Post for previous owner

mrsc_4

We have only been in our new house just over a week but we have had alot of post for the previous owner and I would expect this to a certain extent, but some of the letters look like final bills for the property.

We called the EA at the weekend and asked if they had a new address for the previous owner (she has moved in with her daughter and did so a while ago so not having post redirected) they called the previous owner and she is supposed to be sending us an envelope to send it all on to her.

I don't know how long to leave it before sending it all back to the sender (not going to open them as its illegal) as we don't want outstanding debts of the property. Any ideas??

Mrs_Optimist

If you have her solicitors details forward the post to them to forward on to her.

Gorgeous_George

Or mark it 'not known at this address' and stick it in the post box. I would forward mail to them for a week or so but I'd soon get bored with that. The previous tenants need to have their mail redirected by the Post Office.



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pollyanna24

Sorry to hijack the thread, but we are still getting post for the previous owners and we bought the house 8 months ago. What should I do with it all? Some of it I can't believe they haven't had their address changed. Magazine subscriptions and even their bank statements still seem to be coming here. At first, they used to come round and get it (lady told us she was waiting for a letter from her daughter's school, hmmmmm), but if they did that now, I'd tell them to bog off. It's all sitting in a bag in a cupboard now.

mrsc_4

pollyanna24 wrote:

Sorry to hijack the thread, but we are still getting post for the previous owners and we bought the house 8 months ago. What should I do with it all? Some of it I can't believe they haven't had their address changed. Magazine subscriptions and even their bank statements still seem to be coming here. At first, they used to come round and get it (lady told us she was waiting for a letter from her daughter's school, hmmmmm), but if they did that now, I'd tell them to bog off. It's all sitting in a bag in a cupboard now.

Pollanna at our old flat we lived there for 2.5 years and up until we moved out still got post for the previous owner we just to write "no longer at this address please remove from mailing list under the data proection act" and send it back. Before she moved out she lived their 20 years so we expected alot of junk mail.

funky-footprints

we were still getting occasional post from over 3 years ago ...some of it you could tell was important as it was a doctor that lived here before and he ran a business from home.

I did for a while forward it to him, then I was returning it to sender with moved out March 2003 written on envelope, then back last Easter time, a neighbour popped round to say that the previous owner had contacted them, as he was concerned he wasnt getting any mail redirected ? ? apparantly the neighbour was supposed to be collecting old owners post off the old postie ? the postie had changed and the post had stopped, it had started coming to me again ? ?
this sounded so dodgy to me ? ? it would explain why we got his post only now and again, as our old postie had quite a few holidays a year, so if temporary cover were on, they delivered it to us.


Im not sure what the legalities are here, but i told neighobur that i was not going to be responsbible for the previous owners mail anymore, espcecially if he is still running that business. Some of it was even arriving recorded or sign for.

I have now filled in something on line (sorry i havnt a clue where i found the link, but it was on here somewhere) to stop post for anything under his company name or members of his family coming to our home, if anything gets through i shred it .

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ctm_2

I scrawl 'Return to sender - not here' on everything and shove it in a post box.

I'm not opening it, because I know it is all about debts the previous owners have, and I'm not going to send it to them, because I can't be bothered.

Anything not for me goes onto the pile on the windowsill, and when i get round to it I scrawl the above on it and put it in the post box. It's not worth any more effort than that, and is better than shredding it, as chances are the people sending the letters may stop sending them when they get the stuff back.

Robert_Sterling

My daughter is getting mail for the previous owner but one who sold the house four years ago.

Meanwhile I am still getting mail for my daughter who moved away about nine years ago.

olly300

funky-footprints wrote:

I have now filled in something on line (sorry i havnt a clue where i found the link, but it was on here somewhere) to stop post for anything under his company name or members of his family coming to our home, if anything gets through i shred it .

You signed up with the mail preference service. http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

However this doesn't work for companies that the guy was a customer off or had any relationship with so my advice would be to return the mail to sender in the post box. Shredding it will not decrease the volume of mail. Plus for all you know the guy could still be using your address as his house address, if you do return to sender the organisation will get the post back within about 2 weeks and realise that something is wrong about the address.

With signed for stuff check the name and refuse the letters. I've done this both the postie and couriers. They get a bit peeved off but you are in your rights to refuse mail/letters that are not addressed to you or that you don't want. That way the organisation gets the message he doesn't live there.

If your return the mail you may get forms from banks or creditors asking whereI the person has moved to. You are in your rights to put you don't know or ignore it. If they ask for more information just refuse to give it. I did that in the above case because I had no links to the organisations concerned.

I've lived in a shared house where the previous owner use to send for brochures in made up company and peoples names. The people I was sharing with use to bin his mail because we were swamped with it. Only when I pointed out it was illegal and started doing return to sender did the amount of mail decrease dramatically. (Within 6 months the amount of misaddressed mail had decreased from 30 a week to about 2 a month.) It was then discovered that another person had not moved their bank account details, the bank had sent cheque books and was trying to send out a new card by courier before they realised due to my return and refusal of things that the person didn't live there anymore.

seabiscuit_2

we have been here 14 months now and last week got two envelopes which you could clearly see thru the window, the title "You mis-sold endowment claim"

I havent seen the old owners since march, so dumped them straight back in the post box

Tough on them if they cant be arsed to re-direct mail or bother to change important addresses like their endowment claim

ginger_nuts

I am living here nearly 10 years .Last week I received a letter for the previous owner .I no where they live so I can deliver it ,but after 10 years I guess its not really urgent