Wrongly Addressed Post

flea72

had two letters come in the post today, which although they had my address on them, were addressed to another person

now i know someone could get part of their address wrong, ie. wrong house number, or quote their postcode wrong, but this person has done both and somehow managed to give the right ones for my address, strange coincidence?

Ive never had post for this person before, but its really weird that i got two letters today, one addressed to Mrs and the other addressed to Mr, so they must have both given their address wrong to different parties for some reason or other.

ive tried the obvious knocking on doors with similar numbers to me, but their postcodes arent the same as mine

could something dodgy be going on?

i'll be honest i opened one of the letters without realising it wasnt mine, and its offering insurance cover for a TV the person bought last november, so he must have used my address months ago, and now his wife has used it again recently. The second letter i opened too, i dont care, i want to know why they are using my address. This letter is a personal one, nothing interesting but means they have used my address again in the past week, as the letter refers to a phone conversation on Thursday.

I have no idea who these people are, and what i can now do with their mail. Return to sender? But i really want to know, why they dont know their own address

Flea

Minky2Slice

sounds really dodgy though, i would leave it for now, see if you get anything else for them...you dont want these obviously creepy people using your address for illegal purposes..you could 'return to sender' /or notify the senders that they have the wrong address, but then you'd have to do all this at your own expense...which i personally wouldn't...sorry no constructive advice about what you can or perhaps should do...maybe someone else on here will know better...

monkey_writer

write:

'RTS - NOT AT THIS ADDRESS'

on the front of the envelope and stick it back in the post box. No cost to you and Royal Mail will return it to the sender.

It's really all you can do as it's illegal to open someone else's mail...

NastyMatt

Not too sure why they would use your address as they will never see the mail. Credit ratings are based on the person not the address.. so again - no use.

All that needs to happen is the wrong address get in the hands of one of these mail shot companies (they'll hand it round to others!!) and you'll be getting loads of incorrectly addressed mail

Probably just a mistake.

I used to get tons of mail to my flat addressed to the previous tenants (4 sets of them!!) I just wrote "No longer at this address" and chucked them all back in the mail box.

amazon_spice

monkey_writer wrote:

write:

'RTS - NOT AT THIS ADDRESS'

on the front of the envelope and stick it back in the post box. No cost to you and Royal Mail will return it to the sender.

It's really all you can do as it's illegal to open someone else's mail...

That's what I'd do.

myrnahaz

Two things - register with the mailing preference service (it can be done online in seconds) and request that only mail adressed to you/your partner etc is to be sent to you. That way, any mail adressed to Joe Bloggs at your address will be withheld by the postman. You can also stop junk mail using this service.

Secondly, make sure yours are the only details on the electoral register (you can do this by phone) - this will stop mail for previous occupants coming to you from dodgy marketing people who took the name from the register.

Little_John

as sugested before, stick it back in the mail not known at this address. We received some post for a neighbour and my mum would post it through their door, this becomes a problem as if they purposfully use another address and you post it through they still get the mail and any comeback against them is logged aginst your address. If it was an unpaid loan/credit card then it would affect the credit rating of the home owner which is you.

Aparently one of the items we received was a certification of our double glazing from safestyle UK Our windows had been installed about 7 years ago and not by safestyle. not a big problem but if they failed to pay the bill safestyle have our address as contact.

Mrsbojangles_2

I have had this problem too, but when I put RTS Not known at this address, it was put through my letterbox again the next day by the postman. I had a look on their website and it claimed because the address is correct it will just keep coming back to me??

taxi97w

flea72 wrote:

i'll be honest i opened one of the letters without realising it wasnt mine, and its offering insurance cover for a TV the person bought last november,
Flea

That sounds like he may be trying to evade paying the TV licence.

kittiwoz

It could just be a mistake if the person has a similar adress. When I lived with my parents we once got some mail to our address but with a different name. My dad realised that it was the name of someone who had recently moved to the road so I took the letter round to them and explained that the house number was wrong and that the houses on that road all had names, not numbers. Our house name being the number that it was before they subdivided the plots to build extra houses and got rid of the numbers. The man was quite insistant that the address must be correct because he had been told it by the estate agent. However he must have decided in the end that I did know the address of the house I'd been brought up in since we stopped getting his mail.

Alternately if the type of mail you're getting for them looks like junk they may just be giving it as a false address to avoid ending up on mailing lists. I used my former address and former flatmates name to get sponsorsed points which allowed me to use a website once. Bit mean I know but she was a horrible person.

Also is it a full address? Because at one house I was at in Rusholme we got mail intended for the same house number and road name but in a different part of Manchester. We only realised because they had put a postcode which wasn't M14.

CIS

Often when people give an address, companies just take a postcode and house number. If they get the postcode wrong then it would show the wrong address,