Previous house owners post

[Ezs23]

Moved in at the end of Feb, have received quite a lot of their post despite them setting up a redirection after picking a load of post up at the start of March. It looks like important stuff (HMRC etc) and he runs his own business so lots of letters coming addressed to the business. I don't particularly want to see them again as they didn't leave the house as agreed and when he came round last we had words. I just want to enjoy the house and forget about the previous owners. If I stick it all in a post box with 'not at this address' on it, will it find its way to them via the redirection they've set up? The haven't given me a new address but I have a feeling they're still on our estate. I'm trying to be reasonable and I don't want to lose their post but equally don't see why I should be storing so much of it for them (literally about 40 letters so far.)

Do what you say. Redirect doesn't always work. In another two months, just bin. People too lazy to change addresses don't get post.

If they'd set up a redirect you wouldn't have received their post.
Can you compromise and ask them to collect - just the once - and when you see them ask them to set up a redirect, and if they don't, do the return to sender thing?

Return it all to sender with MOVED scrawled on it, and it will soon dry up.
They either didn't really set up a redirection, or didn't do it properly.

They will have had to set up a redirection for both the company & the personal mail, and it's more expensive to set up a company redirect. And afted 6 years, the VAT people still haven't redirected my mail properly (and yes, I do tell them every time...)

But I'd print out labels saying "Not Known - Return To Sender", stick them on the letters & put them in the postbox.

I wouldn't be passing in on to them. That means they can use your address for stuff or could affect your credit rating or cause other situations if it looks like they are still registered at your address or there's a business in your house.

We've been sending everything back with 'not at this address'. Banks etc got the clue quite quickly but we still get the odd bit of junk mail for them 2 years later.

Mark it “unknown, return to sender” and pop it back in the post box. It works eventually! Not your responsibility to receive and forward someone else’s mail (especially when the property handover wasn’t pleasant)

Credit ratings go with the person, not the address these days. Even so, returning mail to sender is the way to go. You can check with Companies House via the free beta service whether your address is still the registered office address of the company. If it is, you can notify Companies House that this is incorrect.

3years and we still get post!! Bank /college /pension /specsavers /vets / Christmas cards!! Bin most of them!!

The only piece of mail we couldn't get dealt with by returning to sender was from a Registrar regarding a share holding. I had to complete a form and gave the vendors' solicitor's contact details to get that sorted out. It seems to have worked.

Thanks everyone. Will bung them in the post this afternoon.
They already came round once to collect and I told them we'd been receiving loads but they said they'd sort a redirect. At the same time they accused us of trying to keep a mirror of theirs even though they didn't leave any mirrors so I'm not inclined to go overboard trying to help them. I definitely don't think they've done a redirect for the company, especially if it costs more as they seem to be incredibly tight.

The least you can have to do with them, the best.

Just scrawl RTS and shove in post.

Just over a year and we r still getting Tesco club card statements, bank statements etc, u think they would have sorted it by now, we get more post for them than us. And we have no forwarding address. Gave it to the landlord a few times.

Just bin it

If you stuff instead of returning it to sender you will continue to receive it.

Yes definitely put them in the post return to sender.
I really don't understand why they wouldn't set up a redirect but there you go.

To all the people saying bin it, that's why you get so much. I used to move house often renting and some houses had multiple previous junk mail arriving.
I could get rid of nearly all within a couple of months by just writing ", moved out" and posting it in the letter box.
If you save it or Chuck it out it will probably never stop.

We have lived here 19 years and still get Xmas cards for the previous people.

It’s it illegal to bin pod that isn’t yours? Just as a side note. If you start returning, people will stop sending.

Same thing happened to us. We returned to the previous owner face to face for the first two months (he moved over the road temporarily) and then we started returning to sender. We've been here 2 years now and get a letter every month or so, sometimes less. Just put it back in the post when you get a moment.

When we moved in we were still getting loads of post for the previous vendor. They left us a note asking if we could post any mail onto them whilst they got the mail redirection set up / notified all companies of their new address. Fine. We did. But the post kept coming and I was having to drag to the post office about once a week to send them a jiffy bag full of post at my own expense, and it didn't look like they had set up mail redirection at all.

After two months I'd had enough and just started putting it back in the mail with 'no longer at this address - return to sender' on it.

I agree that if you bin it they will just keep sending it. I got loads at the beginning but by diligently writing on it Not Known - Return to Sender (with the return address circled) after several months I now get very little. Yes, it’s a pain but you’re making less irritation for yourself in the long run.

If you are annoyed at e previous occupant for not leaving hte house as agreed, its a no brainer.

Moved - Return to sender and put a sticker over the window / writing so it deffo goes back to the sender and doesnt get forwarded to their new address.

Problem solved. It may be a tad spiteful, but its what im currently doing as my vendors were liars and jerks who were beyond a joke

We coldly return to sender. Tax stuff, car finance and insurance stuff, everything.

Also keep returning white company catalogues addressed to the owners before them but the cheeky buggers keep on sending them, probably hoping I'll cave and buy something myself.