Should I open it?

don1too

Hi everybody,

I have just received a letter addressed to someone who does not live at my address & I do not know.

In fact this is the 3rd or 4th letter I have rec'd addressed to this person. In the past, I have marked the envelope 'Not Known at this Address, Return to Sender' and re-posted them.

The return address is on the reverse of the envelope, it is PO Box 7380, Glasgow, G51 9BF.

Obviously the sender is taking no notice of the returned letters.

The envelope is marked 'Private & Confidential - Addressee Only'.

Through the envelope window I can see a 'PayPoint' symbol, so I am guessing this has a finacial context.

Should I continue to return these letters marked 'Not Known at this Address',
disregard them and throw them away or should I open it, to find out what's going on?

Your opinions would be much appreciated.

Thank you.

wallbash

Google post code

its MacKenzie Hall
Plenty of info on MSE

don1too

Thanks wallbash, I did google the post code, and found MH seem to have something to do with it.

Would you suggest I continue returning them, bin them, or open it to find out what's going on?

I don't know the addressee, it certainly isn't the previous occupier and I have been at this address for 20+ years.

Could someone have stolen my address details to obtain credit, or is this company trying on something underhand?

DCFC79

Get a credit report to be sure that no1 has stolen your id, is it possible its a previous tennant or have you lived at the address for a long tome

Alikay

If you've lived in your house for some time and it's not a previous occupant, I'd be inclined to open it just to check it wasn't anyone using my address fraudulently. We had something happen like this - letters were coming from a debt collection agency for some years-old mobile phone account in a name we'd never heard of. After returning the letters to sender and them still continuing, I called them up and told them how long we'd lived there and had never heard of the individual. They must've sorted it out because we didn't hear again after that. We also checked our credit files just to make sure nothing was logged against us, and it was (and has remained) OK. God knows how they came to have our address to start with but having worked with large databases in the past I imagine it could've originated with a simple mis-keyed postcode.

Enfieldian

It would be difficult for someone to get credit at your address without using your name, especially if you are the only one on the electoral roll for the last 20 years.

It is possible that someone has given a random address to a creditor before they defaulted on an account.

I know of a case where somebody had a mobile phone and was paying on time every month, then the phone was stolen and he had no insurance so he just changed his address to a random one online to divert all correspondance and washed his hands of it!

Judging from the above post, it sounds like Alikay was on the other end of my "friend's" actions!

don1too

Thanks to you all.

This is from Credit Solutions Ltd looking to recover a mobile phone debt.

I have emailed them. Just have to wait and see how they reply.

fengirl_2

It is unlawful to open post addressed to someone else. You should have continued to return the letters unopened and they would eventually stop. How is this company going to beleive that you are not the addressee just by receiving a random email? By opening the letter, you are signalling to them that you are the addressee.

Enfieldian

fengirl wrote: »

It is unlawful to open post addressed to someone else.

Absolute rubbish in this case.

If the letter has been delivered to your address you are well within your rights to open it.

Do check first to see if there is a policeman hiding inside the envelope just in case though.........

olly300

fengirl wrote: »

It is unlawful to open post addressed to someone else. You should have continued to return the letters unopened and they would eventually stop. How is this company going to beleive that you are not the addressee just by receiving a random email? By opening the letter, you are signalling to them that you are the addressee.

I suggest you find the piece of legislation that backs up the myth you are perpetuating.

OP and anyone else the Postal Services Act 2000 states:

(3) A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2000/ukpga_20000026_en_8#pt5-pb1-l1g84

sarahg1969

olly300 wrote: »

I suggest you find the piece of legislation that backs up the myth you are perpetuating.

OP and anyone else the Postal Services Act 2000 states:


http://www.opsi.gov.uk/ACTS/acts2000/ukpga_20000026_en_8#pt5-pb1-l1g84

I agree. Why DO people insist on spouting this nonsense?