People down the road with no address using ours!

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We live on a road with a camping/touring park down the end. There’s only 4 addresses on our road (including the holiday park)
we often get loads of post for random people whom we assumed lived here previously but from years ago (we suspect it was an unofficial HMO at some point due the Yale locks on every internal door so not an issue, they just get binned)

we had a few Amazon packages delivered here by people staying at the park and needing an address to send it to (without asking) Annoying but fine.

about a year ago, the manager of the park knocked on the door asking for their credit card!!! (I must have binned it but said I hadn’t seen anything) turns out that they can’t get a bank account due to no address (they live in a big caravan with their feral kids on the park so no address) bad credit and this card was their only way of getting money. It took us flippin ages to get it removed from our address as the company refused to make amendments without full details etc.

Ive just had an Amazon delivery in their name! (Partner took it in thinking it was for us)

AIBU - suck it up and behave like a good neighbour and wait for them to collect

YANBU - leave the parcel outside in the pouring rain with a note asking not to use our address again

*they are quite loud and scary and I don’t like confrontation

Contact Amazon and return the package.

Just send it back and leave not on door saying only your only accept post for xxx and xxx

I'd start checking the name on every package delivered, and refusing to accept anything that's not for you. In terms of letters, return them as not known at the address rather than binning them - inconvenient, but it means that the sender is made aware

I would also be having notices of disassociation on your credit files!

To add, the holiday park obviously has its own address so wondering why they don’t use that?

Nothing that got sent to my address would ever make it to the people staying in the holiday park. It would mysteriously never have arrived, I never saw it, how unfortunate, so weird, no idea why it would have come to my address, hope you find it soon. As others said, accept nothing that isn't addressed to you. They will soon learn.

You two need to start reading the names of any parcels and signed for letters.

Return this parcel to Amazon.

More often than not the delivery driver leaves parcels in the porch without even knocking! (That’s fine as renovating and have lots of deliveries)

In that case, either contacting the sender for them to be returned, or mysteriously having them disappear and denying all knowledge

Isn't that fraud if they've applied for a credit card using your address? Maybe contact police or Action Fraud etc for advice as they clearly haven't seen the error of their ways!

Sounds like they're even more dodgy than you might think.

If the manager is living at the caravan park then surely he is registered for council tax and also has to pay business rates for the park. So he will have an address. I’d phone the council. And I’d refuse all parcels going forwards.

Don’t bin post or it will keep coming. Write ‘not known at this address, return to sender’ on each piece and put it in a postbox and Royal Mail will return it. Over time it should reduce the amount you get.

They don’t own the park, just manage the day to day stuff. I wonder if the owner doesn’t allow them to use the address?

Definitely this

I would cross out any post and post back with not at this address written on it and you can report unwanted packages to amazon.

We have done this in the past, took a while but they got the message eventually.

This is not good neighbour stuff,this is fraud.

Return to sender or have a box at side of your steps for all mail not addressed to you. What happens to it when it's in the box isn't your problem.

It's fraud. The campsite it not a legal domestic address so they don't pay council tax and they can't get bank accounts etc.

The site will hold a holiday licence and not a Permanent Residence licence.

I’d be contacting the owner of the caravan park and telling them to sort their problem out, and stop making it your problem.

Pop them straight in the bin. Honestly we still get parcels for the business that the person who lived in our house 3 years ago sold 5 years ago, despite returning them all to sender, so I just check them now.

You don't want to give them excuses to keep coming onto your property.

Is that not fraud?

Would Royal Mail return post that it didn't deliver? These are couriers but not necessarily RM ones, I'm guessing?

I know this isn't the OP's problem, though.

Refuse all parcels, tell the delivery driver you have no idea who it is and aren't responsible for their items. All post not for you mark as return to sender not known at this address and straight back into the post box. Keep on doing it, don't give any post to random people at the door.
Just refuse and tell your DH to check it's for you.