Friend using my address for post

It's pretty much a non-issue. So long as you trust them. If they get in debt, non of their debts can be passed on to you.

Suppose it all depends on how much of a friend you are.

I'd probably not allow them to register as living there though i.e. on the electoral role, as then it could cause an issue if you ever to need to claim certain benefits or grants.

I lived on a boat sailing around various parts of the world for the best part of 5 years, and used a friend's or families address. No problem for either of us.

In fact, I often still do as I regularly hop from country to country. Unfortunately the systems as they are designed, can't handle people that follow the norm. So mailboxes don't really work for most things.
 
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I have a similar thing going on except instead of someone else's mail turning up at my house it's this fairly goodlooking guy who keeps asking if my wife is home and then she'll rush downstairs, often looking quite glam now I think about it, and shoosh me into the lounge and then I don't see her for 4 or 5 hours - sometimes not even to the next morning - and oh no I've made a huge mistake.
 
englishpremier said:
It's pretty much a non-issue. So long as you trust them. If they get in debt, non of their debts can be passed on to you.
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^^^ this

Not quite sure what has prompted the debt collection scaremongering as if that's somehow a normal situation! A guy who lives on a boat (presumably as in a canal boat without a mooring else he'd be able to get post at his marina or mooring) is more likely the complete opposite in terms of spending/lifestyle to the type of person who has racked up huge credit card debts from clothes shopping or taken out a car loan on a BMW he can't afford.

It doesn't impact the OP's credit rating even if he did rack up debts, debt collectors can be told he doesn't live there and to go away, even with a CCJ they can't enter uninvited. It's only high court enforcement officers where there may be an issue but they also can't seize goods if he doesn't live there and doesn't have any property there.
 
[FnG]magnolia said:
I have a similar thing going on except instead of someone else's mail turning up at my house it's this fairly goodlooking guy who keeps asking if my wife is home and then she'll rush downstairs, often looking quite glam now I think about it, and shoosh me into the lounge and then I don't see her for 4 or 5 hours - sometimes not even to the next morning - and oh no I've made a huge mistake.
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That joke might work if we believed that you could actually find a woman crazy enough to marry your delirious ass :p
 
Exactly the same as getting random letters for an ex tenant in a rented house, a complete non issue. No one's going to be tying you to them in any way what so ever.
 
JUMPURS said:
I wouldn't let it happen, can open all sorts of stuff on your credit file depending what loans etc. they take out. Think they can also get tagged as a known person on your credit file, and if they have bad credit, it will impact yours.

If they are a friend of a family member, why they not using the family members adress, or maiboxesetc for 30 quid a month?
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Sorry that's just completely inaccurate.

Credit is linked by name and DOB not just the address, so unless the guy has the same name and DOB it won't affect anything.

The only potential is for bailiffs to turn up if the person gets in bad debt, but they cannot do anything other than disturb you.
 
It wouldn't bother me much. As mentioned I don't think the credit issue is a problem. Some things such as the registered keeper for a car can't be listed at a PO Box.

But I would still only do it for a family member or well trusted friend. I wouldn't be doing it for a friend of a family member that I don't know very well.

Edit: Also does postman delivery post when rough seas?
 
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englishpremier said:
It's pretty much a non-issue. So long as you trust them. If they get in debt, non of their debts can be passed on to you.

Suppose it all depends on how much of a friend you are.
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Well, from the description of 'a friend of a family member' rather than 'my friend', that would suggest they aren't even friends at all, probably acquaintances at best, which is just a bit odd really.

Why wouldn't the person needing mail either ask the family member they are friends with or one of their own friends? Although again, the language used doesn't actually suggest they have even asked, more like they've just started getting some of their mail sent to the house of a relative of their friend. Odd behaviour that would make me at least a tiny bit suspicious of the reasoning for doing so.
 
One way to put a stop to it would be to mark all mail as "NOT AT THIS ADDRESS", put a line through your address, ring the return address, then pop it back in the postbox.

If the friend doesn't get the message, the senders certainly will.
 
a1ex2001 said:
I’d change jobs I’m to invested in flexible working to even consider and office role again even if it was mega bucks!
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I don't work in an office. Like you, I said I'd never do an office job again, well not unless it's back in the space industry and I wasn't stuck in the office permanently. But that's a moot point, it's never going to happen now. :mad:
 
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