To think this was a bit odd?!

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We moved into our house almost two years ago. We still get SO MUCH post for the previous owners. Really important stuff like bank cards, a national insurance card, UCAS letters, NHS letters etc. We kept everything for a few weeks when we first moved in, thinking they might come back and ask for it, but they never did, so since then we have just written 'Not at this address, return to sender' on everything and put it back in the postbox. We did approach both neighbours and ask if they had a forwarding address but they didn't, so we kind of figured there wasn't much more that we could do!

Fast forward almost two years, and we still get seemingly all of their post, I don't think they have changed the address on anything?! I actually had an annoying conversation with my GP surgery a few weeks ago as they are all still registered as living here, and a comment was made about the space in my house with so many people under one roof as they were a family of 6 and we are a family of 4, and it's a 3 bedroom house.

Anyway, last week there was a knock at my door, and it was the previous owners who had come to collect their post?! I said that we kept it for a while but since then everything is returned to sender because we don't have a forwarding address, but they were annoyed about it. They highlighted a few important things that they need that have been sent here and asked if I could check that we don't still have them, and were cross when I said that we don't.

AIBU to think this was a bit odd, and that it was unreasonable to expect us to have kept two years worth of post? Or have I missed something here?

The people that lived in our house before us were like this a bit cf they told ndn to tell us that they will collect any post from ndn . We did it for a while but like you op it appeared no address was being changed , bank statements , medical letters etc . This went on a few months until I got fed up and started return to sender then person turns up demanding post I told them it was returned. There was no thanks for doing it for months it was just a scowl because they were narked at me not keeping hold of it . I’m not the bloody post office the cf’s . Even after that for a couple of years we’d still get post even a p45 a good 5 years later ( I opened as no forwarding address) . I absolutely would not keep hold of neighbours post more than a month after moving as that’s plenty of time to redirect post . I redirected mine and never once went back to old house .

They’re dodgy. For some reason they don’t want their new address known.

They were in your house illegally. Once you have completed any items left in the house is legally yours. It’s not their house any more so in effect they were trespassing I would have given the one hour to remove their items. Then locked them out. People know what they are going and, as some people suggested, helping them would be giving them carte blanche to think they can get away with things. The time from exchange to completion is between 2-4 weeks unless you exchange and complete on the same day, which is unusual. If you are out of pocket then get your solicitor to contact them. They were in the wrong and there is no excuse!