How do I stop previous owners post arriving

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We moved into our house in November. The previous owner did her best to prevent us getting any of her contact details - we think for reasons to do with wanting to not be findable by an abusive ex-partner. So we didn't push it, even though it would have been very convenient at times to contact her.

We are still receiving her post though, and despite RTS'ing anything that looked important for the last few months, we're now getting sick of it. Is there any way to get it re-directed without contacting her?

edit: inb4 poop through my own letterbox
 
Poop through.... oh :(

We have the same issue to be honest. We just keep RTS'ing, some were clearly bus lane fines and bank account stuff. I have no idea why some people don't see this as a priority when they move and/or manage their accounts.

Some are a neighbours, but i warned them to update their address and it's been a year now, so **** them.
 
Ring the companies sending the mail and tell them she is no longer at that address.
 
Are you writing "no longer at this address" when you return to sender? That's all we've ever done.
 
We get this occasionally, letters for the previous owner. If it's something official looking, I just write "No longer resides at this address - return to sender" and stick it back in the postbox. Thing is, around Christmas, we get a glut of Christmas cards for her, often dropped through the door personally, so no way of tracing the sender.
 
Rossi~ said:
Poop through.... oh :(

We have the same issue to be honest. We just keep RTS'ing, some were clearly bus lane fines and bank account stuff
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that's interesting, i'd've thought bus lane fines would be genned from DVLA data, and that would imply those records are wrong too, that's a £1k fine too apparently.
 
I still get post for previous occupants at my house and I've been there 16 years :(

Recently made a complaint to Yorkshire bank, hoping they have at least got the message now....
 
I have same issue like serious amounts. 20+ a week magazines and all sorts.

We've been doing RTS but have also signed up to this https://www.mpsonline.org.uk

I can only assume a lot of mail is direct marketing as they were old as we now keep getting cruises and stuff through.
 
Have you been putting no longer at this address when RTSing?
Otherwise nothing you can do as far as I'm aware, every house gets loads of junk from old owners.
 
I get stuff for the 3 x previous owners, the oldest one having left some 12 years ago
One time I got some pension statements so phoned up the Pension Company and they said they were legally obliged to keep sending them to the address until they were advised by the customer otherwise

On another occasion, and a different house, on continually receiving comms from Barclays, I got fed up, phoned them up, and explained that I'd moved into the house 8 years ago and the previous owners had moved out, because the husband was terminally ill (<6 months to go). The guy on the phone rather helpfully pulled up the husband's banking records and could see that transactions had stopped around that time and deleted him off the mailing list
 
We have this problem somewhat at out new (6 months) house. I strongly suspect that it's been largely deliberate. A lot of it looks from the envelope like fines and invoices - and there's a few we've opened before we realised and had that impression confirmed.

Those we've opened, we've contacted the creditor direct to let them know, others we've RTS. It does seem to have slackened off somewhat, but the previous tenant (the house was rented before we bought it) was getting bills to this address from dozens of organisations.
 
Write a letter to manager of your local delivery office requesting that mail to that occupant is R.T.S'd at the depot and not delivered to you.

I am not sure if they will still do this but it was quite common to have to filter out mail during round sorting when I was a postie. They could only do it with a written request from the current occupant for legal reasons, so I don't for certain if further proof of I.D. was required.
 
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