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What's the record for mail addressed to previous residents?
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We get mail for the last but one owner, who sold the property to the last owners sometime in 2004. We also get mail for the last owner, who as I've already mentioned messed us about something chronic in the purchase. It has got less over time as I diligently mark 'not known, return to sender' every time, but we still get probably 6-8 items a week for the two owners and we've lived here two and a half years now.0
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I moved out from my parents back in 1997.
They still get mailshots from Gant, selling shirts and stuff, almost 20 years later
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The record that springs to mind is: Return to sender, address unknown ...0
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I should get a stamp instead of having to write 'Return to sender, Doesn't live here.'
Still get letters and credit cards from the two previous owners. Even got one cus they owed money to a credit card company, opened by mistake."It is prudent when shopping for something important, not to limit yourself to Pound land/Estate Agents"
G_M/ Bowlhead99 RIP0 -
I used to just bin them at the last place...0
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My parents (and I at the time) moved into their house in 1990, and we got a letter for the previous owners the other day - 26 years and counting - surely that must win?!0
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I have had post addressed to people who moved out of here in 2002. I've also had post for all 3 families who have lived here in between.
I think I have the record for the largest amount of post for a previous owner by weight. I rented out a property for a year to a music journalist. He moved out in September and didn't get a redirection, and I can't stop his post. The property is empty at the mo and when I go there every few weeks I can hardly get in the front door for all the CDs he is getting. There's usually about 50-60 packages (as well as all his normal post) each time. First couple of times I dumped it on the letting agent's desk and asked them to tell him to get a redirection, but after a few months I couldn't keep doing that so have had to mark all of them 'return to sender' and haul them down to the post box but they keep on coming!0 -
we get a christmas card simply signed "love from X,Y and family"...every year addressed to the previous owners of our house...no return address on the envelope
we have lived here 25 years ....they almost seem like friends now and I think if it didn't arrive one year we might wonder what had happened!frugal October...£41.82 of £40 food shopping spend for the 2 of us!
2017 toiletries challenge 179 out 145 in ...£18.64 spend0 -
We've owned our home for nearly 15 years and we're still getting mail for the previous owners. We also get mail for the same address but a neighbouring town with a different postcode!0
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I moved into my last home in 2000 and was still getting a christmas card each year for the last-but-one owner when I moved out in 2014. They never included a return address so I couldn't return it to sender.
About 6 years after I moved in I received the same ladies bus pass, together with her original birth certificate and NHS card (the council had 'returned' them to the old address, but her current address was on the paperwork) so I sent them on to her and included a note mentioning the christmas card, but it continued to arrive. I forwarded it to her the next year but after that I misplaced her address so it was back to returning it to the post office marked 'gone away'All posts are my personal opinion, not formal advice Always get proper, professional advice (particularly about anything legal!)0
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