Legal requirement to send mail?
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Hi,
Long time lurker here
I would like to ask if anyone can please give me some advice about a mail problem.
Essentially, three years ago, my husband and I moved into the current house. We knew where the previous owner had moved to and we asked him what we should do about any mail once the redirect ended. He said to throw it away.
We then kept getting identical letters addressed to the occupier saying that a company needed to contact the previous owner and they had a legal requirement to continue sending documents to their last known address. They didn't look like spam, they looked important so we forwarded one on to the previous owner by post. We also scanned and emailed him another copy. There were lots of letters turning up at this point and we were getting fed up of them. So, we wrote to the company stating that we had passed their mail on and we didn't want contact from them again. We had no intention of giving them personal or contact details of the previous owner without his consent and we told them this.
It all went quiet for about a year and now another identical letter has turned up
So my question is: Is there really a legal requirement for them to continue sending mail to the last known address? Or is this just a line that they are spinning? If so, they know full well that they will get nothing from us so what would be the point?
Thanks for reading!
Long time lurker here
I would like to ask if anyone can please give me some advice about a mail problem.
Essentially, three years ago, my husband and I moved into the current house. We knew where the previous owner had moved to and we asked him what we should do about any mail once the redirect ended. He said to throw it away.
We then kept getting identical letters addressed to the occupier saying that a company needed to contact the previous owner and they had a legal requirement to continue sending documents to their last known address. They didn't look like spam, they looked important so we forwarded one on to the previous owner by post. We also scanned and emailed him another copy. There were lots of letters turning up at this point and we were getting fed up of them. So, we wrote to the company stating that we had passed their mail on and we didn't want contact from them again. We had no intention of giving them personal or contact details of the previous owner without his consent and we told them this.
It all went quiet for about a year and now another identical letter has turned up
So my question is: Is there really a legal requirement for them to continue sending mail to the last known address? Or is this just a line that they are spinning? If so, they know full well that they will get nothing from us so what would be the point?
Thanks for reading!
Yes, I am concerned that we will be inundated with them again and they are in plain envelopes addressed to the occupier so they always get opened. Helpfully, they always enclose a franked self-addressed envelope which is how I told them off last time
I just wondered if the legal requirement bit was genuine...
I just wondered if the legal requirement bit was genuine...
ashleyman said:
It's all gone quiet now, Croydon, Sutton and Kingston council are still sending car park fines, the debt collectors are still sending invoices, HMRC have just sent a tax return letter. DVLA sent the car tax reminder. - I only know these things as I'm getting the same post but addressed to me or matching up the addresses on the back with old letters.
We started off by doing RTS or not known here but they just kept coming. Now we just throw them in the bin.
That sounds like a nightmare! We started off by doing RTS or not known here but they just kept coming. Now we just throw them in the bin.
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