Still getting previous owner's mail - very annoying!

jc808

creditcard123 wrote: »

I understand completely how frustrating this is

We bought our house in Dec 08 the previous owner was in a nursing home and had been for over a year when we bought the property, his son and daughter in law dealt with the sale but not the redirection of mail.
We received all his mail, eventually after about a year and a sackful of letters I took them to our conveyancing solicitor who passed them on and asked for a redirection to be put in place. Everything I recieved after that I either returned to sender or binned it if it was junk mail. The previous owner died about 18 months after we purchased house so if I got any letters after that I put on it he is deceased and return them.
Nearly 3 years later we still get a christmas card and the occassional piece of mail.

Not sure when it will ever stop

A dead old man gets more christmas cards than you - my condolences :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Sugared-frog

My neighbours went on holiday about 4 years ago. I know which company they went with because they put down our address instead, and each month we are still receiving junk mail. I know they put down our address rather than just a typing error because they live in number 9 and we are 11, so it wasn't just misread! I popped it through their door for the first couple of years, and now I just bin it. They had a couple of years when they could have tried to sort it out.

Brb

This thread has reminded me to send daughter to post box with bag of ex resident's mail (I've been here nearly 2 years).

I'm forever having to have the same discussion about my address though. I live on a road that is spelt same as my surname. There is often a perplexed we think we have your name wrong look on delivery drivers' faces when I open the door and I then have to go through the same conversation. Yes that is my name, yes I do live here, yes I know isn't it funny *fake giggle*.

Yorkie1

I lived in a rental property for about 12 years. One of the previous occupiers hadn't paid a phone bill. I continued getting letters from different debt collection agencies for that debt throughout my time there.

I always wrote back and told them they were the 5th / 6th / 7th etc agency and that they weren't going to get any more joy than the previous ones! Don't know if they've given up yet ... suspect the debt is still being sold on to unwitting new agencies!

There were a lot of other bills and letters, and bailiffs once for Council Tax, but they were fine when I showed them I wasn't the person concerned.

ic

When I moved into my house, I paid for a full year of mail forwarding for myself from my previous address to give me chance to catch every company that writes to me and get my details updated. The previous owners of my new house however didn't do such a thing, and instead left a note welcoming to my house and asking me to forward all post that came for them. For a month I obliged, but the post just didn't stop. So I started stacking it up - after all why should I spend a few minutes everyday writing all over these letters then making a special trip out to the post box because somebody else who has nothing to do with me can't be bothered themselves?! After six months I had a huge pile of post. I sat down and went through it - most was advertising and got binned. A couple were from banks and gas/electric companies, who were each chasing final payments on accounts. I rang each and gave them the address of the old residents. Once I did this, the letters pretty much stopped. Even now, six years later stuff still does come - but it just goes straight into the paper bin.

Mrs.W_2

OP, we bought our house 22 years ago from a similarly fly-by-night character, and we're still receiving mail in his name. Unless it's a bill, everything goes in the bin now.

p00hsticks

Charliezoo wrote: »

I have 'returned to sender' most of his mail but it doesn't seem to have made any difference.

Possibly obvious, but you are writing something like 'no longer at this address' on the envelope as well as 'return to sender' when you re-post it, so that the sender knows why it's being returned ?

Sambucus_Nigra

We save all ours up in a box under the table in the front room and use it for the woodburner in the winter. Free fuel.

For the first 6 months we forwarded them on, then we just saved them and burnt them. After 5 years they have dwindled now, but the post office supplement our winter fuel with all the junk mail that now goes in the box with it.

eamon

Its a thankless task!

t0rt0ise

I get two lots of mail for other people, one for the woman with all the debts who used to live here and the other for downstairs who died over a year ago. The place is still empty as it's supposed to be being refurbished before letting again but dealing with her mail is difficult. I send a lot back but as people say some companies don't take notice. I called the gas company who said they couldn't take notice of what I said so the post from them still comes and I throw it away. I had a long email discussion with the TV licencing people who said they'd stop but haven't. Now I open the letters from them. They have threatened her with all sorts but so far seen none of it through. I can't wait to see what happens next. But all in all as others say it becomes a right pain in the !!!!.