Do you send post on to previous Owner/tenant?

Mylo_The_Moggy

We moved in January, from a rented house to one we'd bought.
Set up a re-direction for 3 months, which gave us plenty of time to change addresses at work, doctors, utilities etc. All fine for us.

It was the house we'd bought that was the problem. Ex-vendor took months to inform various places about COA. Didn't even set up a re-direction either. Kept getting wage slips, stuff from tax office, DVLA documents and such like. Occasionally ex-vendor would ring & ask if we'd any mail & she'd come & collect. This went on for a good 4 months.

Finally I ended up putting everything we received back in post with RTS & no longer living at this address wrote on. I mean, 4 months is more than enough time to change living address.

Each time previous owner rang I told her there was no post as I was getting a little tired of her ringing me. It was as though she couldn't let go of the house for some reason.

Think they finally got the message as we've not had anything for about 2 months now. If anything else does come I will just RTS.

AndyPK

I've been giving it to a neighbour for a year as requested. The important stuff.

But now I'm trying to get the junk mail stopped and the stuff she is Likely to want returned to sender with her new address.

Takeaway_Addict

I forwarded it on for a few months, now I open it and read it and phone companies up if its important (ie debt collectors)

And before anyone says its illegal to open other peoples post...its not

custardy

just to advise
If an item doesnt have retail payment(eg a stamp,smartstamp etc) and no return address
theres no point returning it
RM will send it to confidential waste

lessonlearned

I can't believe how mean spirited some of the replies are.

I am definitely in the "seriously" camp - do unto others etc.

I would hate to think that I had not passed on something that may be important.

It only takes a few seconds to redirect. Are you all really that busy.

It costs nothing.

If you are not near to a post box you can just give the mail to your postie.

Having mail redirected by Royal Mail is not foolproof. There is always some that will slip through the net and go to your old address.

When it comes to instructing various institutions to change your address don't bank on them understanding a simple request.....

One of my insurance companies had to be reminded four times before they got it right. :eek:

It is not difficult to be generous of spirit and do the decent thing.

custardy

lessonlearned wrote: »

I can't believe how mean spirited some of the replies are.

I am definitely in the "seriously" camp - do unto others etc.

I would hate to think that I had not passed on something that may be important.

It only takes a few seconds to redirect. Are you all really that busy.

It costs nothing.

If you are not near to a post box you can just give the mail to your postie.

Having mail redirected by Royal Mail is not foolproof. There is always some that will slip through the net and go to your old address.

When it comes to instructing various institutions to change your address don't bank on them understanding a simple request.....

One of my insurance companies had to be reminded four times before they got it right. :eek:

It is not difficult to be generous of spirit and do the decent thing.

Can you? Delivery staff shouldnt be accepting live mail from customers

lessonlearned

custardy wrote: »

Can you? Delivery staff shouldnt be accepting live mail from customers

Mine does.

katebl

We've been in our current house for a year, I had a redirection in place for that long which I'm not renewing as hopefully no need. The last tenants left a forwarding address, after about 6 months they came to collect what I hadn't sent on and bought round a box of chocolates to say thanks. After 9 months I asked when they were informing DVLA etc as they had had trouble being pulled by the police, car being impounded, and kept asking me to look out for certain important letters. They told me they would do it ASAP. Last week I received their car insurance renewal documents - I sent back RTS. There's being scatty and lazy and then there's taking advantage - they've not been on the electoral roll in years which also makes me suspicious and I don't want to be associated with them.

custardy

lessonlearned wrote: »

Mine does.

Well they are risking their job.
more fool them for the sake of someone who isnt bothered about their own mail.

mandragora_2

olly300 wrote: »

Actually it can be lots of hassle.

Where l live now in either direction I go I have postboxes within walking distance. However the previous occupants changed their address before moving so I only got about 5 letters for them and that was in the month they had moved out.

In a place I lived before the postbox was some distance away and not near where I took public transport to work or for leisure.

This meant by the time I got to forward the ex-tenants (please note the plural) post or return it to sender I would have at least one full carrier bag of post. In some cases a carrier bag would take less than a week to fill up.

Luckily after 3 months the amount halved and over a year later there was hardly any.

Sorry that it's so much hassle for you - I can see your point. Ours is simpler. We live in quite a house at one end of a lane. We sometimes get misdirected mail or mail for unknown people. I either drop the misdirected stuff up the lane to our neighbours (when it's their post as it almost invariably is); scrawl a 'not known at this address' on the envelope and stick it in a post box on my way to work or drop it in the outgoing post pile at work, or stick it in our back door out of the letterbox with the same written on it - the postie always takes it away.

(We've lived here for 27 years - no recent previous occupants, really to worry about, just 'gone astray' stuff and the end of the lane neighbours who haven't got their address right yet despite moving in two years ago.....)