Family member using my adress but doesn't live here!

rtho782

Don't see why OP is getting so upset, him having his mail sent there does not impact them negatively at all. I can see why he would be doing it as I wouldn't like my parents opening my mail either, or my sister in law for that matter.

There is no way for it to impact anyones credit file other than his own unless you have a financial connection (i.e. joint account) with each other.

nikig1

It's illegal to open other people's mail. Apart from that, he is having his mail sent to his brothers address as his parents open it and now his sister-in-law is doing the very same thing! Poor bloke, I'd get a P.O Box to stop these nosey people, LOL.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire!!

Marcusp

It's illegal to open other people's mail

Not this crap again!

Prove it

Chrissiew

Marcusp wrote: »

Not this crap again!

Prove it

Under the Postal Services Act 2000:

“A person commits an offence if he, without reasonable excuse, intentionally delays or opens a postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or intentionally opens a mail bag.”

“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.”

This, in essence, means that if you deliberately intercept, throw away or open somebody else’s post you are likely to be breaking the law.

chesky

Having mail addressed to someone else at your address can have an effect if you're on benefits. Someone I knew allowed both her brother and her ex-partner to do this. The brother was abroad and the ex was always on the move, so she let them both use her address for post - including bank statements. HMRC threatened to remove her WTC and took a great deal of convincing that neither man was staying with her.

Eonel

Chrissiew wrote: »

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.

Which is not the case here. OP is opening post that was correctly delivered , to no detriment and with reasonable excuse as the person doesn't live there.

Marcusp

Which is not the case here. OP is opening post that was correctly delivered , to no detriment and with reasonable excuse as the person doesn't live there.

Exactly.

As I said to Chrissiew prove it.

you can't.

You just quote regulations that do not apply to correctly delivered mail to an address.

Mail is delivered to a residential address, how is the postal service to know who stays at that address?

Chrissiew

Eonel wrote: »

Which is not the case here. OP is opening post that was correctly delivered , to no detriment and with reasonable excuse as the person doesn't live there.

The post was correctly delivered to the address but was not meant for the person who opened it

Chrissiew

Marcusp wrote: »

Exactly.

As I said to Chrissiew prove it.

you can't.

You just quote regulations that do not apply to correctly delivered mail to an address.

Mail is delivered to a residential address, how is the postal service to know who stays at that address?

As I said, the post was delivered correctly to the address but was opened by someone it was not intended for, one letter had a credit card in it, if it was a new card then a couple of days later the pin number would arrive, the person it was not addressed to could open the pin and hey presto, go on a spending spree with someone else's card and pin number.

Of course the postal service don't know who stays at any address, it's not their job to know that, it's their job to deliver mail, But what's that got to do with someone opening someone else's mail? So what you are saying is because people share the same address they are legally allowed to open each others mail with out permission?

pvt

Chrissiew wrote: »

So what you are saying is because people share the same address they are legally allowed to open each others mail with out permission?

Yes, you have now grasped that correctly.