My legal rights - mail to my address not mine!

vikingaero

Vuvuzela has answered the legalities.

What about CIFAS Protected Registration. It may hold you up a little if you apply for credit:

http://www.cifas.org.uk/pr

arcon5

Once a postie puts letters addressed to your address through your letterbox they become your property.

vuvuzela wrote: »

The legalities : Postal Services Act, Part V. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/part/V
"A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."

Therefore if I was getting bombarded with letters for someone else, I would have reasonable excuse to open them to find the sender and attempt to stop them sending to my address, where the addressee does not reside. I would also not be acting to the detriment of the other party to which the letters were addressed, so no offence would be committed.

Yes, but that doesn't mean the letter now belongs to the person at the address it was delivered to.

That simply permits you to open it in order to pass it on to the rightful owner. The owner still being the intended recipient.

arcon5

vikingaero wrote: »

Vuvuzela has answered the legalities.

What about CIFAS Protected Registration. It may hold you up a little if you apply for credit:

http://www.cifas.org.uk/pr

Thats to protect yourself against identity theft. Letters at your address clearly intended and in the name of somebody else is different and will have no affect on your individual creadit rating. It still doesn't make letters intended for somebody else legally yours.