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

maurice28

honeybean wrote: »

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.

I've worked in a couple of mail rooms and honestly, lots of people do stuff like that and it really will not have any affect on the people opening it (other than a quick sigh and roll of the eyes at another 'wacky' reply) so I suspect your efforts are a bit wasted.

The people who open these 'hilarious' returns are not the same people that arrange to send them out to you in the first place so it's unfairly making their job that tiny bit more difficult.

If you don't want the mail then just put Return to Sender/Not Known at this Address on it and send it back. Most times that will get you taken off the list. Much more efficiently than sending rival company's junk mail back to them anyway, despite your friend's experience.

JulieElizabeth

ScarletMarble wrote: »

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.

Google deceased preference service

JulieElizabeth

I used to work for the National Return Letter Centre

This is where all the undeliverable mail goes. If it has a return address on the back, it is automatically returned to the sender.

If not, it is opened, contents are either deemed important/worthy/valuable and are sent back to the sender or are binned

However, I agree with the opening mail personally and contacting companies directly approach

SuperHan

I get everything for the people who used to live at my address... Payslips, bank statements, doctors letters. It's like they never changed anything.

They go straight in to the recycling.

If they can't be bothered to change their address, I can't be bothered to deal with their post. It's the tiniest inconvenience... I just check the name on the post, and then open or bin it. It's certainly not worth me even going to the post box for!

Honey_Bear

After 12 years of dealing with post addressed to the previous owner of this house, I started opening her post and dealing with the individual companies. Binning everything wasn't an option right from the beginning - I took a bulging carrier bag of her stuff over to her temporary lodgings a week after she moved out, and a month later, another bulging carrier bag to her conveyancing solicitor. None of what I passed on was junk - it was all from banks, building societies, insurance companies and so on. After that, I religously returned everything marked 'Moved away,' or 'Not at this address any more' for a decade. I even made the baliff a cup of tea when he eventually arrived as I knew he would, and explained the situation. He was very nice about the whole thing.

The straw that broke the camel's back was my bank, my branch, even. I discovered after 12 years of this absolute nonsense that the previous owner had also banked with them (by opening her post well before the 2000 Act). Every single item that arrived was opened and dealt with by writing to each and every person. I posted them without stamps and told them I would continue to do so until they stopped sending me her post, regardless of whether it had a prepaid reply envelope or not.

With the bank, I esculated it as a formal complaint and that finally got them to accept they were wasting their time. I then changed banks myself because any organisation that is so incompetant was bound to end up making colossal errors. The tax payer had to bail them out in the end, and I think they're the bank with the biggest mis-selling figures.

There was also something very odd going on with a neighbour having a life policy under a pseudonym with all the correspondence arriving here. That went back marked 'Not at this address' for years, even after the neighbour told me I should hand it to them. Whatever was going on was nothing to do with me and I wanted nothing to do with it.

System

To those that say 'I bin it' well the companies will be sending the stuff.

JulieElizabeth

Honey_Bear wrote: »

After 12 years of dealing with post addressed to the previous owner of this house, I started opening her post and dealing with the individual companies. Binning everything wasn't an option right from the beginning - I took a bulging carrier bag of her stuff over to her temporary lodgings a week after she moved out, and a month later, another bulging carrier bag to her conveyancing solicitor. None of what I passed on was junk - it was all from banks, building societies, insurance companies and so on. After that, I religously returned everything marked 'Moved away,' or 'Not at this address any more' for a decade. I even made the baliff a cup of tea when he eventually arrived as I knew he would, and explained the situation. He was very nice about the whole thing.

The straw that broke the camel's back was my bank, my branch, even. I discovered after 12 years of this absolute nonsense that the previous owner had also banked with them (by opening her post well before the 2000 Act). Every single item that arrived was opened and dealt with by writing to each and every person. I posted them without stamps and told them I would continue to do so until they stopped sending me her post, regardless of whether it had a prepaid reply envelope or not.

With the bank, I esculated it as a formal complaint and that finally got them to accept they were wasting their time. I then changed banks myself because any organisation that is so incompetant was bound to end up making colossal errors. The tax payer had to bail them out in the end, and I think they're the bank with the biggest mis-selling figures.

There was also something very odd going on with a neighbour having a life policy under a pseudonym with all the correspondence arriving here. That went back marked 'Not at this address' for years, even after the neighbour told me I should hand it to them. Whatever was going on was nothing to do with me and I wanted nothing to do with it.

These postal items will more than likely be refused by the addressee due to a surcharge having been imposed on the item