Still getting letters for previous owners

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I'm amazed at how much work you lot do, basically just to help out companies who have not been notified of someone moving. I don't waste my time with them and just stick the letters straight into the bin. Occasionally if I have my own letters to post I might cross the address out in red and pop them back in the post box, but that's the absolute limit.

Why do someone else's work for them when it has nothing to do with you? Let them waste their time and money.

moneyistooshorttomention

Thinks the point has just been missed...basically that we don't want any repercussions on us because of the misdemeanours of a previous owner of the house (eg if we go to get some credit and find we cant because our address comes up with a black mark by it that is nothing to do with us).

Though, in my personal case, I was also hoping to have a little thief caught out and hopefully deterred from her thieving little ways...

anselld

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Thinks the point has just been missed...basically that we don't want any repercussions on us because of the misdemeanours of a previous owner of the house (eg if we go to get some credit and find we cant because our address comes up with a black mark by it that is nothing to do with us).

That cannot happen; addresses do not have black marks or credit records.

Southend1

AIUI addresses don't get blacklisted so unless you are financially linked with these people in some way it won't affect your ability to access credit.

Just bin the letters, it's free and will save a whole lot of time and stress trying to stop them!

GwylimT

When we moved with had our post diverted and we changed all address on various things e.g. bank accounts asap, our bank has still failed to update their system and so our bank statements go to our old house, they recently sent my new card and pin to my old house as well!

evoke

Southend1 wrote: »

AIUI addresses don't get blacklisted so unless you are financially linked with these people in some way it won't affect your ability to access credit.

Just bin the letters, it's free and will save a whole lot of time and stress trying to stop them!

I'm just worried that i'll have people turning up at my door looking for the previous owners! It's just the potential stress that might create that concerns me.

Also, i'm wondering why these companies don't deal with returned mail properly. I've started the recognise the return addresses on many of the letters and they are from a handful of companies. They must have each had at least 20 letters returned to them by now!

On average I get around 2-3 letters per week for the previous owners. That would make around 250 to 300 since I moved in!

quidsy

So just opene the letters & call. It will stop the letters, stop any possible future door knocker. It will take 30 mins of your life & clear all the stress up.

martindow

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

....well....I guess a bit of light relief is due on that one by now....

Being what happens if PO has now "shuffled off this mortal coil" and letters are still coming through for them?

Ummm...as someone who is currently buying a probate house. Thankfully, I have the vendors address and they are a relative of the previous owner and I will just forward anything onto them....but am now wondering what happens when that isn't known....:A

Letters forwarded on to "Mr/Mrs X, c/o St Peter, The Pearly Gates, Cloud 9":rotfl:

In a situation like this I wrote 'deceased please return to sender' on each letter and popped them in a post box. The post stopped very quickly as it can create bad publicity for companies sending lots of letters to dead people.

Many of these letters were from charities and I think it is very different to letters from debt collectors who are not inclined to believe that a person has moved (or died), no matter how many times they are told.

Southend1

evoke wrote: »

I'm just worried that i'll have people turning up at my door looking for the previous owners! It's just the potential stress that might create that concerns me.

Also, i'm wondering why these companies don't deal with returned mail properly. I've started the recognise the return addresses on many of the letters and they are from a handful of companies. They must have each had at least 20 letters returned to them by now!

On average I get around 2-3 letters per week for the previous owners. That would make around 250 to 300 since I moved in!

I used to get the same. Debt collector letters, court summons, DVLA fines, reminders etc etc. The first 3 months I sent them back return to sender but they didn't stop. So I just started binning them. The number then dwindled over time. I still get the odd one but not many.

I think I only ever had one caller who may have been a debt collector. He asked for the previous occupier by name, I said they didn't live here and I don't know them. He said ok thanks, off he went and never came back.

Life's too short to do someone else's personal admin for them so I would just bin them.

Prothet_of_Doom

Once a week, mark them all with "Return to Sender, moved 11/9/2011, no forwarding address known, please ammend records" - Just keep doing it. Eventually in about 12 years it will stop.

Or invest in a woodburning stove.