Debt Letters to Unknown Person

Mojisola

sourcrates wrote: »

From the Royal Mail website :


I've received someone else's mail


If you’ve received mail which has your address, but not your name, this is because we deliver to addresses rather than names. If this does happen, you can put a cross through the address and write 'Not known at this address' or 'No longer lives here' and put it back in a letterbox. Where possible, we’ll return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records.


Nothing could be clearer than that.

"You can", not "You must".

Nasqueron

Mojisola wrote: »

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That was posted after the post you all (wrongly) assumed to be referring to opening post, not delaying it. Don't try and move the goalposts, be the bigger man and admit you were wrong.

Mojisola wrote: »

"You can", not "You must".

The law quoted by Tarambor covers intentionally delaying post. I'd imagine it would be unlikely to lead to prosecution to just throw away post you know isn't for you because, for example, you lived in a house for 20 years and this post started arriving out of the blue but returning it as not known can avoid hassle from debt collectors. We had one just last week where it appears someone has either registered their car or driving license here (was a DVLA letter, I returned it unopened) and my partner before I met her and then us, have been in the house 18 years and the name isn't anyone we recognise.

Willing2Learn

I find the language used in the text of the legislation very unclear

I've just been looking up the legal definition of reasonable excuse (to delay or open a postal packet). There is a definition which is too long to type here, but it does not make things at all clear...

Also, the ambiguity of the phrase intending to act to a persons' detriment...
How would you prove intent in the OPs example??