Bought house but previous occupants still using address

Marvel1

rtho782 wrote: »

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.

Some of them stop.

davidmcn

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.

sniggings wrote: »

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

I have had letters returned, and parcels.

The default is that they are returned (certainly get plenty of them coming back to my office), but I think some of the bulk senders have an agreement with Royal Mail that their undelivered items are simply binned.

emsywoo123

emsywoo123 wrote: »

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:

rtho782 wrote: »

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.

*cough cough*

sniggings

davidmcn wrote: »

The default is that they are returned (certainly get plenty of them coming back to my office), but I think some of the bulk senders have an agreement with Royal Mail that their undelivered items are simply binned.

I doubt very much the law has a get out for bulk senders...either way the ones that you want to stop are going to be the loans, banks etc so yeah bin the rubbish if you want, such as the Dominos offers etc but the rest I would send back.

DKLS

davidmcn wrote: »

The default is that they are returned (certainly get plenty of them coming back to my office), but I think some of the bulk senders have an agreement with Royal Mail that their undelivered items are simply binned.

For a year I dutifully returned to sender but after the postie told me what happened (whether true or not), I just started burning them along with the rest of the junk.

Its a two minute walk to the postbox and 10 seconds to the chimnea.

wwl

rtho782 wrote: »

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.

You do need to keep an eye on what's comingin and open anything that looks offical, otherwise you could get unexpected calls from bailiffs or Old Bill. Or find your car clamped on your driveway. Just ignoring everything is a really bad idea.

DKLS

wwl wrote: »

You do need to keep an eye on what's comingin and open anything that looks offical, otherwise you could get unexpected calls from bailiffs or Old Bill. Or find your car clamped on your driveway. Just ignoring everything is a really bad idea.

Bad idea?, the worst that happened was a couple of bailiffs knocked on the door, asking for previous owner, I said he moved, showed them my ID and off they went never to be seen again.

Wow a whole 2 minutes of my time taken, hardly a bad idea they were so pleasant I told them that despite not leaving a forwarding address it only takes a few seconds on Facebook to find him.

*~Zephyr~*

Five years! For five years I've been getting post for the previous owner.

I've had HMRC tax code notices, cheques for tax refunds from HMRC (I enjoyed shredding that one), dividend cheques, bank statements, credit card statements, DVLA letters, you name it.

For three years I used to write not known etc, RTN on the envelope and put it back in the post, but they still kept coming. When we got a new thread of letters from a French finance company showing that they had bought a £49k boat I saw red. I still sent the letters back but I started writing DECEASED on the envelopes.

We don't get much post for them now.