Real Life MMD: Can I keep the magazines?

dr_aj

Send a letter recorded delivery. Give them 14days to stop sending. State after 14 days you will keep the magazine until the end of the calendar month at a charge of £20.00 storage. On the 1st of the month you will post back the magazine at a cost of £50 Administration. The fee's must be paid into your account by the 14th of the following month. Any fees unpaid after that date will incur a charge of £10.00 per day.

Hope that they ignore this and start running up the charges.
After a couple of months go to the CAB and start proceedings.

huangward

frugalstephen wrote: »

Keep it!!

You are actually doing the magazine a favour. All magazines survive on their advertising rates. The advertising rate is determined by how widely the magazine is circulated - a verified ABC rating.

By keeping the Econmist, you are helping to maintain and increase its current circulation of around 195,000 in the UK. That's why people in a 'trade' are very often given a FREE subscription to a trade magazine to keep the circulation figures up.

If you've done your best to cancel, keep it with a clear conscience - it actually does have the odd interesting article!

Reply:
I used to do similar with the numerous credit card applications containing my private details pre-printed several times on the application form. As they were unsolicited and it meant I had to shred them, I forwarded one credit card details booklet to another company so that they would benefit from knowing of the great offers available out there... it certainly was not meant to be mischievous:rotfl: . Luckily they seem to have stopped sending as many recently.

As regards post received for previous owners I can only claim to have had this for 8 years, since we moved in to the house but do receive mis-delivered post some times, which always goes back in the post box labelled as such. It rarely comes back to me.

A PC Pro subscription to my last address was never forwarded and the company were not interested in delivering to my new address so the new owner had a years worth of magazines for free. As regards PC Pro I am still waiting for a replacement CD-Rom, requested some fourteen years ago. Should I give up hope?

TBagpuss

If you haven't already done so, I would contact the estate agents or solicitors who acted for the previous owner and ask them to let him know that post is still arriving, and will he please let you have a forwarding address or set up re-direct with Royal Mail.
If he doesn't, then I would take the view that having returned the first 2 months worth and tried to contact him you have done everything you could reasonably be expected to do, and I would either keep or recycle them as you prefer.

When I moved into my current house (7 years ago) the sellers didn't leave a forwarding address and didn't get their post redirected. They also breached the contract I had with them so they owed me money :-( which I never did get back...

I kept geting all sorts - their bank statements included. I returned the first couple of letters I got from any single company marked 'not at this address' but eveything after that went, unopened, straight into the recycling.

However, If they hadn't been such unpleasant and dishonest people I would have made much more of an effort to get it to them and would have continued returning it to sender rather than throwing it out for much longer.

Myperents moved huouse last year. I visited them the last week they were there and saw they had received a letter addressed to the previous occupants of their old house. . . they'd lived in that house for 28 years

Fujiko

We hd this problem some years ago but as we had the previous owners' new address we forwarded the magazines, only to be told that they had informed the publishers of their move and were receiving their copies there. The magazines continued to arrive for over a year and when we contacted the publishers we were told that it was not worth amending their computer records and we could keep the magazines! So perhaps the previous occupant in this query has also notified his change of address.

tallgirld

I would read them and THEN return it to sender.

tenuissent

"the PO is obliged to deliver to an address, not to a particular recipient"

If only.........

Local PO suddenly started to deliver to one name only at our address for a bit. I was telephoned by a firm I work for who always paid me under my working name. Their cheque to me had been returned to them with "not known at this address" stamped on it, and they wanted to know if I had moved. That was my first hint that I wasn't receiving my post.

cherwell

bemuzed wrote: »

I had similar problem in a previous property. Even though I kept writing 'not known' on the envelopes etc, any magazines in clear plastic wrappings would come back. I eventually wrote 'You can re-deliver as many times as you like but they still down live here' and the Post Office finally got the message.
Just stick blank label over the address and chuck back in the post.

As someone else has stated, its not Royal Mail fault, Royal Mail delivers as addressed regardless of the name on the mail.
Any returned items are issued with stickers and were possible returned to sender. Please do not take it out on your postie.
I think its fair to say a big proprtion of people moving address cannot be bothered to get a redirection done or they trust the new owners to pass on mail to a forwarding address.
Recommended length of redirection period is 12 months, smaller time spans are available.

Swan_2

tenuissent wrote: »

"the PO is obliged to deliver to an address, not to a particular recipient"

If only.........

Local PO suddenly started to deliver to one name only at our address for a bit. I was telephoned by a firm I work for who always paid me under my working name. Their cheque to me had been returned to them with "not known at this address" stamped on it, and they wanted to know if I had moved. That was my first hint that I wasn't receiving my post.

that's shocking & absolutely not the way mail should be handled

I hope you made a complaint

tenuissent

I did complain. I went to the PO and politely but firmly gave them a list of names associated with our address, such as grown up offspring (six), frequent visitors and so on. I was surprised and disappointed not to get an apology, but did not know then that it should be the address, not the name, that takes precedence. I'm still cross, really!?!

megsykins

In my many years of renting I've received all kinds of things from previous tenants - strangest was a free sample of dog food??

Anyway, we currently have a similar dilemma: I live in a flatshare which for various reasons has had a complete turn-over of tenants in the past few months. The internet was set up years ago by a previous tenant, when she left she either didn't cancel it, or Virgin took no notice and didn't stop it - whichever way we have good (fast) internet but receive no bills. We also have a Virgin Media box which allows us to view a handul of channels, and all the catch-up / iPlayer stuff, but does come up with regular error messages about inserting a new card.

Apparently when the girl moved out the other tenants at the time did contact her to remind her that it was still connected, but no answer. They have all in turn since moved on and we now have no clue who set it up, nenver mind contact details. Should we tell Virgin and / or make a bit more of an effort to chase her? (at the moment we're just going "*shrug* free internet one day we'll have to start paying")