forwarding mail ideas

red_devil

HiToAll wrote: »

haha, quality

why so rude?

mrsbee17

What we have done in the past is contact everyone to let them know our change of address and we asked our landlord to pass on any mail for us should it appear; we still receive mail for the previous tenants 2 years later and we just pop any mail not ours on the window sill in the communal area and it gets picked up by the LL as he owns all the flats.

wantonnoodle

Maybe worth starting with http://www.iammoving.com/

Its free and they cover a massive number of organisations who may hold your address details on file.

Granted, its not every single one (it doesn't cover financial organisations and banks), but it's a big help.

Maybe consider going paperless where you can, particularly on the important stuff, so that you don't have to worry about that going astray.

booksurr

red_devil wrote: »

why so rude?

perhaps because there are only 2 possible solutions to your question and both are rather obvious:

1. pay for RM redirection
or
2. "expect" someone else to do it for you for free. That someone else may, or may not, and given you ain't paying them you cannot expect them to deliver on any promises they may or may not make you. Legally, once delivered to the indicated address, any post can be opened, read, and then thrown away by anyone who has access to it.

red_devil

booksurr wrote: »

perhaps because there are only 2 possible solutions to your question and both are rather obvious:

1. pay for RM redirection
or
2. "expect" someone else to do it for you for free. That someone else may, or may not, and given you ain't paying them you cannot expect them to deliver on any promises they may or may not make you. Legally, once delivered to the indicated address, any post can be opened, read, and then thrown away by anyone who has access to it.

other people managed to give polite and helpful answers!! Its a reflection on you.

DaftyDuck

OK, in that case:

Might one politely suggest that you nail the letterbox shut when leaving the property...

jblessing

Print off a bunch of self-adhesive labels with "Please redirect to:" then your new address. Ask the new tenants to stick one onto any of your mail and put back in the postbox. At least that way you have made it as easy as possible for them.

lewishardwick

I'm more than happy to forward mail from previous tenants for a couple of months. Doesn't take more than a printed label and put back in the post.

After 6 months, everything gets 'return to sender'.

AdrianC

lewishardwick wrote: »

I'm more than happy to forward mail from previous tenants for a couple of months. Doesn't take more than a printed label and put back in the post.

After 6 months, everything gets 'return to sender'.

We had some post the other day for the woman who used to live here.

We bought the house three and a bit years ago. From her son... She died in 2008!

maninthestreet

Ask you friends / work colleagues to lend you the money to pay for your post to be re-directed??