What do you do with previous tenant's/owner's mail... when it's been 18 months+

[Sterla]

DH and I have been in our house for over 18 months now, and we are still getting a fair bit of mail for the people who used to live here. We always used to write "No longer at this address" on the envelope and mail it off again. But we've been doing this now for a long time and it's starting to feel like it's never going to stop!

Is there any other options other than keeping on doing that - cause I forget most of the time and some of it has been sitting in a pile for quite a few months!

[Rowellen]

I would bet it's probably just advertising mail that's still coming. Just toss it. That's what we do (and it's been 3 years!).

If it does look like something official, I still return to sender. ETA - it often takes me a few months too

[human bean]

The same is happening to us here, and I do the same as Rowellen. We also get mail for their adult children too which is annoying

[~me~]

Perhaps go to the Post Office and see what they can do? There may be a thing at the mail sorting end where things addressed to you will only get through?
Otherwise, return to sender, no longer at this address.
Is it repeat companies doing the sending?

[Sterla]

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.

[Sterla]

Lol, recycling you say...

Maybe after Christmas I'll take it all to the post office and ask them. If they can't help, well I guess I might start binning it... maybe.

[Tinks]

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.

[emc2]

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.

[Fleur]

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.

[maz]

Sure is another option

its called recycling it

We've lived here for 11 years and STILL getting mail for the people we bought the place from....I was nice for the first 3 years and then said stuff it...time to bin it

[helle]

yep. throw it in the bin ><;

if they haven't missed it enough to change their address then they don't need it... maybe even ring whatever company and tell them yourself that such and such isn't you if just throwing it away doesn't sit will with you.