Threatening letters to previous owner

Section62

theartfullodger said:

Why are you opening letters addressed to someone else?  Would you be happy if someone else opens your letters? (I'm not...). 
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Why wouldn't you open letters sent to your address by someone who is chasing the previous occupant for money?

The person in question has the ability to stop someone else opening and reading letters addressed to them, by the simple measures of either paying for Royal Mail forwarding, or advising the letter writer(s) of their new address.

These letters are likely still coming because the latter is the last thing the person in question wants to do.  So the risk of someone else opening and reading their mail is the small price they must pay for their lack of consideration for other people.  If they get the hump about this then they only have themselves to blame.

lincroft1710

theartfullodger said:

Why are you opening letters addressed to someone else?  Would you be happy if someone else opens your letters? (I'm not...). 

Best wishes to all 

If I receive a letter sent to my address but for someone I do not know, then I would want to find out who has sent this letter and if possible, why they have sent it. Many years ago a letter was sent to my (then) address to a company. Letter was from a credit reference agency seeking a reference for another company. I also received another letter addressed to the same company (but from a different sender) a few months later 

Mutton_Geoff

GDB2222 said:

Mutton_Geoff said:

GDB2222 said:

Mutton_Geoff said:

If they aren't addressed to you personally, they can't be considered harrassment.

This is how TV Licensing work with their endless stream of threatening letters sent to my address FAO "The Occupier". More than 50 since I moved here in summer 2021.

Just bin them, you tried the RTS, it didn't work.

Just run that past me again, please. The letters are addressed to the occupier. You are the occupier. I’d say that they are addressed to you. The thing is that people are so used to these silly letters that they probably wouldn’t be able to prove that they were actually harassed by them! 

Not so. I involved my local MP and this is what he said.

I expect You Tube or AI will provide plenty of examples of people who have escalated harrassment claims against TVL and failed.

I can’t find any cases where someone has sued TVL for harassment, at all, funnily enough. 

Which thus supports my argument that their behaviour isn't regarded as harrassment. I also said escalating a claim, ie complaint, rather than a legal claim as in suing someine.

Maybe a FOI request might reveal the number?