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

franklee

When we were renting we found what we assumed was a Christmas card (unopened handwritten envelope, Christmas stamp) fallen down the back of a radiator. It was addressed to the owner before my landlord. So we stalked them on the internet, found their address and hand delivered the card some five years late. I wonder if they were puzzled how it got to them LOL.

Upsidedown_Bear

We still get mail for someone who lived here 30 years ago :cool:

Is that a record? Do I get a prize?

timefortea

I received what Im sure was a passport to a house I'd been living in for a year, then a week later their old passport. I hadn't received any mail for that name previously so wondered if it was a scam.

GaggingOrder

We bought a house from a mother and son pair, both over 60. The old lady went into a home. About a year later we had a call from the care home trying to get hold of the son, as the only other number they had was a mobile and it had been disconnected. This didn't surprise us given how many letters from O2 we'd marked Return To Sender, but seriously, how did he fail to give them the contact details when he moved.

To make matters worse, they actually told us they were trying to get hold of him because she'd passed away.

dc197

I get mail from a bank for a trust account for some little girl, possibly an orphan. 7 years and counting... The little girl may even be an adult by now.

Riggyman

We get our house's previous owner's Which magazine subscription. Remarkably the packaging on the magazine is always open when it comes through our letterbox. Good reading.

steph2901

We still get Christmas cards, bank stuff, work pension letters and general junk mail for the people who used to live in my house. I've lived there 11 years.

Valli

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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?

I still get a Christmas card (I assume, given it's addressed by hand and arrives in December) for the previous occupants.
We moved in in October 1998.

ciderboy2009

I get regular share dividend cheques (the ones I opened were between £50 & £200) from 5 different places for our previous owners (14 years and counting).
In the past I tried contacting the senders to block them but have given up now and just shove them back in the post box marked RTS.

diamond_dave

Tenants moved out almost 3 years ago and yesterday I received their car insurance policy and documents from the Post Office. Obviously, they auto renew their insurance, but should they knock someone down -guess what? - no insurance!