Forwarding landlord post

jonmoneybags

next time something comes form a mortgage company I would be forwarding it back to sender, and if they dont know then........oooppppsssss, my bad.

custardy

aneary wrote: »

I thought redirection was free eg if you put redirect - then the address the royal mail will send it.

The amount you pay to the royal mail is for labels and extra sorting not actually for postage.

Something I expect will/should be eradicated.
Madness a private company is required to do the redirection at most likely a loss.

G_M wrote: »

I believe that writing "Please forward to [address]" is effectively re-posting the item and therefore requires normal payment.

In practice RM often deliver the item without additional stamps being added but they are within their rights, and sometimes do, deliver a card to the new address advising of under-payment and requiring collection from/payment at the local sorting office.

For private posting it is still (crazily) free.
To put it in perspective.
You have 3rd party companies paying RM reduced rates for downstream access mail.
The spec being those companies supply the mail to the mail centres and RM do the rest.
Then Joe Punter reposts the items in a post box.
RM gets to deliver the same letter through the whole network for that reduced rate.
Often requiring extra manual sorting due to the double address/old machine marks.

luvchocolate

I rented via a large local estate agent and in the tenancy agreement it said the landlords mail should be forward to the managing agent.

I lived there 8 years and received 2 letters which I forwarded, do not see this as a problem.

EachPenny

custardy wrote: »

Something I expect will/should be eradicated.
Madness a private company is required to do the redirection at most likely a loss.

It is just part and parcel of having a universal postal service and perhaps the 'price' of having a near-monopoly.

If you start taking bits of the service and questioning the cost, then you have to ask is it reasonable to expect a private company to charge the same for delivering a letter posted in London to a remote island as you charge for delivering the same letter a couple of streets away? By the same token, perhaps people who insist on handwriting addresses (or not using the postcode) should be surcharged?

Re-directing the occasional letter FOC doesn't seem an unreasonable service to expect a universal service to offer.

custardy

EachPenny wrote: »

It is just part and parcel of having a universal postal service and perhaps the 'price' of having a near-monopoly.

If you start taking bits of the service and questioning the cost, then you have to ask is it reasonable to expect a private company to charge the same for delivering a letter posted in London to a remote island as you charge for delivering the same letter a couple of streets away? By the same token, perhaps people who insist on handwriting addresses (or not using the postcode) should be surcharged?

Re-directing the occasional letter FOC doesn't seem an unreasonable service to expect a universal service to offer.

occasional? I think you would be surprised.
We are digressing but I wouldn't count on the universal service continuing for long in its current form.

[Deleted User]

Amateur landlord probably just a residential mortgage and doesn't have right to rent either.

Marvel1

I suspect landlord does not have permission to rent as why else not bother change address.

bertha337

Thanks - mixed bag of advise. I don't think the landlord is dodgy, and I do feel bad about not forwarding the post...but I also just forgot. I am a decent person so will perhaps meet half way if they take action. The clause actually says 'without delay' but no explicit limit of dates. I tried to get advise from landlords managing agent but they were a bit unhelpful...
Thanks, query sufficiently answered.

JPB123

Miss_Samantha wrote: »

This is a clause that is not intrinsically unfair and you knowingly breached it so I would say that you are liable for any loss that the landlord could not avoid.

Whether the tenant has to pay for stamps does not in itself make the clause unfair.

As for "time limits", I think it has to be implied in any such clause that the tenant must forward mail within a reasonable time. I would think within a week unless there is a good reason not to.

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bertha337

Btw - I say if they take action as they've only said they are looking into it...