A company still sends out mail to someone who does not live here

Legacy_user

Everytime I get a letter from this umbrella group of companies, I cross out the name and address with 'RETURN TO SENDER' Then 'NO-ONE OF THIS NAME LIVES HERE' and 'PLEASE REMOVE DETAILS OFF DATABASE' - I still get the letters about 2 every 10 days.

How to make sure this umbrella group does not send out anymore stuff with this persons name?

spacey2012

Put it back in the postbox.

Prothet_of_Doom

Bbq ? ????

Fluff15

I personally would open them and ring the companies they are from, and ask to be removed. It isn't illegal for you to do this although many people think it is, from the CAB website:

Opening someone else’s mail is allowed in certain circumstances under the Postal Services Act 2000. It is only an offence if you open someone else’s mail ‘without reasonable excuse’ or if you ‘intend to act to another’s detriment'. For example, if you are receiving bank statements/cards in someone else’s name then you should act on that immediately. You should tell the sender, either by returning it marked “not known at this address” or by opening the mail and calling any number provided within. The “reasonable excuse” for opening such items would then be that you were helping to prevent fraud against the companies involved.

I lived in a student let and whoever had been there before had run up a lot of debt. I kept returning the letters to no avail, and it only stopped when I got fed up and opened up the letters and rang them. They were very understanding and the issue stopped immediately!

Sheel

Why is it such a big deal?

We've lived here 17 years and we still get post occasionally for the previous owner who is probably deceased by now. We just bung it back in the postbox. It's no biggy.

Lovelyjoolz

We've lived in this house for two and a half years now and still get post for the previous owners. Not just junk mail either - we get statements from the Student Loan Company and a few months ago from a French boat financing company.

I'm sick to death of writing RTS on them and reposting them. I want to start writing DECEASEDacross the envelope, but OH doesn't think it's a good idea :rotfl:

peachyprice

Just bin them. It's not worth getting worked up over.

pimento

Lovelyjoolz wrote: »

We've lived in this house for two and a half years now and still get post for the previous owners. Not just junk mail either - we get statements from the Student Loan Company and a few months ago from a French boat financing company.

I'm sick to death of writing RTS on them and reposting them. I want to start writing DECEASEDacross the envelope, but OH doesn't think it's a good idea :rotfl:

Freak the previous owner out by sending the stuff on to them..

System

Lovelyjoolz wrote: »

I'm sick to death of writing RTS on them and reposting them. I want to start writing DECEASEDacross the envelope, but OH doesn't think it's a good idea :rotfl:

It wont make any difference -the previous tenant did die and for months I wrote deceased on the mail and sent it back. 12 months on and its still coming I shred the address and recycle the rest.

System

All I want to know is why don't companies and organisations don't act on RTS, deceased etc.

One of my colleagues lost her dad earlier this year. Since his death, more companies, organisations - esp charities have posted things under his name. My colleague's DH had wrote a standard letter asking the companies etc to kindly remove the deceased's name from the list as upsetting my colleague. Nine times of ten, the post contains a prepaid envelope and uses that to post the letter.

honeybean

If they have a return envelope I just send it back in that shredded, I know it is a ball ache but fun to imagine what their faces look like when they open it . A friend of mine used to swap over the leaflets ie tesco in a sainsbury envelope and send it back in their prepaid envelope you will be surprised how quick they stop coming. Takes some time but a lot of fun.