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Should we be worried??
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timberflake wrote: »
I have absolutely no obligation to forward this persons post onto them, especially when they vacated over a year ago!!
Correct, and you have no right to open mail not addressed to youANURADHA KOIRALA ??? go on throw it in google.0 -
It's not their address though, you rent so really you have no ownership over that address. The landlord may be hsppy for her son to use her address. Isn't really your decision.
It isn't HER address though /... it's that of her tenants.
Just write "not at this address" on everything that comes for him in future.
Why shouldn't he have the right address on things? Or have a redirect?0 -
The landlord still owns the place! I've been directing mail for my landlord for the last 2years. I would never dare open his mail.0
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Just stick it back in the post box marked "not known at this address". They wil stop eventually.
If it was for our landlord or her husband, I just dropped it through the letting agents letter box or wrote the adddress on and stuck it back in the post box.
I'll do you a swap, we've had the baillifs round looking for the previous owner of ours. Luckily we weren't in either time - they just put stuff through the letter box (one sealed, which went back in the post) but the other just a sheet of A4 paper (no envelope).
I have just asked the DVLA to remove all previous owners and all car registrations from my address.
As for the rest of the mail - it goes straight back in the letter box unopened - and it is gradually decreasing in volume.
You have no need to be concerned at all. Whatever he does with your address anway in terms of applications - he'll probably fail with as he shouldn't be on the electroral role there.:staradmin:starmod: beware of geeks bearing .gifs...:starmod::staradmin:starmod: Whoever said "nothing is impossible" obviously never tried to nail jelly to a tree :starmod:0 -
There's no such thing as "ownership of an address"! The mail has been correctly delivered so whatever happens to it after that is up to the occupant. There's no offence committed unless the person who opens the mail uses it in a way that causes detriment to the named individual. I doubt opening it and holding onto it counts as detriment. If it was important to the previous occupant that they receive all of their mail correctly they should have made arrangements for re-direction0
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It is an offence to open mail if it has been incorrectly delivered (Postal Services Act 2000), but it's still morally wrong to open mail delivered correctly but that is not addressed to you.
Send it back - NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS and if you can determine the company from the OUTSIDE of the envelope (try postcode and PO box in google), call them up and tell them that that person no longer lives at the address and to not send anymore mail.
It's a bit of a gray area as you do not own the house and the LL may be quite happy for his son to receive mail there. In every rental I have been in I have passed on mail for other's to the LL for him to sort out.Save £200 a month : [STRIKE]Oct[/STRIKE] Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr0 -
thegirlintheattic wrote: »It is an offence to open mail if it has been incorrectly delivered (Postal Services Act 2000), but it's still morally wrong to open mail delivered correctly but that is not addressed to you.
Send it back - NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS and if you can determine the company from the OUTSIDE of the envelope (try postcode and PO box in google), call them up and tell them that that person no longer lives at the address and to not send anymore mail.
It's a bit of a gray area as you do not own the house and the LL may be quite happy for his son to receive mail there. In every rental I have been in I have passed on mail for other's to the LL for him to sort out.
I think people are missing the point here a bit.
Its morally wrong for me to open mail adressed to him? Isn't it morally wrong for him to inconvenience us by putting our address down as his?
Lets not forget that he vacated more than a year ago, yet 12 months down the line I still find he's using our address when obtaining a mortgage quote for example.
Why should I re-direct his mail for him. If the LL was aware that he was doing this, why hasn't she asked me if there's been any post for him, he's put an application into the council and obtained a mortgage quote in the past few months alone, not exactely small things!
I just can't fathom how people believe that he has more rights over this address than I do; "You can't open the post", "You're only the tennant", "You don't own the house", he doesn't even live here, I do! Why should he have more rights than I!?
By some peoples logic on this board I should also gladly take parcels in for this guy because his mummy says its ok!0 -
If you think you've done nothing wrong then explain to the ll that you opened the post and would like her to advice her son not to use the address and you will throw away anymore post for him.0
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