How Can I Stop The Ex Tenants Mail Being Delivered

[fabemmy]

I moved in to my new house about 4 months ago but I still recieve the ex tenants mail in the post I now have a big pile of post building up for them. Is there a way to stop this and can I return the post I have to the senders.

[Northernpopquiz]

Give it all back to the postman, he has authority to 'kill off' any letters returning them to the sender in each case. Just tell him / her the former addressee has gone away and he / she will do the rest. Alternatively you can write gone away on each letter and it will automatically go back to the postman to deal with.

[cassa333]

Just cross out your address and write 'not known at this address' over the envolope and put it back in the post box. Hopefuly the componaies sending it will realise.

However if you keep them they will not know they have moved. They may be in debt and eventualy you get a few calls from debt collection agencies!!

[Sycamore3House]

You can register with the'Mail Preference Service' so that only your name receives the mail. Just write RTS (return to sender) on the envelopes for the previous occupies and put them back in the post box.

[Peter Pedant]

If you have a forwarding address - then write in their new address

Other wise write in RTS - and then ring the address on the back and post back in a post box. If you dont write RTS all that happens is that they will be redelivered - to you !

what SHOULD then happen - hahaha is that the company should have an RTS dept and they shoujld then hur hur hur enter your address as a non-corrsponding non mail address.

If you watch 'Sherriffs' they say the first address they try for a CCJ is.... the old RTS address.

If you suspect fraud - then you can open the letters not addressed to you - I have just evicted a tenant after two police raids and god knows what and there seems to be good evidence that they were opening and answering their predecessors' letters [ inc financial ]which I think is gonna cause a lot of trouble for everyone.

[boxtops]

I've never contacted the senders, I just write "gone away, Return to Sender" on the front of the envelope, and stick them back in the pillarbox. No point in saying anything to the delivery postmen, we never get the same people two weeks running.

Just write on each one, emmy, and shove 'em all back in the post to be returned to the senders.

[kawanabe]

I wouldn't forward the post on as otherwise senders may not get the message that people have moved on, and for the ex tenants no incentive for them to then get in touch and formally change their address. As others have said just write RTS and pop in the letter box - it may take a while but does tend to be the most effective way to gradually cut down the post. And I seem to recall that some post, such as letters from DWP, cannot be forwarded anyway - they have to be returned to sender.

[ladybirder]

Northern you must have a better postman than me. Mine refused point blank to take it and said he wasn't allowed??? Return to sender is the only way to stop it. It's a damned nuisance, I'm sick of it. When I move I pay the Post Office to forward mine to my new address; why can't the seller of the property I buy do the same?