Still receiving their post! Right to be annoyed?

[MillieS76]

We moved into a new house around this time last year. The family that where in the house before where lovely before the purchase but on moving day it was a complete 180.

The house was a state, an oven tray left with tin foil full of fat and a freezer full of ice and food as well as a fridge with mouldy cheese left. That’s ignoring the faulty electric box, the boiler that wasn’t working and the fact they took their outside bins with them🤦🏻‍♀️

Anyway, we are still getting their post a year on. We have messaged them on Facebook a few times when it looked important, like letters from HMRC. 4 months ago we got a handwritten letter from what appeared to be an elderly relative (from the writing) which I accidentally opened (didn’t think I’d still need to check the name on the front 8 months on) with £150 in it, we messaged again and they asked us to post it through their letter box which we did. Yesterday we got another one of these handwritten letters, I haven’t opened it this time but am I right to be frustrated by this? It’s been a year and they still haven’t bothered to update a family member never mind companies. If it was just this person I’d put it down to them maybe forgetting they had moved but we are getting payslips, mobile phone bills, union newsletters, HMRC reminder’s & insurance company renewal letters.

I don’t want to waste my time travelling 20 minutes to their house and certainly don’t want to pay to forward on the letter. What can we do without being a rubbish person- we’ve given a years notice to update these things!

You write on the envelope not at this address and put it back in the postbox 🤷🏻‍♂️

Write RTS - no longer lives at this address, and post it back. All senders will gradually update their mailing lists and the volume of post will be greatly reduced.

There is no return address on the letter, all other letters are being sent back in the post but this is a handwritten letter from a relative and has nothing to indicate where it’s came from.

Even still sending the company letters back- the nearest post office/ post box is 15 minutes in a direction we never go. I was trying to be nice to begin with but it’s so frustrating & having to check the name on letters before opening!

Just throw it in the bin. That’s what I do. I’m not bothering going to a postbox if they can’t be bothered changing their address.

We've lived in our house for over 10 years and still get the odd letter for the old owner. One particular company insist on sending letters every few months even after I called them to tell them he had moved, so now I just bin them. It's nice of you to pass on the handwritten letters, but doing this once is enough.

I still get letters nearly 6 years on. I bin them.

If there’s no return address, just bin them.

Why are you delivering to them anyway, instead of expecting them to come and pick them up from you?

Either way, just start binning them now if they have no return address.

I still get the occasional letter after 20 years, It goes straight into recycling.

I open all of our previous owners post, and if there is a contact number or email address on the letter I phone or email them to tell them the addressee is no longer at this address and hasn’t been for 4 years now.

We still get a “Merry Christmas Brother and Sister In Law” Christmas card with no return address and 2 x £10 for the kids, the card goes in the bin and the money goes in a charity bucket.

Anything else goes in the bin.

And before someone comes along with the usual response to these threads about mail - no, it’s not illegal to open someone else’s post.

Return to sender for anything with a return address and everything else file in B1N

Speak to your postie if you see them, or write to your local sorting office and ask that only your mail is delivered to that address. Any mail not for you that still comes, write 'gone away ' on it and leave it sticking out of your letterbox for postie to take.

And before someone comes along with the usual response to these threads about mail - no, it’s not illegal to open someone else’s post.
It is in the UK...

Open it, pocket the money, deny all knowledge.

No it’s not.

Opening someone else’s post in and of itself is not illegal.

We had this. We just wrote NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS on the envelope and stuck it back in the post box. Put the mail to one side and get rid this way once a month or couple of months, then you’re not doing it all the time. It’s a pain in the arse. It only stopped when the couple died.

You need to stop passing the mail on to them. They’re not going to sort it whilst you’re helping them.

Tell them to collect or goes in the bin

Write not at this address return to sender on the envelope and put back in the postbox when you pass one.

@babywalker2

And before someone comes along with the usual response to these threads about mail - no, it’s not illegal to open someone else’s post. It is in the UK...

No, it isn’t.

You are being far too nice! Just bin them.

I just bin them.
Got a wedding invite over the summer but dont know the new address so 🤷

YABU travelling 20 minutes to deliver their mail!

Tell them it’s at yours and to collect! They’re CF!

Just to settle the argument freemanssolicitors.net/news-blog/postal-offences-2/

I’ve lived in my house 9 years and still get stuff for previous owners sometimes. It all goes in the bin unopened now.