Previous owner's mail

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If they haven't set up redirection after the first few weeks then it's clear they don't want to be found.

Any company that ignores returned mail isn't going to just stop the 7th time it happens, so no point wasting your time with that.

Bin them.

anon_ymous

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If they haven't set up redirection after the first few weeks then it's clear they don't want to be found.

Any company that ignores returned mail isn't going to just stop the 7th time it happens, so no point wasting your time with that.

Bin them.

They set up a redirection straight away but they obviously didn't change details in a fair few places which is why I received nothing for a while and then received more

ArbitraryRandom

The first few weeks/couple of months after moving in I did RTS/not known. 

After that I kept an eye open for court papers but chucked everything else. 

It's been two years and I still get some every now and then, but I've a box by the door for my own junk so it all goes in ready for the recycling. 

lookstraightahead

I drop it in at the previous owners as they only live a couple of miles away. It doesn't really take me out of my way and it's a pleasant thing to do.

if they live further away and you have no other address, I would just put rts and back in the box

I get Christmas/birthday cards sent to our old address and the new owner texts me every now and again and I go and fetch them out of her porch. She's lovely. I can't control everyone updating their address books so I guess it depends on us sometimes. 

Vannaa

Same as others, mail for previous tenants was marked 'RTS No longer at this address' for six months, after that it's all gone in the bin. I once had a old tenant knock on my door after a year in a property, saying 'she'd come to collect her mail'. She was quite upset and angry when I told her it had all been binned.

Slinky

user1977 said:

trix-a-belle said:

diystarter7 said:

Hi OP

Just cross out the address, your address and RTS. RM will sort it out.

If they are letters from debt collectors, I peronally go the extra mile and call/email them and give them their new addresses.

Thnaks

What do you think Royal Mail are going to do with it when there is no return address 

They open it to look for a return address. But yes, if that doesn't work either and the item isn't of intrinsic value, it's going to be binned.

RM stopped doing the opening of letters to return many years ago. At least 10, maybe longer. If it's got a return address on the outside they'll send it back, if it doesn't they don't.

Squeaky9

We still get Christmas cards with no return address on for the previous owners 2 years later. I don’t know their new address as they never left it but I do have their email, so they have been and picked up post before if I’ve let them know we have some. Christmas just gone however I left 3 cards for them (no return address) in the porch for them to collect as arranged. The postman delivering some of our post took the cards away with him however before they were collected, which we only realised when the previous owners came to collect them a few days later and they weren’t there (we had assumed that is what had happened to them, only realised it was the postie when checking the doorbell footage). 

Anyway 2 days later all 3 cards turned up in the post in a single envelope at the correct address and the previous owners emailed to say thanks. I had to admit I had nothing to do with it, but seems the postman took the cards back and they checked for a forward (previous owners had one set up for 6 months after they moved) and so sent the cards to that address. 

So RM do have their ways of getting post to the right place even if there is no return address. 

OutdoorQueen

Some other suggestions:

Make sure you have registered on the Electoral Role.  Some organisations will check this if they receive undelivered post back.  If the previous resident is still listed, organisations may still consider them to be resident, and not update records.

You can register previous residents here: https://www.mpsonline.org.uk/consumer/register
although not a miracle cure, it can help to alert organisations that people are no longer in the property.  

anon_ymous

OutdoorQueen said:

Some other suggestions:

Make sure you have registered on the Electoral Role.  Some organisations will check this if they receive undelivered post back.  If the previous resident is still listed, organisations may still consider them to be resident, and not update records.

You can register previous residents here: https://www.mpsonline.org.uk/consumer/register
although not a miracle cure, it can help to alert organisations that people are no longer in the property.  

Thanks. I've already done both though I believe the MPS is to stop marketing letters only 

diystarter7

Slinky said:

user1977 said:

trix-a-belle said:

diystarter7 said:

Hi OP

Just cross out the address, your address and RTS. RM will sort it out.

If they are letters from debt collectors, I peronally go the extra mile and call/email them and give them their new addresses.

Thnaks

What do you think Royal Mail are going to do with it when there is no return address 

They open it to look for a return address. But yes, if that doesn't work either and the item isn't of intrinsic value, it's going to be binned.

RM stopped doing the opening of letters to return many years ago. At least 10, maybe longer. If it's got a return address on the outside they'll send it back, if it doesn't they don't.

Hi

A link to confirm that please as this will help many that may want to bin them thinking its wrong.

Thnaks.