Still receiving post for previous house owners

chelseablue

chappers wrote: »

just bin it we still get post for the last residents and we have been living here for 25 years.
Every 3 years we get a new bank card for the lady and every year a paper summary of the ins and outs of her account, and yes I have been so nosey) which she clearly still uses.
I have contacted Lloyds on several occasions and still they come.
My point is there is little you can do and it will continue for some time, just bin it, it will diminish over time

Wow, that's bonkers after all those years! How do you get her new bank card to her?

Red-Squirrel_2

Comms69 wrote: »

Setting up redirection also takes 5 minutes.....

I paid for redirection but still got a few bits arriving that had clearly gone to my old address first.

45002

https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5156/~/ive-received-someone-elses-mail

https://idp.royalmailgroup.com/personal/help-and-support/track-your-item/what-happens-to-items-that-go-to-national-returns-centre

chappers wrote: »

Return to sender translates as "sorting office please bin"

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/royal-mail-national-returns-centre-1713249



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Phil&Michelle

It will take time for it to stop completely. We used to bin anything which clearly looked like junk mail and return to sender anything which looked more important.

NicNicP

We lived at our old house for 15 years and we’re still getting post for people that had lived there before. I used to return to sender with no longer at this address written on it. Didn’t do much good to be honest with some senders!

purpleparrotuk

I always wonder when you exchange and complete in such a short time, how do you redirect your mai in time l? It takes at least 5 working days according to the Royal Mail site so what happens with post that gets through the net before then. I was thinking af leaving a note and asking the buyers if there was anything that looked important in the first week if they would mind leaving it with the estate agent and I could pop in. Do you think that would be cheeky? Then anything after they could just forward or return to sender.

walwyn1978

purpleparrotuk wrote: »

I always wonder when you exchange and complete in such a short time, how do you redirect your mai in time l? It takes at least 5 working days according to the Royal Mail site so what happens with post that gets through the net before then. I was thinking af leaving a note and asking the buyers if there was anything that looked important in the first week if they would mind leaving it with the estate agent and I could pop in. Do you think that would be cheeky? Then anything after they could just forward or return to sender.

Seems reasonable enough to ask....

chappers

chelseablue wrote: »

Wow, that's bonkers after all those years! How do you get her new bank card to her?

I don't We just cut it up and bin it, though one time we even got a new PIN number. At one point we were getting quarterly statements too. But now it's just an annual summary
She was still using the account too, being paid via the University. Money was coming in every now and again and being immediately transferred to another account.
I did wonder if there was something suspicious going on but it's hardly likely they were both Oxford University Academics with a young family who moved abroad in 1992. I suspect she just keeps the account to take payments for work she does in this country and operates the account online.
I have rung Lloyds, been into the branch, written to them sent cards back. But it makes no difference. regular as clockwork, every year we get an annual summary and was every 2 years but now every 3 a new card.

kinger101

As other people have suggested, "NO LONGER RESIDENT, RETURN TO SENDER" sorts out 90% of it. For the stuff that still arrives, a phone call to the sender with liberal use of foul language seems to work.

TBagpuss

purpleparrotuk wrote: »

I always wonder when you exchange and complete in such a short time, how do you redirect your mai in time l? It takes at least 5 working days according to the Royal Mail site so what happens with post that gets through the net before then. I was thinking af leaving a note and asking the buyers if there was anything that looked important in the first week if they would mind leaving it with the estate agent and I could pop in. Do you think that would be cheeky? Then anything after they could just forward or return to sender.

Unless they live or work next door to the estate agent, I think it's a bit cheeky to expect them to deliver stuff to the gents for you.

If you don't want to leave your forwarding address (which is the simplest way to do it) I'd suggest that you leave several large, stamped envelopes, addressed to yourself c/o the agents, and ask them to put anything which comes in the first week or so in them, and post them That way, all they need to do is pop the envelope into a post box, rather than having to take it to the agents. (obviously check with the agents they are OK with you doing this first)

Or simply leave a roll of sticky labels, pre-written with "re-direct to" and your new address on and ask them to stick one of those on anything that comes and put it back in the post.

You're asking them to do you a favour, so make it as easy for them as you can.