pervious tenant still using this address

[sparklymieow]

I have been here 5 years and just got a another letter for the pervious tenant from a stair lift compancy. I opened it (i know naughty) and it says that she spoke to a member of staff a few day ago and that someone would be comtacting her soon about it. Either someone is taking the P*ss out of my kids disabilities or she is still using this address, what should I do???

send it back with 'not known at this address' written on front

we still get letters from her bank too. I find it all a bit strange...

I would do as philippat suggested. Had a few tenants in our place whilst I was overseas and I just write that - not known at this address - please amend records - usually in red marker so they can't miss it. Don't seem to get any of those back again.

After that - anything that comes - bank or whatever goes straight in the bin.....

I'm just wondering why she still using this address, I wonder if she trying to get credit.

We still get stuff for the previous owner of this house and we've lived here for 7.5 years. I just scrawl 'Return to sender - moved away X years ago' on it and shove it back in the mailbox.

Previous owner used this house as his consulting rooms (he was an ENT consultant). We still get referral letters from gps, etc., asking him to take their patient. Most post I just shove back in the postbox with "Moved X years ago" on it, but some, which appear to be referral letters, I contact the sender to advise them so their patient isn't waiting around for months hoping for a reply. I don't know how quickly the post office returns mail.

sparkly - direct marketing is not as erm, truthful as you might think. it might be that the stairlift company never spoke to the prev tennant, or that they spoke to her without asking for the address and just used the file they found.

a more sinister interpreation would be thatthey deliberately suggested she'd spoken to them when she hadn't in order to confuse her.

could just be that she/her bank are a bit disorganised.

I have big stickers that I've printed out that I stick on the envelopes - not lving at this address, please sod off type of thing (more polite though...) - I still get a lot of cr*p for about 4 different names though, so maybe the please sod off wording would work better???

The saddest one is the postcards... a previous tenant's father sends her post cards every few months I wonder what went on for her to have not told him she moved....

agree with SP. I was told on the phone the other day that I had been so helpful recently filling in a questionnaire.... So I told her I'm afraid I hadn't done any such thing, she repleid that perhaps I'd forgotten ,well no, unless I had when I lived here 5 years ago. She agreed it was n't what she'd term recent and rang off. Basically they lie, and make it look as if you have solicited this mail shot/call even when you haven't.

We still get tax stuff mailed for one of our ex-tenants. As it was a company lease, for whom he would probably have been a contractor, we have no forwarding details so I returned it to the Inland Revenue as "moved away - address unknown". Surely they should be able to track him down by his NI number instead. btw isn't it illegal to interfere with someone else's post, be it opening or discarding.