Still getting letters for previous owners

LutonGirl

When my Dad died we dealt with all his official post, but for the junk mail, I printed out a few sheets of labels, 14 to a sheet with "Deceased - please remove from mailing list" and used to slap those on and drop them in the post.

Unfortunately, he was one for giving to every weirdo charity that crossed his path and the post just kept coming and coming after he died.

I left a couple of sheets with the new people in his house, and to my knowledge, there's no more junk.

Yorkie1

Windsorcastle wrote: »

I would definitely do that as I would be very suspicious that this person is using your address to run up bad debt. However, one tiny word of caution - I lived in a place several years ago where I kept getting HMRC letters for a previous occupant. Kept sending them back 'not known' but they kept arriving. The only reason I ended up opening one was because I thought the poor person was probably missing out on all sorts of tax demands and would be getting in trouble. So I opened one letter and rang HMRC to explain, quoting this person's NI number. The jobsworth on the line was really snotty, telling me it was an offence to open someone else's letter or to be in possession of someone else's NI number. It was a bloomin' cheek really, as I told her!

So - no you're not entitled to open them, but I would do anyway, because you have to protect your own interests and make sure fraud isn't being committed at your address.

Sorry but you are incorrect. This old chestnut comes up time and time again. You are entitled to open post which has been lawfully delivered to the address as long as you are not maliciously doing so with the intention of acting to the detriment of the addressee.

chris_m

Yorkie1 wrote: »

Sorry but you are incorrect. This old chestnut comes up time and time again. You are entitled to open post which has been lawfully delivered to the address as long as you are not maliciously doing so with the intention of acting to the detriment of the addressee.

Couldn't shopping them to HMRC, debt-chasers etc. be seen as acting to their detriment - sorry, debtriment ?

thesaint

Locky wrote: »

If people just bin the letters, won't they keep on coming?

99 out of 100 yes.
Also, people saying that addresses do not get "black" marks, people do are incorrect.
Companies(on a company basis) can, and do rule out dealing with certain addresses.

Contacting a company costs little or nothing, and can save everyone a lot of time and hassle in the future.

[Deleted User]

I got a letter the other day, addressed to the Executors of a former tenant.

Why they would think the executors would be living at the deceased former address, more than 4 years after he died, is beyond me :huh:

ValHaller

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

I got a letter the other day, addressed to the Executors of a former tenant.

Why they would think the executors would be living at the deceased former address, more than 4 years after he died, is beyond me :huh:

They probably wrote more in hope than in anticipation.