Mail for previous Tenant

Antbell85

I received a message in the post - handwritten note from who I suppose is the previous tenant asking if there was any mail for him and where to forward it to. The note said that I could drop it off at his brothers who lives a few doors down. I was not in at the time.
There are some important looking documents - Driving, HMRC - should I return to sender or ask the Landlord what to do?

fiwen30

Personally I would return to sender by crossing out the address and popping it back into the postbox. Previous tenant should have set up a redirection service with Royal Mail, either to their new address or to the brother’s address, especially if they were expecting important documents.

It’s definitely not your responsibility to be handling anything that looks like official documents, you could be liable for something if you stuffed someone’s private information through another door’s letterbox. And who really knows who the note came from?

davidmcn

Just return to sender, they should be redirecting and telling senders their new address.

atrixa

I'd just return to sender. I still (after 8 years) get Christmas/birthday cards for the previous tenant without a return address on. They end up in the bin.

AdrianC

Return to sender.

You have no way of knowing if the note is legit - so definitely don't follow it. It may be somebody who knew the tenant, trying some kind of identity-theft scam.

brianposter

What a pain in the ar.e modern people have become ! Just follow the instructions.

jimpwarsop

Not known at this address, back to the RM.

We have lived here since the mid eighties and were redirecting for years, suddenly we got a letter from DVLC addressed to the people who left in the seventies !!  Apparently he is so old his driving license has expired.

I doubt he will be bothered he has been living in California for over forty years.

AdrianC

jimpwarsop said:

We have lived here since the mid eighties and were redirecting for years, suddenly we got a letter from DVLC addressed to the people who left in the seventies !!  Apparently he is so old his driving license has expired.

You've been there for 35 years... and he's "so old" he's just hit 70...

SpiderLegs

I would read it all then burn it 

Scotbot

SpiderLegs said:

I would read it all then burn it 

Tut tut that is not very eco friendly of you. You should read it then shred it.

staffie1

Antbell85 said:

I received a message in the post - handwritten note from who I suppose is the previous tenant asking if there was any mail for him and where to forward it to. The note said that I could drop it off at his brothers who lives a few doors down. I was not in at the time.
There are some important looking documents - Driving, HMRC - should I return to sender or ask the Landlord what to do?

The cheeky sod. Let them pay for redirection like the rest of us. Stick it in the bin. You’re not their personal postman.