It's a mixture of things. A few are official looking, one is a fine I think! Then there are a few with a hand written address. And there's four different people we're getting mail for. I thought it would settle down after 6 months, or even 12, but we still get at least one thing a week for someone else.
I've been in my house 3 years and I constantly get mail for the woman who used to live here. She hasn't even changed her address on her insurance. I used to write return to sender but now I just bin it. I figure if she hasn't changed her address by now she won't.
I suppose I am a bit naughty, I open some of the mail.
Because my unit number is the same as the street number, I get mail not only from the previous tenants of my unit, but previous tenants of other units.
Some of it is junk, and sometimes the unit number is inside the letter. If it's junk I bin it, if something else I put no longer at this address in Unit X AND RETURN TO SENDER.
I have had the same dilemma at some jobs I've done, a lot of the mail would come out to a company that doesn't exist, but with the address approximately of where I was working, and most of it was advertising.
We've been here 6 years and still get other people's mail. For a while I put 'Return to Sender' - after about two years or so I got tired of that & now I just bin it.
We usually RTS the official looking stuff but it takes a few months to actually get around to it.
When I worked doing casual admin stuff at uni I was once given a big pile of RTS envelopesand told to update the customer addresses as unknown... one envelope had a great big rant on it "We've been returning this mail to you for the past 18months! F**king update your records or we'll lodge a complaint". Okay...
DH been in house for 9 years and we still get mail for 2 lots of previous tenents, (i have lived here 8 years) and started return to sender and not at address anymore but got over it now just goes in recycle bin, some stuff is bank related but I figure not my responsibility after 8 years!!
We're on the other end. We've changed our address with all our service providers and yet still some go to our old address. Found out today that Aus Post has had an incorrect redirection going for over twelve months to some poor guy, who has kindly kept the mail for us. We think we've finally got it sorted now.
I'd be inclined to toss any advertising but keep RTS the important stuff. Sometimes it's not the previous person's fault.
I usually RTS the important looking stuff (we get the odd piece of mail for about 4 different people!), but I don't think it makes a difference because we just get the same company sending stuff again. i must admit was a bit naughty this morning, got a christmas card in the mail addressed to someone else but no return addy on it so I opened it (just in case there was money in it ) then threw it in the recycling.
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) then threw it in the recycling.
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