Bought house but previous occupants still using address

NicNicP

We still received mail at our old address for previous occupants even after being there for 15 years!

agrinnall

It's what the recycling bin is for.

Squid101

No forwarding address unfortunately. From the snippets of info I gather from locals. He ended up living with his Mum she has a high profile job with a LG and the rest is unknown. I can trace her her names a contact on Web! . He actually called me out of the blue to ask if anything had arrived from DVLA when I told him it's been returned he actually seemed put out! Over a year after we bought house!

I just get the impression that they are all very "fluid" atm.

To be honest I am cross. I shall take time to think about how to deal with this more formally. I am not one for letting this go if you know what I mean.

Mojisola

Squid101 wrote: »

No forwarding address unfortunately. From the snippets of info I gather from locals. He ended up living with his Mum she has a high profile job with a LG and the rest is unknown. I can trace her her names a contact on Web! . He actually called me out of the blue to ask if anything had arrived from DVLA when I told him it's been returned he actually seemed put out! Over a year after we bought house!

I just get the impression that they are all very "fluid" atm.

To be honest I am cross. I shall take time to think about how to deal with this more formally. I am not one for letting this go if you know what I mean.

Give her address as his contact address.

His mail will stop coming to you and he and his Mum can sort what happens to the stuff that arrives at her address.

[Deleted User]

The problem is there's not a lot you can do about it, the companies who sent the mail don't act (been there), all you can do is file it in the round filing cabinet and not stress out about it.

StumpyPumpy

Squid101 wrote: »

No forwarding address unfortunately. From the snippets of info I gather from locals. He ended up living with his Mum she has a high profile job with a LG and the rest is unknown. I can trace her her names a contact on Web! . He actually called me out of the blue to ask if anything had arrived from DVLA when I told him it's been returned he actually seemed put out! Over a year after we bought house!

I just get the impression that they are all very "fluid" atm.

To be honest I am cross. I shall take time to think about how to deal with this more formally. I am not one for letting this go if you know what I mean.

That would probably have been a very good time to ask for a forwarding address.

Squid101

Maybe but I was driving (hands free) and almost blown away by the nerve to be honest. Actually good point. Might see if I can find the number and text for said address. Yeah good point

Squid101

You have all been really helpful..thank you.

My final plan then is to give the woman's work address (as I know that because it's on the Web page) as the forwarding address for all mail. They can deal with it themselves then. Bet it soon stops!

I won't text him. He may think I was offering to act as an in between which I am not.

booksurr

it may be annoying, but the implications of it to you personally are ZERO

- mail has been correctly delivered to the address
- you therefore have every right to do with it what you want: send back, recycle, open and read etc etc
- debts are against the person not the property. Bailiffs or other forms of lower life debt collectors cannot do anything against you once you tell them who you are (eg if they knock on the door) and they must go away or they are committing an offence

In my case I resolved it after 9 months by opening the mobile phone bill and calling the most frequently dialled number. As I suspected it was her BF and after I explained I was legally entitled to do what I had done, and pointed out that the reason she had no money was her benefits claim was coming to me (and being binned), the post was very quickly changed for all her mail.

gingercordial

Squid101 wrote: »

To be honest I am cross. I shall take time to think about how to deal with this more formally. I am not one for letting this go if you know what I mean.

There is no "more formal" way to deal with this. You are going to have to let it go, because getting cross about it is going to do you no good.

Keep returning post to the sender, marked as "gone away". This is going to cause the previous owner some problems eventually which will force them to deal with it. For example, last time I moved I asked the Halifax to change my address (you have to go to a branch and ask the cashier to do it); they incorrectly entered my flat number as 2 rather than 20. Statements started going to flat 2 and the resident sent them back addressee unknown. I only found out about this when Halifax blocked my credit card because they had been alerted by this that they did not hold a valid address for me. So, presumably, similar things will start to happen to your ex-owner if you are diligent about returning mail and he will then have no choice but to update his details.

I sympathise because the previous tenants of our flat still have everything sent here after 8 months, including pay slips, bank statements, credit cards, car insurance, DVLA, voting cards, even Amazon parcels still came here for the first few months. All gets returned to sender. The flow is just about starting to dry up as their correspondents start to get the idea. But there is nothing else you can do.