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!

Since it’s a handwritten letter and may contain money, I’d send Lyme a FB message along the lines of:

“Some further post has arrived for you, if you’d like to collect it please let me know and I’ll leave it outside. Please let me know in advance which day you’ll be coming. For any future post, however, please set up a post redirect with Royal Mail as any mail we receive from now on will be returned to the post office as undelivered. If I don’t hear from you or the letter isn’t collected within [deadline], we’ll return this to the post office too - as I’m sure you can appreciate, it’s now been over a year and we can’t keep on dealing with your post.”

Come on OP, this is really easily solved.

We’ve been living in our house for 9 years, and sometimes still get mail from previous residents. If there’s a return address on it, I may deign to write ‘return to sender’ on it and put it in a mailbox. If not, it goes in the bin.

I can’t understand why you’re making this your problem. If they don’t care about their mail, why do you?

As for you delivering their mail to them, you’ve got ‘mug’ written all over you.