Just received a cert of destruction, vehicle not mine

continualdiamond

Got the post and it was addressed to someone who doesn't live here, house number and street name was correct, which is why it came to my place, but post code was wrong. But with no return address on the back, so opened the letter.

So did a search of the post code on royal mail website to see what address it matched up to, completely different village though still in the same town.

Rang the company who destroyed the vehicle who asked if i had ever owned the vehicle, which i haven't and said it was just a record for the owner to keep to say the vehicle had been destroyed.

Will any ownership fall back of me? As i am concerned as to why the owner of the vehicle gave a false address, why just pick a house # and street name out of thin air but put your post code down. The letter also has a place for the owner of the vehicle to sign as the company who destroyed the vehicle have signed and dated it.

What do i do with it, just keep it incase anything results from it?

Lum

That certificate is intended for when the DVLA balls up and send you a fine for having not renewed your road tax. You send them a copy of that certificate along with a letter politely telling them where to stick their fine and that's the end of the matter.

The certificate is issued by the scrap yard, not the DVLA, so I guess the owner didn't give their postcode and the scrap yard have done a look up on the address and found your post code.

The DVLA aren't going to come hassling you about this car, so you have nothing to worry about. The former owner of the car may later find themselves stuck with a DVLA trying to fine them £80 and they have no proof that the car is taxed so you may wish to drop that letter off at their house if you're passing, or forward it on to them. Or you could just bin it.

continualdiamond

Thanks for the info, but they didn't find my postcode, the post code is wrong for my address. It is only the #, street and town that is correct. My address should have a village name before the town name, but that is missing as well.

Royal mail delivered to the #/street and not the post code.

I did a find an address based on the post code on the royalmail website so the post code does exist, however is is not the post code relating to the house #. So i have no idea what house # they live at on that street matching to the post code they put down. As i was thinking if they lived at the same house # as me i would drop this letter off, but i can't.

alanrowell

If you have a name then see if they appear on BT as it will also give the address including postcode.

In any case postcode is for a few houses only so at worst you scratch out your address and stick it through a random letterbox in that postcode

Lum

So #, street and post town match, but not the village or post code. The letter is probably correctly addressed.

So there's probably another village under the same post town that happens to have a street of the same name, and the post code will match this street.

Just take it to your nearest post office and explain that they have delivered this to the wrong place and they should take it back from you and deliver it correctly without you having to go out of your way to deliver it.

custardy

seal it up
write on it
not at "insert your own postcode here" with a line through the address
pop it in a postbox

mark5

OP did the letter have a name who it was addressed to?

continualdiamond

Yep had a name, first and surname of who it was addressed too.

I have checked my street name to see if it exists in my town anywhere else and my street name is the only one for this area, which explains why the letter came to me as the house # and street name is correct.

The post code on the letter matches to the same town, but a different village.

I have tried electrol roll information and white pages online, get a few matches, but only 1 that is free, rest i have to pay to view the address further.

zax47

You have their name and some of the address? Look up their phone number on BT.com - it will have their address and postcode which you can cross-reference with what you have, to correctly re-post it. {of course this fails if they are ex-directory!}

mazza111

Put it back in the envelope and mark on it, NOT AT THIS ADDRESS. I will find it's way back to the original sender eventually, it's not addressed to you, so therefore not your concern.

continualdiamond

Ex directy number, couldn't match the details i have.

I know who sent it because i opened the letter and rang the company who had sent it, explaining that the person in question who had their car destroyed does not live at the address they gave you.

They told me to not worry about it, as it was info for the owner of the vehicles reference and that the owner didn't have the log book. I just hope my address hasn't been used by this person regarding the vehicle in question with the DVLA. That is my concern as to why the person felt they had to give a false house # and street name to then not recieve confirmation that their car has been destroyed.