Opening a wrongly addressed letter

DCFC79

pineapple wrote: »

I think it very unlikely that anyone would be prosecuted for opening a letter in error. It must happen all the time. I rented previously and was getting lots of letters for a previous tenant. I mailed them all back religiously marking the enveloped 'not at this address'. But some kept coming and one day I genuinely did open one in error. It was from a debt collection agency. So I phoned them and explained. No more letters. It seems they weren't convinced when I simply returned them but speaking to them did the job.
Of course it goes without saying that you would never open someone else's mail on purpose

Opening post for someone else isn@t illegal, what I understand is illegal is when I for example would get a loan/credit card/finance etc using said letter (say a council tax letter or a utility bill ) in someone elses name.

Mojisola

pineapple wrote: »

I think it very unlikely that anyone would be prosecuted for opening a letter in error.

Not just unlikely but impossible because it's not against the law.

Silvertabby

Have you checked your credit reports recently?

neilmcl

50Twuncle wrote: »

Yes of course I have a password - he must have used cracking software to bypass this
Now I use Wireless Access Rules to limit ANY connections !
He just appeared on my connections log - the idiot was not even capable of using a made up device name - it appeared as "***'s phone"

But have you actually changed the router admin password it to something difficult rather than the default.

Gers

Many years ago I was told that Royal Mail deliver to the address rather than a person.

My Dad had posted me something, as he was very old and very ill his writing wasn't the best. Instead of being delivered to 26d it went to 260. Luckily at that time the postie was an ex-neighbour and he collected it for me from a student house.

In my current house / address my local postie raised his eyebrows at me when a magazine arrived addressed to a man. It was from my bank and had the subscription managers name on by accident!

50Twuncle

neilmcl wrote: »

But have you actually changed the router admin password it to something difficult rather than the default.

Yes I have - a 12 digit alpha numeric number

50Twuncle

Silvertabby wrote: »

Have you checked your credit reports recently?

Yes - Experian comes up clean !

50Twuncle

JReacher1 wrote: »

Fair enough but will it not be obvious when the police turn up that you have reported them? I would assume that will make relations between you both very unpleasant.

Stealing broadband is not really crime of the century. I have unlimited internet and have let my neighbours tether onto it when they have had their own internet problems. It does not cost me anything.

That's with your permission - what would YOU do - if you discovered that a family who lived the other side of you were (for example) stealing electricity off you - by Tee'ing off your feed cable ?
Would you just let it slip or would you report them ?
What's the difference - I pay for both !!
What about water - why not let them use your supply as well ?
unless you are on a meter - it won't cost you any more ....

forgotmyname

How do you know he stole your connection?

50Twuncle

forgotmyname wrote: »

How do you know he stole your connection?

Router logs and the fact that the phone was sitting there in my connected items list (with the idiots name on it !!)
This was prior to me setting up a MAC based wireless network access rule - I had assumed that the password would be good enough !!