Letter received for unknown person - special delivery.

Jenni_D

alewin said:

Apologies if I started an argument discussion, anything in future I will simply open.

I don't see any arguments.

Manxman_in_exile

Jenni_D said:

Jenni with an i not a y

Whoops!  Never noticed... 

Jenni_D

You weren't the only one, hence why I posted.

theonlywayisup

clearancer said:

Otherwise, take it to a post office and ask for their advice.

What do you think the Post Office will be able to do?  Or do you mean Royal Mail?  The Post Office haven't delivered the item. 

Sooler

MalMonroe said:

If it's the correct address but the wrong name, then it's obviously a mistake and the package is meant for the named person and not you.

50:50 ... could be package meant for the address

born_again

Always best to check with family before taking any action

pulliptears

Manxman_in_exile said:

I make a practice of opening everything that comes through our letterbox that is correctly addressed to my house.  I am particularly keen to open mail that is addressed to anybody I do not know.  I want to find out why someone I don't know is apparently using my address as a post office box.  Who knows what else they may be doing with my address?

Exactly this.  When we bought our house a few years ago it had been used for almost a decade as a short term rental.  At one point I noted down all the names we had post for and it was somewhere around 18 different people.
I opened everything, checked it was nothing that would affect me in any way then re sealed and returned to sender.

One ex tenant had purchased herself a nice new phone instore and used this address for billing.  Had quite a battle with O2 to make them understand that this person didn't live here, they wouldn't talk to me as I wasn't the account holder.  

Another was still having her monthly, expensive magazine sent here (quite how you don't miss that I don't know) and I managed to get that stopped by messaging the distributor.  

One woman even had her entire end of year accounts sent here and was surprised when she came calling to find I'd sent it back as not known at this address.  Apparently I should have known she'd come for it!  Same woman also never updated her address with her accountant at all, so when the speeding fines for the company car started to arrive I ended up contacting the local police and the accountant - who amusingly hadn't represented her for years and she'd not updated that either 😂

After several years it's starting to finally slow to a trickle of maybe 2 or 3 letters a week.

Keep_pedalling

I also open anything sent to our address. Don’t get much but the last thing that turned up was from a loan company to an unknown (possibly fictitious) person regarding acting as a guarantor.