Ex-resident still using my address for...
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Numerous things. Such as tax returns, mobile phone contracts and finance.
If I'd have moved in the last year, maybe I'd have that he hasn't had time to change address. But it's been 8 years.
Over the years I've returned them to sender saying he doesn't live here, I've never opened anything.
Today I received another letter, brown envelope from 'tax returned' registered in London.
I'm getting pretty sick of it to be honest. Are there any legal implications with him using my address for tax returns/Mobile bills/finance? Where do I stand if there are any comebacks? Should I just open everything and look at his stuff?
I tried to locate him but got no where, all I know is he moved to a pub fairly localish but that was 8 years ago. I can't even remember his partners name.
If I'd have moved in the last year, maybe I'd have that he hasn't had time to change address. But it's been 8 years.
Over the years I've returned them to sender saying he doesn't live here, I've never opened anything.
Today I received another letter, brown envelope from 'tax returned' registered in London.
I'm getting pretty sick of it to be honest. Are there any legal implications with him using my address for tax returns/Mobile bills/finance? Where do I stand if there are any comebacks? Should I just open everything and look at his stuff?
I tried to locate him but got no where, all I know is he moved to a pub fairly localish but that was 8 years ago. I can't even remember his partners name.
t him up a bit.Wow, have you really been sending stuff back for 8 years or have I misread your post? 
I got pretty fed up over a mere 15 months with returning mail (mostly from DCAs) as RTS. Despite there being an 'if undelivered' return address on all of them the message fell on deaf ears and the paper chase continued. The addressee turned out to be a previous tenant at the property and had done a runner. The defaulter was a female foreign (EU) national. From that point on I opened everything which included a missive from her country's Consulate in the UK! I contacted all of the letter writers to tell them what I had found out (she had absconded over 2 years previously) and that I had no knowledge whatever of her whereabouts. I suggested to the DCAs that she might well have fled the UK to her country of origin and wished them luck tracing her. I haven't been bothered once since then.
I got pretty fed up over a mere 15 months with returning mail (mostly from DCAs) as RTS. Despite there being an 'if undelivered' return address on all of them the message fell on deaf ears and the paper chase continued. The addressee turned out to be a previous tenant at the property and had done a runner. The defaulter was a female foreign (EU) national. From that point on I opened everything which included a missive from her country's Consulate in the UK! I contacted all of the letter writers to tell them what I had found out (she had absconded over 2 years previously) and that I had no knowledge whatever of her whereabouts. I suggested to the DCAs that she might well have fled the UK to her country of origin and wished them luck tracing her. I haven't been bothered once since then.
Yep, 8 years. Started with about 2 a month, now it's one every 6 months. But the ones we get seem to be tax related, mobile phone or finance.
I think the finance ones may have just been spam stuff.
The worst thing is that I know he is local, hopefully I'll find out where he lives and can have a word.
You sound like you sorted it pretty quick, advice taken.
Annoying though isn't it.
I think the finance ones may have just been spam stuff.
The worst thing is that I know he is local, hopefully I'll find out where he lives and can have a word.
You sound like you sorted it pretty quick, advice taken.
Annoying though isn't it.
It amazes me what people fail to redirect to their new address. Payslips from the army being one example. Eventually had to speak to the regiment to get it sorted. Think someone was in for some words of advice after that.
One thing our postie told me about wrongly delivered mail, even if they KNOW it's wrong, they HAVE to deliver it to the address as written, and not the address where they know the individual lives. Correct thing to do is to mark it not at this address and stick it back in the post. Don't take it round to the correct place as nobody bothers to change anything and you are stuck with redirecting it forever.
One thing our postie told me about wrongly delivered mail, even if they KNOW it's wrong, they HAVE to deliver it to the address as written, and not the address where they know the individual lives. Correct thing to do is to mark it not at this address and stick it back in the post. Don't take it round to the correct place as nobody bothers to change anything and you are stuck with redirecting it forever.
Lgfst said:
You sound like you sorted it pretty quick, advice taken.
Needed to nip it in the bud before I had to start dealing with enforcement officers (aka bailiffs/HCEOs back then) pounding on my door seeking to enforce an uncontested County Court judgement or, even worse, a High Court Writ (at that time Fi Fa rather than Control) against her. From what I gleaned I think I was just in time!Lgfst said:
Annoying though isn't it.
