Why would someone not redirect their post?

user1977

LittleMissDetermined said:

The worry for me is that if they're not updating their address, what happens if they have debts and end up with bailiffs or worse?  

Why would that be a worry for you? If bailiffs ever come calling (and I suspect they're not going to bother without some preliminary checks that the address is up to date) you just tell them the previous owners have moved. They'll be used to it.

LittleMissDetermined

user1977 said:

LittleMissDetermined said:

The worry for me is that if they're not updating their address, what happens if they have debts and end up with bailiffs or worse?  

Why would that be a worry for you? If bailiffs ever come calling (and I suspect they're not going to bother without some preliminary checks that the address is up to date) you just tell them the previous owners have moved. They'll be used to it.

I guess so, I've never dealt with anything like that before so I don't really know how reasonable or not they would be!  

Owleyes00

rexmedorum said:

why don't people redirect?
other than previously mentioned:
- you can't redirect abroad (last time we moved anyway)
- it'll only be fore a sert number of names, some people / companes insist in using part of the name which might g through

If you can’t redirect abroad would you not set up a PO Box or redirect to a family member?

Also you can do extra names if you call them up (up to 9 I believe).

Drawingaline

We keep getting NHS letters for the previous occupiers child. They moved abroad. I have been returning them but won't be for much longer, they will be going in the bin.

Owleyes00

Drawingaline said:

We keep getting NHS letters for the previous occupiers child. They moved abroad. I have been returning them but won't be for much longer, they will be going in the bin.

There is definitely a threshold of tolerance! This is how I have gone from a trip into town to see the letting agent, to putting back in the post box, to probably chucking the next one 🙄😴

lookstraightahead

Drawingaline said:

We keep getting NHS letters for the previous occupiers child. They moved abroad. I have been returning them but won't be for much longer, they will be going in the bin.

Lots of children are taking part in covid questionnaires. The parents probably don't know they're being sent and redirection probably won't include the children. 

In the bin (destroyed hopefully) or in the post box, which is quicker? 

rexmedorum

Owleyes00 said:

rexmedorum said:

why don't people redirect?
other than previously mentioned:
- you can't redirect abroad (last time we moved anyway)
- it'll only be fore a sert number of names, some people / companes insist in using part of the name which might g through

If you can’t redirect abroad would you not set up a PO Box or redirect to a family member?

Also you can do extra names if you call them up (up to 9 I believe).

If you had family left in the Uk that would make sense, but if not I don't know what good a PO box would do.

lady1964

We’ve been in our house for almost 2 years and just 2 days ago, a letter arrived for the previous householder from one of the banks. This isn’t the first time, each time I’ve written ‘no longer at this address, moved out in November 2019, RTS’. 

At one point, we were getting regular letters for her from Amex, I sent each one back as we didn’t have a forwarding address. Eventually, for something unrelated, she called at our house, I mentioned the Amex letters and asked if she could let Amex know she’d moved. We didn’t receive any more Amex letters after that.
Junk mail and catalogue type mail I simply bin.

SusieT

rexmedorum said:

why don't people redirect?
other than previously mentioned:
- you can't redirect abroad (last time we moved anyway)
- it'll only be fore a sert number of names, some people / companes insist in using part of the name which might g through

You can redirect to most countries in the world, but it costs a lot more as does the extra person fee.

HampshireH

I've lived in my house just over 8 years. Still get NHS letters from bowel clinic for annual check up and pension letter from a company for former owner

After sending back for 3 years (so 3 times) I phoned the pension people told them what the letter said and asked them to stop 

Still get sporadic ones.  The NHS one I haven't phoned about but figured if they have health concerns they can choose to see their GP or whoever. If youre meant to have annual checkups you would know. I just bin them now

Bizarrely they are the only two companies he ever had mail from so must have made some effort to redirect.

I've never set up Royal mail redirection. But I have a list of those I need mail from and never missed an important letter etc. I wouldn't choose to pay royal mail to redirect spam/junk mail when in short term rentals 

When we sell up here I would pay as been here so long