come round and collect any mail, which we agreed to do - but the Royal Mail redirection kicked in after a week or so.

If there’s post for the sellers still turning up after a month, it really does sound like they’ve not bothered setting up a redirection at all. I think I’d put a note on the post giving them a deadline, and start returning to sender after that.
Hopefully it’s just disorganisation or laziness - after all, they’ve no incentive to set up a redirection if other people are happy to post things on - but as pp say, it’s got the potential to cause you trouble later on if it continues like this.

I used to receive a huge amount of post once I moved into my flat but it was because the people before me left with no forwarding address and left debts etc. I marked everything 'return to sender'.

I had this 3 years ago - I never dropped it round to the neighbour, just left it all in my porch. Now I write "return to sender" and shove them in the post box at the bottom of the road every time. Bollox to them. And I get random parcels from Pretty Little Thing which are swiftly collected the same day... Why can't they change their address after almost 4 years?!

We had this for ages when we bought our house, the owners hadn’t bothered arranging a redirection and didn’t leave any forwarding details either.

I put their mail in a pile and kept it for a couple of months, then eventually shredded it. Out of the blue, one of them turned up at our door very irate that we hadn’t kept it, as they had missed a letter re a hospital appointment. A few weeks after this, they clearly opened a new bank account registered to our address. I wrote “not known at this address, return to sender” on the letters and popped them back in the post. It must have caused them much more hassle than a simple redirection would have been. I really do wonder what goes through peoples minds sometimes.