Bought house but previous occupants still using address

sniggings

cjdavies wrote: »

Excatly, common sense out of the window.

I would of thought Royal Mail would do that? I would assume by opening the letter, don't like this letter it's debt and sending it back not known.

I would guess they do, but my guess it's a slow process.

I would do it myself and speed up the process.

sniggings

Alter_ego wrote: »

Then I would keep shredding or recycling. I get plenty of spam mail so a bit more is no problem.
People who get stressed about it can waste their time readdressing & posting.

Smart move, someone using your address, any number of reasons why you would want to stop that, and your solutions is shed the letters, so they keep turning up!

dancingfairy

I'm not sure the police will be interested. There may be some sort of fraud but it will be against the company and not you so I can't see the police taking this on.
I sympathise it must be a pain in the neck but there isn't a lot you can do.
Things I can think of that might help a bit are speaking to the council to see if there is any way to get previous occupants removed from electoral role and joining mail preference service which should help cut down on random junk ( but not if they have previously dealt with the company concerned).
Df

emsywoo123

booksurr wrote: »

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

Not *entirely* true

I came home yesterday to a letter from Concentrix (on behalf of HMRC), the basic message was that they had reason to believe my single person tax credit claim was fraudulent and they thought there was another adult living with me.

I called them, and asked who this supposed person was, and it was the previous tenant! She left over 18 months ago, and the post I have received in her name has been marked and sent back.

I now have to send a bucket load of stuff off to Concentrix to prove I am not living a lesbian high life with ill-gotten gains of tax credits with a woman I have never actually met!! :rotfl:

DKLS

Any Postal workers on here confirm that if you mark a letter return to sender it actually goes back?,
My local postie said they are all piled up in the warehouse and binned every so often.

Pixie5740

All the post that is returned-to-sender to sent to Royal Mail's National Returns Centre which is in Belfast. (So all those DVLA letters I received for the previous occupant are getting a nice wee jaunt around the UK from Swansea, to Aberdeen, to Belfast and back to Swansea.) If there a return address then Royal Mail will send the post to that address but sometimes there isn't a return address so if Royal Mail can't figure out who the sender is then it eventually gets shredded.

sniggings

DKLS wrote: »

Any Postal workers on here confirm that if you mark a letter return to sender it actually goes back?,
My local postie said they are all piled up in the warehouse and binned every so often.

By law they have to go back, your post is talking rubbish.

I have had letters returned, and parcels.

marksoton

midnight_child wrote: »

Wasn't given a forwarding address so I simply forwarded it all C/O the agents office, for them to then pass on directly. They soon got the message.

MC

From what i can see this is by far the most hassle free and effective way.

Just don't expect a favourable rate offer from that EA when you come to sell!

vic_sf49

I got sick of returning the previous owner's post, so I just stuck a note above my letterbox, "....insert name....doesn't live here".

Postie just returns it to wherever they send "not at this address" letters. Very good service from my postman!

rtho782

Letters in someone else's name don't hurt you, you can't stop them, returning to sender is a waste of time (they keep coming) just shred them.