Legal requirement to send mail?
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The guy who owned the place before we did cheaped out on a 3 month mail re-direct. We had NO post for the first month, then our own post started to trickle to the new address once everyone was updated.
After 3 months we were getting 4 or 5 letters a day addressed to the old owner. I had the new address but it was filed away and I was just stacking the letters up in a corner. Eventually we got a court summons dropped off, I refused it but the guy insisted I take it even though I had proof the man wasn't here anymore.
I decided I'd had enough and opened a few of the letters, the guy was in MASSIVE amounts of debt, was accumulating parking tickets like nothing I'd ever seen before. Then the bailiffs started showing up looking for him and again I was having to prove I wasn't the man they were looking for.
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.
EDIT:
Just to add, I spoke to the postman about it but he said that RM had a obligation to get the letters through the door they were addressed too and not just to the person. There's no way I could set up a re-direct you just to have live with RTS and hope the companies get the message.
After 3 months we were getting 4 or 5 letters a day addressed to the old owner. I had the new address but it was filed away and I was just stacking the letters up in a corner. Eventually we got a court summons dropped off, I refused it but the guy insisted I take it even though I had proof the man wasn't here anymore.
I decided I'd had enough and opened a few of the letters, the guy was in MASSIVE amounts of debt, was accumulating parking tickets like nothing I'd ever seen before. Then the bailiffs started showing up looking for him and again I was having to prove I wasn't the man they were looking for.
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.
EDIT:
Just to add, I spoke to the postman about it but he said that RM had a obligation to get the letters through the door they were addressed too and not just to the person. There's no way I could set up a re-direct you just to have live with RTS and hope the companies get the message.
Edited by ashleyman on Friday 15th April 09:02
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.
Still getting letters addressed to the old tenant even after sending them all back with RTS.
Yesterday was a new experience, some guy came round looking for the previous tenant as he owed money on his TV license. The fella didn't get that he didn't live here anymore and wouldn't go away after we told him multiple times who we were, that we now lived here and we didn't know where the other guy was (lost the bit of paper) so had the door firmly slammed in his face. Saw him about 5 minutes later walk off down the road...
Yesterday was a new experience, some guy came round looking for the previous tenant as he owed money on his TV license. The fella didn't get that he didn't live here anymore and wouldn't go away after we told him multiple times who we were, that we now lived here and we didn't know where the other guy was (lost the bit of paper) so had the door firmly slammed in his face. Saw him about 5 minutes later walk off down the road...
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