Very! FiF said:
It amazes me what people fail to redirect to their new address.
Indeed. But some folk fail to do so quite deliberately.FiF said:
One thing our postie told me about wrongly delivered mail, even if they KNOW it's wrong, they HAVE to deliver it to the address as written, and not the address where they know the individual lives. Correct thing to do is to mark it not at this address and stick it back in the post. Don't take it round to the correct place as nobody bothers to change anything and you are stuck with redirecting it forever.
Point taken. However if it's someone local and I know the person I'll mention politely that I'll oblige them for two to three weeks max but only at my own convenience. I won't be responsible for the consequences of any delay and they need to set up a redirection pdq and, where necessary, notify the sender to update their database (it's amazing how many don't). At the end of the stipulated period it will all be returned 'Addressee not known, RTS'. The ball is then in their court. I won't accept anything for which a signature is needed.Having moved last year and had problems with this, I always open the post, get on the phone to the company and tell them I've had a letter from them for so and so and that they don't live here any more.
DVLA, HMRC etc, they never see bother I've opened the post. They usually say can you put return to sender on the envelope but it just goes in the bin.
Usually doing that one will stop the problem, they can update their address info there and then saying don't sent post to my address.
It has worked well and can really reduce your junk mail if you're bothered by getting stuff addressed to other people - which I am as I plan to live here a while!
DVLA, HMRC etc, they never see bother I've opened the post. They usually say can you put return to sender on the envelope but it just goes in the bin.
Usually doing that one will stop the problem, they can update their address info there and then saying don't sent post to my address.
It has worked well and can really reduce your junk mail if you're bothered by getting stuff addressed to other people - which I am as I plan to live here a while!
bobtail4x4 said:
a house a mile away has a similar house name, and similar postcode, ours ends in G theirs ends D,
we drop mail to them and they drop mail to us,
Strange isn't it, many people on this forum cast doubt on others when they say they haven't got their speeding ticket in the post, yet many of us got wrongly delivered mail!we drop mail to them and they drop mail to us,
The house I live in was bought by my family in 1982 from an 81 year old lady whose father had it built in 1901.
She moved to the UK from Kenya whenever there was some trouble there and the British were chucked out. 1960s/70s I guess?
We still get letters for her forwarded from her old address in Africa despite attempts by my Dad 30-odd years ago to forward the letters to her new address. She moved to the Caribbean for the last years of her life. If she was alive she'd be 115 years old.
I got post for her just before Christmas.
She moved to the UK from Kenya whenever there was some trouble there and the British were chucked out. 1960s/70s I guess?
We still get letters for her forwarded from her old address in Africa despite attempts by my Dad 30-odd years ago to forward the letters to her new address. She moved to the Caribbean for the last years of her life. If she was alive she'd be 115 years old.
I got post for her just before Christmas.
All that jazz said:
As someone who has worked for RM I can tell you that sending any undelivered post back as "return to sender/not known at this address" etc is a complete waste of time as it just sits in a pile for months then eventually gets binned. It never goes back to the sender so just bin it.
Really how did a credit card of mine get stopped because my tenant sent the mail back not known at this address. I called the card company and they said we had posted back not know at this address?Opening mail is an offence I believe so tread carefully.
All that jazz said:
As someone who has worked for RM I can tell you that sending any undelivered post back as "return to sender/not known at this address" etc is a complete waste of time as it just sits in a pile for months then eventually gets binned. It never goes back to the sender so just bin it.
Absolute rubbish.I deliver to a trading estate and regularly get returned letters that have been returned to sender.
When it gets back to the postie he sticks a sticker on it saying why it has been returned then it gets sent back to the returned address.
egor110 said:
All that jazz said:
As someone who has worked for RM I can tell you that sending any undelivered post back as "return to sender/not known at this address" etc is a complete waste of time as it just sits in a pile for months then eventually gets binned. It never goes back to the sender so just bin it.
Absolute rubbish.I deliver to a trading estate and regularly get returned letters that have been returned to sender.
When it gets back to the postie he sticks a sticker on it saying why it has been returned then it gets sent back to the returned address.
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