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Opening Mail
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If you live alone do you, like me, just open all the mail without looking at the envelope?
I did when MrG was alive but why bother now.
I have just opened a large envelope containing a nice letter from Addenbrooke's hospital thanking me for taking part in the research into the Genetic Causes of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and giving me a long follow up questionnaire to fill in.
Now, I did have to think for a minute......too many hospital appointments in the last year......☺
It was addressed to the lady who lived here three years ago.....so now I feel guilty.....for opening her mail...though why it came here lord knows...and I suppose I'd better find her to pass it on.....
I did when MrG was alive but why bother now.
I have just opened a large envelope containing a nice letter from Addenbrooke's hospital thanking me for taking part in the research into the Genetic Causes of Primary Biliary Cirrhosis and giving me a long follow up questionnaire to fill in.
Now, I did have to think for a minute......too many hospital appointments in the last year......☺
It was addressed to the lady who lived here three years ago.....so now I feel guilty.....for opening her mail...though why it came here lord knows...and I suppose I'd better find her to pass it on.....
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.If I'm sat in the K/Diner when post arrives I usually hear it, so nip downstairs to pick it up, back upstairs, sort into two piles, open the lot, just draw the paper knife across them and take OH's through to Lounge, even if she's not in. It would not occur to me to read her post, if I need to know she'll tell me.
I also live alone, And like yourself, when my Husband was alive mail was opened by each of us. I now tend to open everything perhaps not even looking to see who it addressed to and sort out the relevant post and the circulars, my funniest experience was mail coming to me for the occupant of another house three doors away,this happened lots of times despite me re-posting it through my neighbours door and mentioning it to them, it still kept coming. One I did open by mistake, rang the company and told them that I was No. 1 my neighbour No.6 and could they adjust their records accordingly, and they told me that they have 100% proof that the person lives at my address, needless to say at that point I gave up.!! Just keep putting them back in post marked "not at this address".( could be he's keeping something from his missus !!)
I have to carefully check all mail before opening it as we get post for the people round the corner sometimes, we live on ******* Street, round the corner is ******* Court, there is also a street in the nearest city that is identical to ours just different postcode by one digit. We still get mail for the woman who lived here 11 years ago too.
I do this all the time.
my wrong letter rate is less than 1% - probably 0.1% - one in a thousand.
I tell all my tenants they cant open their predecessor's letters,
and a more mature one said : everyone does, you have to know when the bailiffs are coming.....
too true... too true.
my most interesting was around twenty years ago where an unknown solicitor was discussing with an unknown client the consequences of er well you know ... not telling the truth in court.
The secretary who had misdirected the letter rang up in a bit of a panic.....
my wrong letter rate is less than 1% - probably 0.1% - one in a thousand.
I tell all my tenants they cant open their predecessor's letters,
and a more mature one said : everyone does, you have to know when the bailiffs are coming.....
too true... too true.
my most interesting was around twenty years ago where an unknown solicitor was discussing with an unknown client the consequences of er well you know ... not telling the truth in court.
The secretary who had misdirected the letter rang up in a bit of a panic.....
We used to get a lot of mail for the previous inhabitants of our house and, as they'd left a forwarding address, I posted it on. On one occasion I was in a hurry and opened the mail without really thinking and one was a letter from a company threatening the bailiffs over unpaid debts! It was for the previous occupants but I was really worried the bailiffs would come for our stuff.