Previous owner of my home applying for credit using my address

Beeblebr0x

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of course returning-to-sender isn’t guaranteed to stop such mail. But it’s far more likely to work than simply binning it. 

FreeBear

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.

Mail without a return address on the outside goes to a "Returns Unit" where it gets opened. If no return address is found inside, it ends up going to an incinerator if further inquiries fail to determine who posted it.

In all other cases, unopened mail gets returned to the sender free of charge - This is all embodied in the Universal Service obligation that Royal Mail is bound by. Non-compliance comes at a very steep cost (£10.5 million for the last USO breach).