Spam mail addressed not to me-is there anyway to block/stop

[B'stard Child]

Surely you have a bin?

[Roo]

Just write 'not known at this address' on the envelope and put it in a post box.

[Roo]

Sellotape it to a house brick first?

[Truffles]

I still get stuff from charities and financial companies addressed to a previous owner who moved out over 20 tears ago. I tried returning mail, but it didn't work. If these companies, which are national names. cannot sort out mailing lists, there is definitely no hope that scammers will.

[ooo000ooo]

use the returns envelope for scammer A to send the bumpf from scammer B and vice versa. For extra points add extra weight so that they get charged additional for delivery.

[robinessex]

Open the mail. Remove any addressed and stamped envelopes. Fill envelopes with other spam mail. Post.

[Dwight VanDriver]

Have you considered if this can help?:

http://www.tpsonline.org.uk/tps/index.html

dvd

[kinabalu]

Try this, worked for me. I sent it back not as this address, say 3 or 4 times. If they took no notice posted it back in A4 envelope stuffed with weighty newspapers & no stamp so they incurred postage & surcharges. There is a weight limit on this so don't go overboard.

Result, no junk mail for years.

[Who me ?]

I'd suggest writing to RM stating that any mail for the deceased person WILL be returned unopened and marked RTS. This costs RM, who might oblige by binning it themselves to save costs.

[jesta1865]

we still get stuff for the guy who used to live in our place, he died 16 years ago.

i've written not known at this address on stuff, and it's been redelivered with my note crossed out!

[masermartin]

I've had this as soon as the standard Royal Mail redirect expired. I just wrote "Return To Sender - Not Known At This Address" on everything and bunged it back in the post box, it's died out mostly now, I just get a mailshot from the Sun for their 2p ferry trip to France every summer and something from some motor mechanics trade body once a year but everyone else seems to have got the message. Deliberately dishonest spam, though, will be much more difficult to get rid of...

[KFC]

For every letter they send you, they're wasting resources that could have been used to try and scam some other old granny.

I'd just let them pile up and drop them off at a paper recycle bin every so often...

[Humper]

My mother is plagued by this st, I read a lot, so to get rid of my old books I send them to these tts using their reply envelope taped to the book, and as books fit in a postbox
Realistically there is no way to stop them though, the bds seem to be able to keep sending this st and RM have no incentive to stop them as they're getting paid.

[Aretnap]

Personally I'd just bin it and do nothing. Every stamp they use to send a scm or begging letter to you is one that they can't use to send the to a vulnerable old person who might actually be taken in by them.

[aw51 121565]

There is something called the "deceased preference service" (I kid ye not!!) who claim to be able to head this junk mail off at the pass (don't ask me how I know ).

Knowimg the deceased person's death certificate number is, sadly, a requirement - but if the OP can search this out... hopefully.