AIBU to throw previous house owners mail away?

[Annoy]

We bought this house 8yrs ago! And still occasionally receive letters for previous owners... today a driving license renewal form arrived.

I’ve thrown it in the bin

@OhGiveUp

I still get mail for the previous owners 8 years on. Bank statements, pension forecasts and statements, family allowance stuff, credit card statements, threatening letters and in the beginning, the police! Though to be fair, the police didn't come through the letterbox. I had no idea where they'd moved to so I used to put it in a bag in the utility room. After 5 years I finally opened it, which is how I knew the contents, then promptly shredded it all.

I don't think the police would fit through the letter box, don't they normally just kick the door in?

@KihoBebiluPute

What have you previously been doing over the last 8 years?

Returning to sender, letting the various organisations know they have the wrong address, does work eventually. If you just throw throw things away then if the previous owners default on a debt that is registered to your address it will cause headaches down the line. The driving licence renewal would be concerning as that means the previous owners still has a "gold standard" proof of address and identity using your address and could be misusing it, so I would be writing to DVLA to let them know this person hasn't lived there for 8 years.

I moved abroad and I can't update my address with DVLA as their system can't cope with foreign addresses. That means that my driving license renewal form will go to my previous address as by then my 4 year postal redirection will expire and you can't have it in place for longer than 4 years. I can't renew it either as I'm not a UK resident and I'm not going to lie by putting a relatives address on it which would be the only way to stop the renewal form being sent to my old address. I'm definitely not using it as proof of address though!

I started binning it after a year.

I still get letters 20 years on.

I have been here 2 years, previous occupant refused to leave a forwarding address with me or the estate agency. I RTS'd for about 6 months and now it goes in the bin. Her employer sent her p60 here this year so she clearly hasn't told them she has moved!