To not repost a poison pen letter...

[Foreystory]

OK so long and the short of it is that a letter came through last week with my address but a name I didn't recognise. It was hand written and looked like it might be a bday card or something there was no return address and I meant to just give it back to the posty if no one came by for it but tbh I forgot all about it until last night.

Remembered it last night and thinking maybe I'd recognise the names inside it and could put it through the right door I thought sod it, I'll open it and have a nosey.

Inside was a card protecting what was inside it - a long, rambling.. poison pen letter!

I should clarify that it was not threatening in nature. Just pretty nasty. It looks like it was a response to a get well card that had been considered 'quite frankly, insulting' (Albeit they didn't put it that politely lol).

Now, I recognised some names in the letter and now I know who the card was meant for. The thing is, about a year back, a Teddy and a hamper were delivered to me too, signed something like 'from big bro' and the delivery driver was insistent that my address was the one on the card. But then the neighbour then came running over to say they were actually for them. So I'm assuming that means that they know their family members have the wrong address and have since then, still not corrected it.

Would I be unfair just to chuck this letter in the bin and feign ignorance? Or should I repost it with the correct address? (I don't want to get caught hand delivering it, that would be awkward af).

But then they'll wonder how he got the correct address if they've been deliberately keeping them in the dark. Also, if I were them I don't think I'd want to read that bile anyway. And tbh...I think i shouldn't encourage them to let people like him send stuff to my address. They can't have the cake and eat it (once they know its not poisonous xD)

Yanbu- don't get involved, bin it. If they ever did ask, you never saw anything.
Yabu- repackage and re post the letter to the right address and hope they don't figure out it came to you first.

I would chuck in the bin & forget about it

Bin the letter

Why stir up trouble?

Would the consequence be even worse if the sender thinks their letter has been totally ignored?

@HikingforScenery

Would the consequence be even worse if the sender thinks their letter has been totally ignored?

I don't think so. It's not looking for any kind of reply. It's basically just a 'go fuck yourself you * *' kind of letter.

Bin.

It could easily have got lost in the post.
Bin and forget.

Bin it. You never received it. You don't know a thing about it. KEEP WELL OUT OF THIS!!! If mail arrives for this person in the future then hand it in at the post office and tell them that someone is using your address without your permission.

Just ignore it. If younhadnt opened it (which you shouldn't have) you'd have no way of knowing who it was for.

If you are challenged, which I'm sure you won't be, you could say you put in back in the post "not known at this address".

I'd bin it -but never ever open someone else's post -it is a criminal offense. Refuse to sign for anything going forward

Oh good, I'm glad you guys feel the same. Hubby has just came in from work and he says to bin it too. OK, in the bin with it.

Bin it and think no more about it. Done.

@IAAP

I'd bin it -but never ever open someone else's post -it is a criminal offense. Refuse to sign for anything going forward

It's not a criminal offence. It's only an offence if you do something with the contents to the detriment of the intended recipient. In this case, not giving them a poison pen letter doesn't seem to me to be detrimental.

Bin it

Interesting I dont agree at all with other PP. But I have lived in my house for 25 years since it was built, so that any post that come here not addressed to myself or now ex-husband, I open. It is a mistake and could be fraud.

I wonder if your neighbours deliberately gave the wrong address - interesting that they came over so fast the time before. So I would take the opened letter over there and ask them to deal with it. Their relationship with family or friends is not your concern. But mis-addressed post coming to your house is. What if next time it is more aggressive action?

Bin it. Certainly don't go directing it to the right address and causing upset.

What sort of nosey fucker just reads someone else's mail?

I was worried it might be a birthday card, perhaps with money in it or something and if I put it back in the post box with no return address - it would never find them. May not be right thing to do but I would hope my neighbours would do the same for me rather than let me lose twenty quid lol. If it had been an official letter of course I would never have opened it.

@spongedog

Interesting I dont agree at all with other PP. But I have lived in my house for 25 years since it was built, so that any post that come here not addressed to myself or now ex-husband, I open. It is a mistake and could be fraud.

I wonder if your neighbours deliberately gave the wrong address - interesting that they came over so fast the time before. So I would take the opened letter over there and ask them to deal with it. Their relationship with family or friends is not your concern. But mis-addressed post coming to your house is. What if next time it is more aggressive action?

Actually I do the same. We were the first people to live in this house (newish build) so if something comes through with address but wrong name I open and check it!