Landlords forwarding on post

Essenchill

bonvonnie wrote: »

I highly doubt your unhelpful ex-landlord will forward post onto you. as its will be an expense to him/her.

do you live far? maybe you could pop around?

we moved out of our house a few months ago, had the RM redirection, but some post gets missed, so we popped around if we had a bill or something missing. When it was Easter we took some easter eggs around for the kids, just to keep the new owners happy, as they were keeping hold of our post.

It's not an expense to forward on post. Am forwarding on the ex-owners post from here daily by scoring through the address and putting the new one on the front. I know it's not ideal and Royal Mail maybe doesn't approve of the method but the mail gets through, almost always as far as I know as my parents still do the odd thing for me in this way too. In the worst possible senario it might be returned to the original sender who will then see the new address on the front! Or you may end up paying a surcharge when you recieve it, which for your own post shouldn't be a big issue.

peter999

Essenchill wrote: »

Is there anything I can do??

Ask new tenants to forward post, give them a card with your address.

peter999

honeypop

Essenchill wrote: »

Well the people who used to live in the house I now live in have had their post re-directed apparantly. Three months on, every day, still receiving their post. But the advice is noted and taken, thanks

They may have only paid to have it re-directed for 1 or 3 months, as Royal Mail do 1, 3, 6 and 12 month redirection services. After the service paid for expires they will continue sending anything to the original address (probably assuming that everyone had been contacted with new address by then).

Essenchill

honeypop wrote: »

They may have only paid to have it re-directed for 1 or 3 months, as Royal Mail do 1, 3, 6 and 12 month redirection services. After the service paid for expires they will continue sending anything to the original address (probably assuming that everyone had been contacted with new address by then).

Still, they didn't get very good service even if they only paid for one month. Their post has always come here in quantity since I moved in!

Thanks peter999 good idea - don't think anyone has moved in yet though!

roses

Essenchill wrote: »

It's not an expense to forward on post.

It's not a financial expensve but it's definitely time consuming! I get 1-2 letters a day for the previous occupants 5 months after they moved out! It is getting tiring forwarding it on but as they look like official bank letters, HM revenue stamps etc I feel morally obliged to forward it on.

lush_walrus

As stated above, your landlord is not responsible for your post, other than a legal obligation not to bin it. The norm (and something I most definately do) is to write 'not known at this address' on the envelope and thats that. The post then returns to the sender who then has to contact you to find out where you have gone to.

Perhaps I am totally unhelpful too, but there is no way in hell I would ever go to the effort to get out the details of the previous tennant and write on every single damm envelope their new address. Sorry to say it is your responsibility to ensure everyone has your new address, not the landlord or indeed the new tennant. The best method to ensure that all post comes to you is through the Royal Mail service, and when it appears at your new property get in touch with the company and tell them your new address.

sooz

i tell tenants i'm happy to forward mail, as i when i find it...i'm not going out of my way just to check for mail.......but ONLY if they print off self addressed sticky labels. That way i don't have to hunt for their new address and a pen every time.

The last label gets written on to tell them it's the last one, and after that if they don't send me any more, it's marked return to sender or RTS

Bun

I was forwarding post for our previous occupant, after six months wrote on the envelopes for them to change their address, and when more bills etc that they obviously weren't opening came to me, started sending them back to recipients. I was a sahm at the time, and it was a pain having her post everywhere to take with me when I went out. All it does is tell people that they are still living there and they can obviously answer back as if they are.
Not to mention on the one letter my son opened it turned out to be bailiffs - I called and they said that if I knew the address they would use me as contact to reclaim their money. I told them I didn't as I was not getting involved.
So sorry, after a short time I would forward, then advise I was returning to sender.
Were you due any replacement cards, pin numbers or anything through the post that may have gone to the old place? This is another reason why I would never let anybody else hold my mail.

Essenchill

lush_walrus wrote: »

As stated above, your landlord is not responsible for your post, other than a legal obligation not to bin it. The norm (and something I most definately do) is to write 'not known at this address' on the envelope and thats that. The post then returns to the sender who then has to contact you to find out where you have gone to.

Perhaps I am totally unhelpful too, but there is no way in hell I would ever go to the effort to get out the details of the previous tennant and write on every single damm envelope their new address. Sorry to say it is your responsibility to ensure everyone has your new address, not the landlord or indeed the new tennant. The best method to ensure that all post comes to you is through the Royal Mail service, and when it appears at your new property get in touch with the company and tell them your new address.

I didn't feel I was asking a lot. As I stated in my initial post, I have changed my address with everyone I can think of, and am not feeling there is something missing. I just realise there is obviously a couple of weeks cross over period where mail was already in the post. Using the RM service would also take a few weeks to get into the flow (though to me it seems wholly unreliable as I've recieved so much for the people who used to live here who have used RM service) and so some post would end up going to the old address.

By now everything is changed over, I'm sure, but if a few pieces did slip through I think it would be fair to get those passed on, or returned to sender.

I realise it's time consuming believe me, having to still do the post for the people who lived here previously who obviously aren't in a hurry to change their details with everyone. But I would have hoped a landlord, given they cannot throw the post away, would forward the stuff that crossed over for the first few weeks and then stop, but I have had nothing forwarded on, I guess I expect too much.

lush_walrus

Essenchill wrote: »

I didn't feel I was asking a lot. As I stated in my initial post, I have changed my address with everyone I can think of, and am not feeling there is something missing. I just realise there is obviously a couple of weeks cross over period where mail was already in the post. Using the RM service would also take a few weeks to get into the flow (though to me it seems wholly unreliable as I've recieved so much for the people who used to live here who have used RM service) and so some post would end up going to the old address.

By now everything is changed over, I'm sure, but if a few pieces did slip through I think it would be fair to get those passed on, or returned to sender.

I realise it's time consuming believe me, having to still do the post for the people who lived here previously who obviously aren't in a hurry to change their details with everyone. But I would have hoped a landlord, given they cannot throw the post away, would forward the stuff that crossed over for the first few weeks and then stop, but I have had nothing forwarded on, I guess I expect too much.

It's not so much that you are asking too much, more that it is un-realistic to expect I guess. I'm not having a go at you, just trying to point out that people like me exist who will just return to sender! To be honest the main reason I do that is to stop anything dodgy going on in my properties. I don't want to open peoples private mail, but at the same time do not really want people registering credit cards or whatever else to my address, so return to sender solves that one as the company knows that that person does not belong at my address. And it is a real problem, a few years ago I found out through forwarding post back to sender that someone was claiming benefits at my address after they had moved out. It was only through a phone call from the council that I discovered that. If I had just sent the post on then it could have continued for years.

Thinking on, do you know that the property has been re-let? Could it be that it is sat empty with your post inside? Just a thought