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Postal Redirection - Tracked mail - security concerns

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  • AdrianC
    AdrianC Posts: 42,189 Forumite
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    It varies quite a lot. In some more rural areas it could just be a few thousand.
    It's more likely to be the other way - I'm in the boonies, and my sorting office is the county city, 20 miles away.
  • theonlywayisup
    theonlywayisup Posts: 16,032 Forumite
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    A pain, but can you not change the address on all of your important mail and leave a short term redirection from your old address to a relative or friend. If you are efficient at changing the addresses on the most important things then a redirection won't be necessary at all.
  • susieb
    susieb Posts: 1,512 Forumite
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    In the meantime dont accept any recorded delivery post
    Always on the hunt for a bargain
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,392 Forumite
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    It was the case that if someone sent a redirected letter with tracking, they could get the actual address it was delivered to (not just the postcode or delivery office). I think this has been tightened up now because of people in similar situations.

    I'd suggest getting a virtial office/mail forwarder in a big city completely different from where you are eg British Monomarks in London.

    You can also sign up to a VoIP provider such as sipgate.co.uk and get a 'landline' phone number (which can forward to voicemail/email) to give the impression you are somewhere you aren't.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • MysteryMe
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    I may be wrong but I think it will still show the sorting office on online tracking whether the mail is accepted / delivered or not.
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    susieb wrote: »
    In the meantime dont accept any recorded delivery post
    Or possibly - make sure you do, otherwise the returned envelope will have the redirection label on it? Depends whether the sender has put a (genuine) return address on it of course.
  • custardy
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    davidmcn wrote: »
    Or possibly - make sure you do, otherwise the returned envelope will have the redirection label on it? Depends whether the sender has put a (genuine) return address on it of course.

    Doesnt matter either way. An undelivered Signed for will still show the office that attempted to deliver the item.
  • custardy
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    It was the case that if someone sent a redirected letter with tracking, they could get the actual address it was delivered to (not just the postcode or delivery office). I think this has been tightened up now because of people in similar situations.

    I'd suggest getting a virtial office/mail forwarder in a big city completely different from where you are eg British Monomarks in London.

    You can also sign up to a VoIP provider such as sipgate.co.uk and get a 'landline' phone number (which can forward to voicemail/email) to give the impression you are somewhere you aren't.

    Get it from who?
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,392 Forumite
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    custardy wrote: »
    Get it from who?

    Get the redirected destination address from Royal Mail advice of delivery.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • custardy
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    Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »
    Get the redirected destination address from Royal Mail advice of delivery.

    Rms systems dont record addresses of delivery,so where is it coming from?
    If you mean the old paper EPODS that were scanned,then staff shouldnt have been making notes of addreses on them (Though I know some did)
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