Previous owner declining to update address

Niv

I still get mail 6 years on!

Skiddaw1

We were still occasionally getting mail for the previous owners of our previous house up to the point we moved (and we lived in previous house for nearly 20 years). I think there's always going to be something that gets through (most of it I am sure was effectively junk and no doubt the people who bought our old house still occasionally recieve post addressed to us).

The people we bought current house from live locally and our next door neighbour, who is a close friend, delivers any post we recieve for them when she visits them. It isn't much especially now we're three years down the line but again, there's always something that escapes the net.

On the other hand, I'd not be happy if it was clear previous owners of any house we'd moved to had clearly made minimal, or no, efforts to update their address. I don't see why anyone should be forced to take on the role of a post- restante.

Peggy0628

Ade_J said:

When we dropped some round this morning, we found out that there is a lot more post coming here than we had realised, but the neighbour had persuaded our postman to drop it directly to her.

I'd be more concerned about my own mail getting accidentally dropped off at the neighbour's house and her keeping/discarding it/giving it to he previous owner along with the rest of the mail.

As far as I know, the postie is required to deliver mail to an address, not a person. So if they're delivering it to a different house number, they're breaking the rules (or maybe even laws, not sure how it's regulated).

Zerforax

We've got a similar issue (having moved around 2 months ago). The neighbour behind us sees the previous owner so a couple of times I handed them the post (as it looked like important papers). Now it's just going into a bag and I'll hand to the neighbour in a month or so.

If they get something important late? Well their own problem for not doing the re-direct.

trix-a-belle

Slinky said:

Who on earth has parcels sent to an old address more than once by accident?

The daughter of the previous owners of my place, who didn't actually ever live here.

I'm another for return to sender to focus their attention. I got nothing for 12 months for the parents who lived here so suspect they did have a redirection in place but they didn't actually bother to update several things so after 12 months a trickle of odds and ends started (got a parcel for the daughter & medical & banking related letters for the son who also didn't live here). They had moved to the other end of the village so only a short walk (but past the post box) so I started off putting things through their door but after a while it got boring and I felt they were somewhat rude as they never apologised, never said thank you & once when dropping off a (2nd) parcel for the daughter they didn't even answer the door so I was done & it goes in the post box as return to sender.
I even had a pension letter for his mother who never lived here the other year (I've been here 5 years now) & last year I even got a tv license confirmation to my address with my address on but confirming the license for their current address but didn't have that at all in the intervening several years.

michelle09

Slinky said:

We had the bailiffs put a letter through the door for the previous occupant (our tenant). The tenant hadn't left a forwarding address, but we did have the address of his mother, which I passed to the bailiff. Anything junk I redirected to her for a while, then RTS. A couple of letters from the same organisation turned up still after RTS so I opened and phoned them, then they stopped.

Who on earth has parcels sent to an old address more than once by accident?

Son of the old owners of our house. Kept having ASOS packages delivered here, coming to get them and promising to change the address. After the third I contacted ASOS myself and got a returns label.

He was unimpressed (apparently it was needed quite urgently) but we've not had any since.