Stll getting posts for old owners

Firsttimebuyer2018

When I was at Uni I was getting letters from debt collection agencies and eventually actual bailiffs turned up for a woman with name that could not possibly be me. It was really annoying, particularly when one of the bailiffs was really rude and threatened to take my car away even though I just proved that I was a different person!

My parents have had their house for 21 years and continue to get the odd letter or birthday card for the previous occupier

davidmcn

Caraway90 wrote: »

Sorry I know this is an older thread, but we received Poll Cards for the people that used to live in our house yesterday. When you say it's the responsibility of the occupant to list the residents, is this of case of going online and filling in some sort of form?

How long have you lived there? I've always lived in areas where the council posts a form to each household annually. You can add yourself separately when you move in.

InterestedParty2018

Mark as "Return to Sender - addressee no longer at this address/unknown" and pop back into the post.

Corporate companies will eventually stop sending post to you. They put a note on their files, which *should* stop post being sent.

Complete the electoral records as and when the local authority request the up-to-date info.

Sadly we still receive xmas cards each year (10 years on), but with no more than a first name, so no means of returning! Nothing you can do there really.

EmmyLou30

I bought a house that had been empty for months, plenty of time to change their address on everything....they didn't. I contacted them politely enough and got a snotty email back saying that of course they'd changed everything and all banking was online these days so that was fine and I could throw out anything that came as it would only be junk. Yep, he was that stupid.




So I got his bank statements, and the teenage sons, and the annual roundup of his stocks and shares portfolio, student loan company info, etc etc Clearly they missed a few vital things!
I ring up junk mail type companies to try and get it stopped as 'return to sender' has no effect in my experience. Got into a rather heated discussion with BT over junk for the owner before the ones I bought from. I had to explain in words of one syllable how a man who lived in my house over a decade ago is unlikely to move back in and take up their great offer and having rung them 5 times to get the junk mail to stop they'd sure as hell never get my business either! Not had any since.


Once I'd received the first debit card in the post the penny finally dropped with them that actually the bank did need to know their actual address - duh. The bank stuff all stopped then too.
Still get his portfolio of stocks and shares as they didn't listen when I rang them to say stop.


All you can do is try and reduce the quantity of it. It's just really annoying though isn't it that you have to :-(

betsie

We bought our house 5 yrs ago and still get post for the old owners. I send it back but still get the same letters every year from HMRC mainly,
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WibblyGirly

I used to send mine back to sender. Now it just goes in the bin.

wantonnoodle

We bought our place just over a year ago. We viewed it in October 2016 and it was empty then, as it had been a BTL and the owner wanted out.

We're still getting Barclaycard statements for one of the vendor's tenants who had a business registered at the address. They moved out in October 2015 (that's when the business address was updated at Companies House). We tried in January to get them stopped - OH spent an hour on the phone to Barclaycard CS in Bangalore - which was a waste of an hour he'll never get back. Their response was to tell us to take the post into a Barclays branch with ID and ask for a mailstop, but that there were some mailings that they were "legally obliged to send, whether the address was correct or not".

We took it into Barclays with ID and they said they'd logged it and sent it on to Barclaycard to resolve, but it didn't work, as we've had 2 statements since. This month, we've done the same, but this time we've also taken a printout of the entry from Companies House showing the change of address in 2015 and given this to them to see if they can use that to locate contact details for the customer and encourage them to change address. Fingers crossed its worked, as its getting stale now.

getmore4less

if regular return to sender does not work try "deceased"