Misused Address

walesrob

beany_bot wrote: »

didn't say it breaks any laws. But surely the procedure if you get post not for you is to just scribble on the envelope. RETURN TO SENDER ADDRESSEE DOESN'T LIVE HERE.

Or is that too obvious and old fashioned?

Why should one have to do that? I've done it 100's of times, and I'm not wasting another 5 minutes doing something that clearly doesn't work.



It disgusts me how people can just move out of a rented property, leave no forwarding address and expect the new tenant to have to deal with the letters. Are there no morals left in this world? Maybe I'll do the same, and let the next tenant suffer my debt collection letters.

[Deleted User]

beany_bot wrote: »

But surely the procedure if you get post not for you is to just scribble on the envelope. RETURN TO SENDER ADDRESSEE DOESN'T LIVE HERE.

How many times do you propose to do that, before opening them, to find out what it's all about?

System

walesrob wrote: »

and if you had watched the Bailiffs on TV they always ask for proof you are the tenant. They are hardly going to say 'ok guv fair cop we'll go now'. They'll want proof. Something like a tenancy agreement.

Em no.
If someone knocks my door and says are you/I'm looking for bob.
I will say I am not Bob and no bob lives here.
Bye.

That's it. I don't need to prove who I am to a random lol.

AncientPerson

Thanks to everyone who has taken an interest in my little problem.

The current situation is that after I wrote the the Company Secretary of Capital One at the registered address threatening to raise the the matter with the FCA and other authorities I received an acknowledgement. This was a cobbled together letter from various standard paragraphs but it did accept that C One had a problem and would try to sort it out, it still referred to the alleged legal duty and claimed that I had no grounds for complaint. I await further developments, if any.

A debt collection agency reacted more sensibly on the phone and said that there would be no more mail sent to my address.

I think that the issue of my opening the mail is a red herring as my intention was to solve a problem not to do harm.

Ergates

AncientPerson wrote: »

I think that the issue of my opening the mail is a red herring as my intention was to solve a problem not to do harm.

Absolutely without a shadow of a doubt, you're in the clear on that one.