Collecting mail from old address

iammumtoone

I can kind of see where the OP is coming from, £30 to pay is a lot for redirection if you have tried your best to inform everyone of your new address and only expect the odd letter if you have forgotten someone.

I would not knock and disturb the occupants of your old home. Instead I would pop a note through the door explaining you used to live there, have told most people of your new address but if they get the odd letter for yourselves would they mind putting it into the enclosed stamped address envelopes and popping in a post box next time they pass one. They are under no obligation to do this but I think most people try to help where they can.

This of course only applies if you are only expecting the very occasional letter, if you have not told anyone yet about your new address then you need to pay for re-direction.

scd3scd4

StaffieTerrier wrote: »

The old owners of my house asked me to do this. I didn't mind for the first week or so but they were getting 4-6 pieces of mail per day and I had to go out my way to a post box. The final straw was when I had two notes through the door about missed deliveries. At that point I wrote them a polite note telling them any further post would be returned to sender for 2-3 months and then the rest would go in the bin. They must have set up redirection within a few days as the amount of post reduced considerably.

OP, you need to set up redirection. It's not fair to ask people to keep your post. Why should they have your post hanging around in their house waiting for you collect it? It's not fair to money save if you're inconveniencing other people

I only went once a week or so, I have to pass a box when I leave my close. To be fair to them, they set up a redirection it was just for the ones that got over looked. Once the stamps and envelopes run out a few months later I stopped.

robatwork

remembe wrote: »

I didnt expect so many discouraging replies on this money saving site

That's because you're coming across as something of an entitled prig.

I suspect trolling in fact as it sounds very much like you know that you either pay the money or lose your mail - that's what your "rights" are. So the MSE way is to pay the money in fact.

remembe

its easy to call someone a troll - but I didnt post here for this attack

bowlhead99

remembe wrote: »

its easy to call someone a troll - but I didnt post here for this attack

If you are being charged at by an opposing army firing machine guns and wielding combat knives and hand grenades, you are clearly under attack.

Whereas in this case you posted on a forum that you don't want to pay the postal service to direct mail to a new address (a good solution which would solve your problem at source because if you had done it, the postal service would never deliver your mail to that address to which you don't have access). In response, people told you that you don't have any rights to ensure the new tenants to look after your mail or forward it on. They suggested you were being cheap by not paying the £30 redirection fee and that it would be less hassle for both you and the tenants for you just to do that.

That seems somewhat milder than an 'attack'.

An altenate solution is for you to tell every acquaintance, supplier, service provider, government agency and employer etc. that you have a new address, and hope they have adequate systems to implement the change accurately and immediately. Then you will limit the risk of identity theft because your personal documents are not being sent to a mailbox you can't control, and the tenants won't have to deal with any old mail coming except for speculative / junk mail.

kinger101

I'd return all mail as "no longer resident at this address", as it's more likely to stop all future mail addressed to that particular recipient.

You should have paid for the redirection. It doesn't matter if you moved next door or to the Outer Hebrides.

NeilCr

Spot on @Bowlhead99.

I must say it wouldn't cross my mind to ask someone to hang on to/forward my post. Indeed my best friend bought my flat and I made absolutely sure that redirection was in place.

He did send on the one or two things that came after the three month period though

ViolaLass

scd3scd4 wrote: »

The same sort of people would come at night or late while I am on nights..


No thanks, I will be the judge of my families safety. Hope that helps..

I'm not judging your family's safety. I'm judging your chauvinistic attitude towards your wife.

scd3scd4

ViolaLass wrote: »

I'm not judging your family's safety. I'm judging your chauvinistic attitude towards your wife.

No need for you to worry darling, it works for us. 30 year anniversary next year. Best you judge your own relationship..........if you have one! ;-]

toc25

We have lived at our house for 12 years and we still get post for the previous owner. We have no idea where they live now and they have never contacted us to ask for post.

I think if it was just happening for the first few weeks I wouldn't mind the previous owner/tenant knocking and asking for it but long term I would get annoyed about it.