Ex Tennant still causing hassles

tbs624

Bambi234 wrote: »

.....We still get letters for him, virtually all of them demanding money, and hassles from various phone calls asking his whereabouts and how can they get in contact with him, and knowing they think we are lying, just covering up or he is still there

Point them in the direction of his Facebook page or give them a screen dump from it It's an offence for anyone to pursue *you* for a debt which is not yours, but you should, as someone else has posted, consider checking your own credit ratings with Experian, Callcredit and Equifax. Ask them to put a note on your files that this person has no shared finances with you and no longer resides at this address.

On the rent issue, if he has other people chasing him for unpaid debts what chance do you seriously think you have of getting anything out of him? Let it go and move forward. There are two sides to every story and it often isn't easy for a lodger if s/he effectively becomes their LL's gooseberry when the LL's partner also moves in. If people are juvenile enough to rant about it on Facebook I'd leave them to it: he is probably hoping for a response from you. However, if he posts anything that verges on the libellous you could always send a solcitor's letter warning him of the potential consequences.

bryanb

Strapped wrote: »

Stop opening his mail - it's an offence - and just return to sender. Eventually it will stop coming.

Ignore his letters/phonecalls/facebook comments/etc and get a life.

It's not an offence

jojo9239

bryanb wrote: »

It's not an offence

Royal Mail deliver to an address not a name so if the mail has ure address on it u can open it (i work for RM) if it had next doors address on yes it is an offence

Strapped

Interfering with mail - Postal Services Act 2000 Section 84

"A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, opens a postal packet which they know or suspect to have been delivered incorrectly".

I guess I must have interpreted this wrongly. Either way, my advice to OP remains the same.

tbs624

jojo9239 wrote: »

Royal Mail deliver to an address not a name so if the mail has ure address on it u can open it (i work for RM) if it had next doors address on yes it is an offence

You may want to have a look at the Postal Services Act 2000 S84 (3) as quoted by Strapped. Depends on what gets classified as a reasonable excuse. Mistakes are sometimes made with addresses - it does not mean that you should randomly have the right to open post addressed to someone else that may turn up with your address on it. If it has someone else's name on it's pretty clear it's not intended for you.

bryanb

tbs624 wrote: »

You may want to have a look at the Postal Services Act 2000 S84 (3) as quoted by Strapped. Depends on what gets classified as a reasonable excuse. Mistakes are sometimes made with addresses - it does not mean that you should randomly have the right to open post addressed to someone else that may turn up with your address on it. If it has someone else's name on it's pretty clear it's not intended for you.

As said it's the address that matters not the person it's intended for. There is no question of incorrect delivery in this instance.

mazza111

So if this person had applied for a credit card whilst living at this address. It would be ok for the "landlords" to open it?

According to our delivery office manager, it's still illegal to open any letter addressed to someone else. Although it would be very difficult to prove who had opened the mail, therefore it's highly unlikely that anyone would be prosecuted for it.

As for the original poster, return all their mail back to sender, it's not your concern. If any one comes to your door i would be tempted to deal with it then, or if you get any phone calls then deal with it. But still wouldn't open anyone else's mail.

Bambi234

Greetings,
thank you to all of you for your replies, we were a sort of aware that opening mail was not strictly legal, but the OH banks with the same bank as he did, so one morning sleepily she opened a letter from Lloyds TSB ( cough cough).

I think now that I have shown her of the various replies on here she is a bit mellower. One of the big things once I think she was worried about the house being blacklisted.

Trying to find him through various other contacts is in progress but it is slow.

Sorry it has taken me so long to reply, but work tend not to pay me if I don't turn up, they're funny like that.

Once again your advice is much appreciated

Bambi

adg1

DawnW wrote: »

Check your credit files too, though it is individuals who get bad credit ratings, not addresses.

Credit reports do affect the address if they have no luck finding the culprit.