getting post for someone who has never lived here

melancholly

kazwookie wrote: »

Just write RTS on it and stick in the post box next time you are passing.

it's just that after doing that 30+ times for the same person to the same address, i figure that approach isn't working!!

jonnyb

if you open mail addresses for someone else, who would know ?

found this on uk.answers.yahoo.com :

Interfering with mail - Postal Services Act 2000 Section 84

Triable Summarily (Magistrates court)
6 Months and or a fine (Max)

A person commits an offence if they without reasonable excuse intentionally delay or open a postal packet in the course of transmission by post or intentionally opens a mail bag.

A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, opens a postal packet which they know or suspect to have been delivered incorrectly.

If you work for the Post service you could commit other offences under Section 83 triable either way (Magistrates or Crown court) and get a sentence of 2 years and or a fine.

Mojisola

jonnyb wrote: »

A person commits an offence if they without reasonable excuse intentionally delay or open a postal packet in the course of transmission by post or intentionally opens a mail bag.

Countless letters to someone who doesn't live at your address - definitely reasonable excuse.

eamon

Thousands of people get incorrect mail everyday. Mostly for previous occupiers.

The purpose of the legislation wasn't/isn't to penalise people who are genuinely trying to get mail to its rightful owner. If there is a return address on the envelope then thats easy just do as most posters have said and for many the problem will go away. (some large mail senders are difficult to convince)

If you have exhausted all reasonable means of identifying who the mail should be for then the only correct thing to do is to cross out the address and write beside/beneath/above "not known at this address" and pop it back it back in the post.

Of course you can be nosy!

Eamon

whatatwit

When I get letters addressed to someone else, I cross through the name/address on the letter and write next to it "Not Known"

Eventually, a letter will appear addressed to "The Occupier" which i open and will usually ask for a forwarding address or details of Mr X.
I tend to 'phone the number if there is one and give what details i know if any and also return the letter confirming the info I have given.
The letters do stop.....after a while, although they may start up again after a couple of years, especially if it is a debt that has been passed on.

I used to rent out a property and after a while, you begin to recognise the return addresses on debt collection letters.

pinkpong

I would definately open them specialy the once marked as confidential. If the address is matching yours , but a different name. Don`t delay.
We we returning previous ocupiers post all the time for about 2 years, untill one day I wriped it up accidentaly without looking at it. It saved our A***s. Them people were heavyly in debt, that perticular letter was a last step before the Bilifts turning up on my door step. They would not care who I am they would take everything we had. Hence I had to look through the window and ask before I could open the front door ( hubbys orders). It was a frightening experience which lasted about a year.
If the address is matching my address it is for me to open as far as I am concerned.
Good luck anyway.:money:

custardy

whatatwit wrote: »

When I get letters addressed to someone else, I cross through the name/address on the letter and write next to it "Not Known"

Eventually, a letter will appear addressed to "The Occupier" which i open and will usually ask for a forwarding address or details of Mr X.
I tend to 'phone the number if there is one and give what details i know if any and also return the letter confirming the info I have given.
The letters do stop.....after a while, although they may start up again after a couple of years, especially if it is a debt that has been passed on.

I used to rent out a property and after a while, you begin to recognise the return addresses on debt collection letters.

yeah i see it all the time.
debt letters just start up again after a lull
they seem to just try any address on file

barncopxx

The only sure fire way to deal with this is to contact the sender of each letter direct and tell them that no-one by that name lives at that address, and remind them of the Data Protection Act and fraud prevention. All Royal Mail's part in the process is simply to transfer the letter from the sender to the recipient. They will return it to the sender if you write all over the letter but if the sender does not update their database then they will keep coming.
If the sender encloses a freepost envelope, put your complaint into it, send it to them and let them pay the postage!;)

melancholly

well when the next one arrives (i give it another 2/3 days!), i'll open it up and get in touch with the sender. please let it not be a debt collector!!

Slinky

We rented our house out for 3 years, to 4 different lots of tenants over that time. We've been back 3 years and don't get much for them now, but it seems that every now and then we get a batch of stuff come through all at the same time, for different tenants, from different companies, then it all goes quiet again. I had to open one letter that kept turning up addressed to the mother of one of the tenants who'd never lived in our house and I knew lived in Spain but no idea where. Turned out to be minutes of a residents association property miles away. I phoned them up and explained and fortunately they stopped coming.