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Previous owner of my home applying for credit using my address

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  • Beeblebr0x
    Beeblebr0x Posts: 314 Forumite
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    glennevis said:
    user1977 said:
    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Or open it if you want (there's no law against doing so if it's addressed to your address), and then return to sender...
    If there's a lot of mail shorten it to
     NATA RTS
    which will be understood by RM (as advised by my postie). 
    Not at this address, return to sender
  • TheJP
    TheJP Posts: 1,969 Forumite
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    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Return to sender is pointless, RM just bin it. They dont return it as its costly. Just bin it.
  • Beeblebr0x
    Beeblebr0x Posts: 314 Forumite
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    TheJP said:
    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Return to sender is pointless, RM just bin it. They dont return it as its costly. Just bin it.
    Wrong. (Postman for 12 years)
  • TheJP
    TheJP Posts: 1,969 Forumite
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    Beeblebr0x said:
    TheJP said:
    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Return to sender is pointless, RM just bin it. They dont return it as its costly. Just bin it.
    Wrong. (Postman for 12 years)
    In all the years ive done this, i still get mail for my previous owner. Its not guaranteed that it will make it back to the sender.
  • Martico
    Martico Posts: 1,172 Forumite
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    TheJP said:
    Beeblebr0x said:
    TheJP said:
    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Return to sender is pointless, RM just bin it. They dont return it as its costly. Just bin it.
    Wrong. (Postman for 12 years)
    In all the years ive done this, i still get mail for my previous owner. Its not guaranteed that it will make it back to the sender.
    It's not guaranteed that the sender will remove the recipient from their mailing list
  • user1977
    user1977 Posts: 17,915 Forumite
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    Martico said:
    TheJP said:
    Beeblebr0x said:
    TheJP said:
    jaybeetoo said:
    Don’t open mail not addressed to you.  Write ‘not known at this address - return to sender’ and put it in the nearest post box.
    Return to sender is pointless, RM just bin it. They dont return it as its costly. Just bin it.
    Wrong. (Postman for 12 years)
    In all the years ive done this, i still get mail for my previous owner. Its not guaranteed that it will make it back to the sender.
    It's not guaranteed that the sender will remove the recipient from their mailing list
    This. At my work we (quite reliably as far as I can figure out) receive any such bounced mail.
  • Tabieth
    Tabieth Posts: 332 Forumite
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    Of course returning-to-sender isn’t guaranteed to stop such mail. But it’s far more likely to work than simply binning it. 
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