Friend using my address chased by debt company.

RosaBernicia

Also, a quick Google search suggest is IS an offence to open someone else's mail without reasonable excuse - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/84 . So hopefully all the rest will stay sealed and go straight back in the postbox.

tempus_fugit

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Also, a quick Google search suggest is IS an offence to open someone else's mail without reasonable excuse - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/84 . So hopefully all the rest will stay sealed and go straight back in the postbox.

That appears to only relate to the "opening of postal packets in the course of transmission by post" (which this wasn't as it had already been delivered) or "intentionally opening a mailbag". They would also need to have been "intending to act to a person's detriment", which I doubt would apply here. As in this case the letters had been delivered to the correct address, albeit not addressed to the householder's name, I doubt the OP was breaking any laws by opening them.

Mojisola

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Also, a quick Google search suggest is IS an offence to open someone else's mail without reasonable excuse - https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/84 . So hopefully all the rest will stay sealed and go straight back in the postbox.

No, it's not.

"A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."

bargainbetty

Just a thought, but do you have her new address? At this point, I'd be very tempted to contact all the senders and advise them of her new contact details and home address.

You have asked her to deal with it all, so let her deal with them.