Mail for previous house owner?

mudcow007

we have had our house for coming up to 3 years

when we bought the house not long afterwards we got threatening letters of debt collectors saying the previous people had missed payments etc. this took a few phones calls an was sorted out.

on Saturday we got anything letter addressed to previous owner with "private an confidential" on

so i opened the letter inside is a cheque from Farepak for about £300

do i just reseal the envelope an put it back in the post with "unknown at this address" ?

i know your not suppose to open other peoples mail but i thought it was another debt letter plus the previous people didnt leave a forwarding address...

SimonAH

It's a tough one.

I'm still getting avg one letter a day for the previous owner of my house - over two years on.

For ages I was 'not known at this address'ing them. Now fed up with it and simply file them in the bin.

mudcow007

i was going to bin it but felt guilty because its a cheque

i will just send it back to them i reckons

SimonAH

.....or as you must have several other pieces of mail to establish identity, go and cash the cheque?






Kidding!

veronese68

Send the cheque to one of the debt collection agencies.

TheStone

mudcow007 wrote:

so i opened the letter inside is a cheque from Farepak for about £300

do i just reseal the envelope an put it back in the post with "unknown at this address" ?

i know your not suppose to open other peoples mail but i thought it was another debt letter plus the previous people didnt leave a forwarding address...

Tape it up and send it back with 'opened by mistake'.
No-one really cares about the opening mail law.

t4tomo

TheStone wrote:

mudcow007 wrote:

so i opened the letter inside is a cheque from Farepak for about £300

do i just reseal the envelope an put it back in the post with "unknown at this address" ?

i know your not suppose to open other peoples mail but i thought it was another debt letter plus the previous people didnt leave a forwarding address...

Tape it up and send it back with 'opened by mistake'.
No-one really cares about the opening mail law.

^^^^ +1. if you have no way of contactuing former occupiers then all you can do is send it back to farepak administrators - they'll then have to try to track them down - they will prob have emial address or mobile numbers on their records anyway

Headhuunter

Register all previous resident with the mail prefernce service or whatever it's called. When I moved into my current place I was getting post from loads of different previous residents but it all pretty much stopped after I registered them with the TPS...

mese13

when we moved into our current place, I discovered in a dusty corner of the attic a stack of photos of the previous owner, who we'd met several times as part of the sales process. he was at some sort of 'specialist' fancy dress party, with less emphasis on the fancy dress, and more emphasis on the specialist activities.

shall I send them to him at his new address?

mudcow007

cheers guys, back in the post it will go

fanks...unless i can pass as a Debbie?

EKE_38BPM

Mrs EKE is in a similar situation.

She has owned and has lived in her house for nearly seven years and still gets mail for the previous residents. For years she returned the mail to sender but it keeps coming. Some of the letters are from banks and credit card companies and she has opened some of them to get the details so that she could call the relevant companies to say the addressee is not known at the address and noticed that payments are still being made by the addressee for their credit card bill but also for contents insurance for Mrs EKE's property.

Other than returning the mail to the sender and telling the sender that the addressee is not known at that address, is there anything else that Mrs EKE can/should be doing?

davis

EKE_38BPM wrote:

Mrs EKE is in a similar situation.

She has owned and has lived in her house for nearly seven years and still gets mail for the previous residents. For years she returned the mail to sender but it keeps coming. Some of the letters are from banks and credit card companies and she has opened some of them to get the details so that she could call the relevant companies to say the addressee is not known at the address and noticed that payments are still being made by the addressee for their credit card bill but also for contents insurance for Mrs EKE's property.

Other than returning the mail to the sender and telling the sender that the addressee is not known at that address, is there anything else that Mrs EKE can/should be doing?

Mark them as "deceased: return to sender"?

Half-serious suggestion...