Do you send post on to previous Owner/tenant?

custardy

mandragora wrote: »

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.....)

You dont really understand the volume of mail some people will be dealing with
especially in rental properties

Reue

Unless its obviously junk I always send it RTS. Cant believe some people would just bin other's mail! Plus it's pointless doing that as the company will just keep sending stuff!

So what if it takes 5 minutes or 30 minutes? Just gather it all up and post at the end of the month. Youve spent all that hassle and time moving houses... sorting out the mail is hardly a tonne of extra work compared to that.

mandragora_2

custardy wrote: »

You dont really understand the volume of mail some people will be dealing with
especially in rental properties

Sort of what I was saying. Still, don't bother to read what I've actually written. Just jump.

cwal

I happily forwarded mail after some tenants moved out and I moved back in but 18 months later I'd had enough and it got put in the bin, particularly when a mate of the tenants turned up on the door step one night 18 months after they moved out asking if I had recieved a P45 for them - I mean, please, it shouldn't take 18 months to change your address!

t0rt0ise

I did a house exchange and we agreed we'd send any post on rather than pay for redirection. I kept her post, mostly from debt collectors I later found out, and sent it on while she never sent anything of ours to us. There was one letter I know went there because I'd forgotten to notify my change of address but she didn't send it to me. So I stopped sending hers on and sent it RTS. Three years on I still get some for her but I suppose when you're running from debt collectors you don't tell them your new address.

StevenMarks

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 am doing unto others as I expect them to do unto me; I bin the post and would expect others to do the same.

It's a mile to the nearest post box from home and I have no desire to carry it that far when there is zero benefit to me.

Dan-Dan

I dont think many posties are going to like taking back mail as the person doesn live there , especially not on a regular basis , poor blokes bag is heavy enugh as it is!

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

The person we bought from did note their change of address with the post office, but a lot still slipped through.

We forwarded in bulk every month for the first 6 months, then once every few months for the next year or so. Then RTS for another year.

Still get the odd thing even today, mostly junk mail, almost 7 years later.

But now we bin it.

GwylimT

Our last house had been a rental property for a long time and so we used to receive mail for quite a few previous occupants, lots of junk mail, brochures, one guy even had a porno DVD delivered once a month.

We just used to chuck it all in the bin, the only ones we opened were ones that were clearly from bailiffs and we would then inform the suitable people that we now owned the house and give the details of the estate agents who used to over see the property when it was rented out.

I would expect the person in my old house to throw any of my post away if I hadn't bothered sorting out a re-direction and changing my address, there is no way I would expect them to keep it or go to the nearest post box four miles away.

silverwhistle

The delightful tenant in my house didn't leave when he should have done and then left very quickly, leaving a lot of his stuff behind. The housing association running it for me are getting the house back together - sort of - and then I'll move back in.
I doubt I'll have any forwarding address, and I doubt I'll feel very much, or any, goodwill to the tenant, but like newsgroup_monkey above I'll probably open some of the letters from bailiffs etc. as I really don't want any more hassle.