What's the record for mail addressed to previous residents?

googler

The previous owners of our house were less than diligent in advising folks they had moved.

We've had lots of mail for them, and a visit from a couple of court officers looking for them, too, along with hospital appointment confirmations, even their invitation to "Come back to Television X" some five or six years after they'd left, but ...

They left in Feb 2001, and we've just received promotional mail from an insurance company, addressed to a previous resident by name.

I make that 15 years 3 months.

Can anyone beat this?

DRP

No, but even our (nearly) 3 years of mail regarding car insurance and tax, credit cards, savings accounts is getting quite annoying. They all go back in the post with return to sender, but it doesn't seem to make any difference.

At our previous address we had 9 years of Dolphin Sanctuary Charity (or similar), and University of York Alumni magazines for the previous owner. Does make me wonder what the new residents of my old place have been receiving for me all these years...

LittleMax

At our last property which we sold at the end of last year we were still getting occasional mailings from a caravan suppliers addressed to the people who moved out in the 90's. When we first moved in (2002) we would return post to sender, marked 'gone away' (we didn't have a forwarding address as they had owned it before the people we bought off - and had rented it out before selling). I doubt the caravan company ever cleanse their list - no wonder caravans are so expensive!

LittleMax

Not had anything at this address - another advantage of a new build

Cakeguts

Some years after we moved into our house the coroner's office rang about the former owner's death.....

keith969

I got letters for the previous-but-one owner of my house for a couple of years, with increasingly urgent ones from a credit card company and their bailiffs. One day a letter was hand delivered from the bailiffs while I was out. Turned out he owed over £9k to Barclaycard. A phone call stopped the letters, never knew if they caught up with him, makes you wonder how he got away without telling his credit card company about moving out 5 years previously.

Mossfarr

My daughter still receives letters for the former owner after 8 years. They are all debt collection letters so I phone each time a new company sends them. They stop for a while then the debt gets sold on so it starts all over again. We just bin them now.
Some of the more recent demands suggested he was still applying for loans at her address.
She did also receive some pension documents relating to a previous occupant we'd never even heard of, they were still valid too. God know how far back that went. I spoke to the senders and returned the documents to them.

Marvel1

I just send them back unopened not known at this address, didn't care what was inside. Not had one for about 3 years, been here coming to 8 years.

Rain_Shadow

We still get the occasional promotional stuff for the previous owner. We've lived her 10 years.

Norman_Castle

Nationwide current account statements for at least 22 years. The Nationwide have been told twice but it wouldn't surprise me if another one turned up.

Mossfarr

To stop the promotional stuff just go on their website and unsubscribe.