Ex-tenant's mail - what to write on it?

Hopejack

Getting a lot of mail (debts/bills etc from the look of it) for my ex tenant who vacated recently. At present I'm just returning to sender simply saying tenant vacated on - date. Should I be adding anything else. Don't really want to add my contact details as you can imagine but not sure they'll 'go away' with one scribbled line on the front of the envelope which could be from anyone!

picklepick

I always just write something like

'return to sender addressee no longer at this address'

and ive never had any come back or any follow up questioning

sooz

I just write RTS (return to sender) or Moved.

st999

A long time ago I moved into a house (council flat) where the previous tenent had been evicted and got lots of letters for him.

I opened every one carefully and put a letter inside that stated that the person no longer lived there and any further letter would be thrown in the bucket. I then carefully stuck it down with sellotape and wrote return to sender on it and stuck it in the post box.

I kept a note of who the letters were from and if I got another letter from that company it went on the coal fire without ever opening it.

Took a few months but the letters dried up.

Stan

theartfullodger

I'm sure the ex-tenant owes you no money... It would be reprehensible of anyone to open someone else's mail to get personal details of them (DoB, employer, NI number, etc etc..) that might help them track the ex-tenant down to start legal proceedings against them... Yes, very wrong, not recommended...

Cheers!

Lodger

Hopejack

Lodger

Geenie

Elvis Presley had the very same problem, and sang about it! ............."Return to sender, address unknown"

Do not open other peoples mail. I think you will find it is illegal. We have been living in our present place for 5 years, and still get mail redirected from our previous house some times. Mainly obscure stuff it has to be said. Your LA or LL should have a forwarding address, and I would suggest contacting them first.....if not then return to Royal Mail with the details as suggested above.

Hopejack

Thanks for the replies. Actually I spoke to an advisor at HMRC about some businesses they had set up and she said not to send mail on to a forwarding address as it may not be correct, they could claim they never got it and the problem could land on your doorstep as you tried to forward. They advised returning it to sender as it flags up to the sender to put a search on the person apparently (?) - suppose it depends on how 'professional' the company is though on whether they do anything straight away or keep sending mail for a while!

olly300

Geenie wrote: »

Elvis Presley had the very same problem, and sang about it! ............."Return to sender, address unknown"

Do not open other peoples mail. I think you will find it is illegal.

For the 1001th time it is not illegal to open someone else's mail once it's been delivered to your door unless you are going to commit a criminal offence with it.

However the best advice is to put return to sender on it and continue to do so. Most mail will start disappearing within 6 months.

Geenie

olly300 wrote: »

For the 1001th time it is not illegal to open someone else's mail once it's been delivered to your door unless you are going to commit a criminal offence with it.

However the best advice is to put return to sender on it and continue to do so. Most mail will start disappearing within 6 months.

Are you sure?!! I would suggest you look here. http://www.thesite.org/homelawandmoney/askthesiteqandas/legalandrightsqandas/otherpeoplespost

Fire_Fox

You can register ex-tenants with the Mailing Preference Service.