I am fed up with receiving letters for the people that used to live in our house over 2 and a half yrs ago, and today this letter that came for them really took the biscuit!

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Crumbs I sound moany!

TBH I would love to just rip the letter up I am that fed up of receiving their post! They get more than we do! But toady, it was so obvious that it was not just an ordinary letter, so I looked through the envelope in the light and discovered it was a cheque for nearly £3000 ! Why have they not told people they have moved????? This is not the first cheque we have passed on to them, the kast time the cheque was for £5000. (that was last year!)

Surely this old couple have more money than sense.

TBH I popped the last cheque round to them (most of their other post I now just throw) I was so cross as they never even thanked me! Part of me just wants to throw it in the bin, esp what we have just unearthed in the kitchen due to the DH doing(or should I say playing at ELECTRICIANS!)

But I will be very good and tomorrow I will deliver cheque with a smile(grimace)

Thats the funny thing, we have had no Xmas cards for them, even though we moved in beg of Nov! So obviously they have their priorities right!

Bin it then tell them "by the way a cheque for 3k arrived for you the other day, can't recall where i left it now mind you....." That'll teach 'em.

Last year we had a Halifax credit card arrive on our doorstep for the previous owners. 7 days later the PIN arrived for it

Good job i'm an honest person and told the bank. I know for a fact many wouldn't!

How do you know it's a cheque? Are you opening the mail?

my previous owners do this to me. initially i wrote their address on the envelope, but since they left the house dirty and dragged the washing machine / dishwasher out gouging deep scratches into the wooden floor i stopped.

i now mark RTS - return to sender - on absolutely everything addressed to them, even junk mail and it's tailed off now. i even got a delivery of contact lenses. after that was returned to the manufacturer i think they were pretty good about changing their address...

so no, i wouldn't drop their cheque off, i'd return it to the bank. let them sort it out.

We still get mail as well and I always put return to sender. I was forwarding it on for a while but then they moved again and didn't give me their address so I thought sod it. The longest you can do a proper redirection is 2 years so I always make sure I pay for that when I move and I write to tell every company/person I can think of (costs a fortune too) - obviously things still get through but it is worrying that such important things are coming through to you. They must be very scatterbrained but even if they are - a thank you goes a long way. I would take the cheque around and drop a letter in with it saying PLEASE inform all your companies/friends that you have moved. If they don't then just mark return to sender OR write their new address on and eventually the postman will start charging them for redelivery.

This happens for us too - the previous owners got about 5 times the amount of mail we do! I printed off a few sheets of labels - some with their new address - we forwarded important looking things, and loads with return to sender - it saved having to write on each envelope.

The person before us had ran up huge debts too about £10,000 worth we get calls and letters all the time.

we moved house 18 months ago and paid the post office to have a forwarding service it wasnt cheap but we didnt want the new owner to have the hassle of all the post we received, we also left a pile of big brown stamped addressed envelopes so any stray post could be put in them and forwarded.

I would bin it or put it back in the post box with no longer at this address you have been very patient

Second the RTS/Not At This Address approach.

Three years after moving into our place, we're still getting loads of mail from about five previous tenants (was rented before). I've had county court judgements, threats from bailiffs to come round and remove £20k worth of stuff - you name it.

Have spent a LOT of time on the phone to collection agencies and similar, sent back a lot of junk mail, cheques, bank statements and payslips, and am now sick of it so anything personal looking goes straight in the bin. I don't have their new addresses, BTW, so am not purely being awkward.

No I didn't open this letter, it had Private and Confidential on it and looked rather official, so I held it up to window and could see that there was a cheque in it.

We have millions of these.. the woman who owned the house before us had lodgers so there are letters for about 12 different people that come through the door.

EVERYTHING that is not for us has gone back in the postbox with 'return to sender' on it... they've pretty much stopped now. Took about 6 months though!

YANBU- i hate it too.

the people who used to live in our house tried to buy a house overseas, using OUR address!!!

grrr

I once had a lorry load of bricks arrive for the previous owners .

We once lived in a house formerly occupied by the people who wrote 'What Doctors Don't Tell You' - the book and spin-off magazines. Every day there would be letters and cheques from people all over the world wanting info and/or publications. I rang them a few times about this and they did nothing.

We left that house four years ago and the current occupiers are STILL getting post for them. There comes a point where you really do just have to bin the lot if people can't be bothered doing a redirection of mail.

Give them this last cheque and say NO MORE!

Oh, think I prefer the letters!!!!
(that does put things into prospectus!) LOL

the people who were here before us were really dodgy and left trail of debt in there wake according to landlady.weve not opened the post but give it all to post office.there was even an envelope with one of sons school logo on it-so they hadnt even told the school!

We got stickers printed off in the end "Not known at this address, please return to sender".

It still took about 6 months, and one debt collection agency phone call (or more to the point, a letter addressed to "current occupiers" asking me to phone them, at which point I gave them the agent's address and he went to speak to them!!), but they stopped in the end!

you can mail preference other people who used to live at your address so that it gets screened out

Right, starting from Monday that is what I am going to do! I will take this letter round to them, but I will put a very polite note on it saying how much post we are still getting and in future I will be returning everything back to sender!

not read whole thread but in their defence they may have written with change of details to all these people and they may not have updated their database - that happens an awful lot, or they update one address but it doesn't feed through to all departments (has happened to me on numerous occasions).

We had this with the people I bought this house from 2.5 years ago. When new passports and driving licenses arrived recently with our address on them I chucked my toys out of the pram and reported them to the passport office & dvla as I believe they were trying to do something dodgy, (not sure what though), they emigrated to Spain when we moved in so it was all very strange!

Wisteria, I don't think this is the case, they only set up short change of address with PO, whilst we paid for a yr. Honestly, the amount of mail we get for them still is a joke, and when this particular letter came with a decent amount of cash written in a form of a cheque (its not the 1st time either!)

They get more post than we do!

I know exactly what you mean. We have lived here nearly 2 years and we still get bills from the students who lived here before us. I do not know how many lived in the house but we are getting bills still as I am assuming they are still using this address to open accounts. I have lost the will to live in contacting the companies in telling them they have moved as it is costing us money in phone calls. We origionally got the names of five people but now it has gone up to eight and they are not from the uk and think they are possibly using other names to open accounts with various banks and mobile phone companies. we received a letter from the library the other day telling us that the book they have ordered has arrived, so they are still using this address, obviously I have told them that they are no longer here....the bloody cheek of it. all i can say is gggrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!

The day I had my little tantrum, I had received 20 letters - some of which were clearly from debt collection agencies......interestingly enough since I got 'angry' we have had hardly any mail and what I do get goes straight into the recycling bin (it is all junk mail before anyone flays me !!)

Is it possible to block mail addressed to specified [sp] names through the mail preferance service?

I have had this problem with the former tenants here, lots of debt collection agencied, and a bailiffs visit. I know the former tenants are only just round the corner, but I just say they have not been here since xx and leave it, I don't want more hassle on the doorstep

I'd return it to sender with a note in saying their new address.
And put a note through their door saying a cheque came and you have returned it to sender and perhaps they'd like to arrange redirection with Royal Mail.