Classic fraud. You will get visitations from private investigators/bailiffs/police if this continues. Mark every item other than obvious junk, "addressee moved 06/07" and put into a post box.
Mail for previous occupiers
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In a new address youu tend to get other mail for a good 6-8 months and then it dries up a bit but doesnt ever seem to totally stop, stuff like mobile phone bills, dvla, pay slips we still get from the previous owners!! How you can forget to inform those places you have moved is beyond me. I kept them for a month and then ditched them, they didnt leave a forwarding address and i did send back about 20. Im not spending time sorting someone elses mail, bin it.
1) Put it all in a plastic bag in the back of a cupboard somewhere and forget it.
2) Pay for a redirection (where to though?) from your local post office. Can a PO redirection be a return to sender? Although you will have to pay out a tiny bit of money, doing this may save a lot of cost and hassle further down the line if something dodgy is going on.
3) Have a large rubber stamp made which says "Not known at this address. Return to sender."
4) Open all mail and use anything useful for personal gain. Might be bit illegal.
A small point - if you have been leaving mail in a publically accessible mailbox you do not know who has actually been collecting it. You have probably left enough stuff down there for someone to set up a nice little identity theft scam. If something dodgy is going on and the previous occupier suffers financially, he may even have a legal case against you due to your "negligence". The law is an ass. Never forget that.
2) Pay for a redirection (where to though?) from your local post office. Can a PO redirection be a return to sender? Although you will have to pay out a tiny bit of money, doing this may save a lot of cost and hassle further down the line if something dodgy is going on.
3) Have a large rubber stamp made which says "Not known at this address. Return to sender."
4) Open all mail and use anything useful for personal gain. Might be bit illegal.
A small point - if you have been leaving mail in a publically accessible mailbox you do not know who has actually been collecting it. You have probably left enough stuff down there for someone to set up a nice little identity theft scam. If something dodgy is going on and the previous occupier suffers financially, he may even have a legal case against you due to your "negligence". The law is an ass. Never forget that.
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In my old flat we got heaps of stuff, usually always looked like "warning, you owe us lots of money" letters from people. As people have suggested the return to sender, recipient no longer lives at this address, works well.
Do it for everything, including junk-mail. Felt sorry for the postman though, what a waste of their time.
Do it for everything, including junk-mail. Felt sorry for the postman though, what a waste of their time.
We moved in just before Christmas 06 and still get mail for the previous owners. It's finally starting to die down now, 11 months on. We write on it "not at this address, please remove from mailing list" or "not at this address, return to sender" and it seems the message is finally getting through.
The dog tore open one for them from the council a while back and it was a court summons for outstanding council tax from ages ago
- iirc we taped it up and sent it back and not heard from the council again. It was strange though as they'd had mail from the council before which we'd 'return to sendered' so not sure why the summons came to our address.
The dog tore open one for them from the council a while back and it was a court summons for outstanding council tax from ages ago
- iirc we taped it up and sent it back and not heard from the council again. It was strange though as they'd had mail from the council before which we'd 'return to sendered' so not sure why the summons came to our address.Nope, nothing wrong with that at all. 13 months on from moving in to our place and we still get mail for the previous occupiers. Its slowed down to the odd letter here or there but for some time there was more post for them than there was for us
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we still get mail for the previous occupants and we have been here 3 years, at first we wrote on not at this address etc and reposted them but after 6 months of doing that we now just bin them
'RTS' on big letters on the envolope and back in the post box is slowly lowering the ammount I get for previous occupants. NatWest also send a letter to the homeowner asking for confirmation that the other people had indeed left. Maybe other companies will do that too if they get mail bouncing back.
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go to the mailing preference service web site here
www.mpsonline.org.uk
and register their names and your address and it cuts right down almost everything within 28 days
www.mpsonline.org.uk
and register their names and your address and it cuts right down almost everything within 28 days
If you do nothing or simply bin the mail then you will just continue to recieve more and more.
For the sake of 10 seconds work just write "Return to Sender - Unknown at address" and post it back.
When we moved into our new house we started off with loads of mail.
About 2 months of returning everything and now we get nothing for the previous owners.
For the sake of 10 seconds work just write "Return to Sender - Unknown at address" and post it back.
When we moved into our new house we started off with loads of mail.
About 2 months of returning everything and now we get nothing for the previous owners.
We get loads for the previous family, but even more junk that we sign each other up for. The next person to move in here is going to carry on getting bombarded when we've left, there's no one place that we want all this junk forwarding to 