Getting previous owners letters - 3 years on!

27col

If the previous owner is not bothered about receiving these letters, then there is no reason why you should be. Just bin them. Treat them the same as you would treat junk mail, they are not addressed to you and of no interest to you. In fact just like junk mail.

Moby_Tide

VSynth wrote: »

After 6 years we are still getting mail for the previous occupiers.

Mail is from their work and even the inland revenue.

Funny thing is they live next door to us! they moved out of this house to the one next door which is larger.

I've asked them to get it sorted but they still haven't bothered.

Likewise, 7 years on we still get mail and phone calls for the previous owner who lives a couple of doors away.

The phone calls have reduced admittedly after we started telling callers they had died after about 4 years of calls. Not sure if any are life insurers but one day they may finally sort out their own correspondance

Daisy_Maze

The Mailing Preference Service was exactly what was needed. Really easy to register. Thanks for the tip.

Have signed up to the Telephone Preference Service too...

morg_monster

We get this after 3 years... when the redirection stopped a few things still arrive every month. If they look obvious "junk" or mailing list stuff, I open it and email the company to ask them to take our address off. There's still one bank statement which I always return to sender but it still comes every year.
The worst is stuff comes for the previous occupants to them - and they moved in in 1999! It is share dividend info, and from a US address so no point sending back undeliverable. I just bin it now. Or shred if I'm feeling kind :-)

viviola

I open all post and if there is a reply paid envelope I put all the mail back into that, having first marked it up with "no longer at this address - please remove this address from your mailing list". They soon get fed up paying to get their own mail back.:j

potato_pizza

We had this problem at our house and no forwarding address - we kept getting letters from Natwest, despite returning the letters and also calling them repeatedly. In the end I wrote a complaint email to them and explained that we had informed them several times of the change in ownership and that it could easily be confirmed by checking the Land Registry. I also said that if they would not stop harrassing us I would be forced to consider legal action. I was sent an apology and compensation, plus the best bit of all - no more letters :j

janiebquick

I am a little concerned at the number of folk who open mail addressed to the previous owners as it is my understanding that this is a criminal offence. I think that this also applies to binning mail, although I don't expect anyone would worry too much about junk mail.

ColinFishwick

Not quite illegal ie reasonable excuse possible to notify sender that the person/s dont live here


It is against the law to open other people mail if it is addressed to them and you should notify the police in this regard:-

84. - (1) A person commits an offence if, without reasonable excuse, he-

(a) intentionally delays or opens a postal packet in the course of its transmission by post, or
(b) intentionally opens a mail-bag.
(2) Subsections (2) to (5) of section 83 apply to subsection (1) above as they apply to subsection (1) of that section.

(3) 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.

(4) Subsections (2) and (3) of section 83 (so far as they relate to the opening of postal packets) apply to subsection (3) above as they apply to subsection (1) of that section.

(5) A person who commits an offence under subsection (1) or (3) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

janiebquick wrote: »

I am a little concerned at the number of folk who open mail addressed to the previous owners as it is my understanding that this is a criminal offence. I think that this also applies to binning mail, although I don't expect anyone would worry too much about junk mail.

Ms_Chocaholic

I feel really sorry for the tenants who rent the property in which my MIL used to live, she was in huge debt and I'm sure they will have had the bailiffs round on more than one occasion.


ETA: Just wanted to add, my MIL died rather than moved so no redirection put in place.

keystone

Crikey. The real problem is these two sets of neighbours are just plain ignorant and lazy and have no reason to do anything about it whilst the receivers of this unwanted stuff dutifully pick it up off the mat and trot round with it later smiling sweetly but secretly grinding their teeth in anguish before having a moan here.

!!!!!! front up to these stupid people and tell them to sort out their mailing address because frankly you are fed up to the back teeth with it being treated like their slave. They have no incentive to sort it until you do.

Cheers