Wrong name right address

[copippin]

Not sure if this is the right section for this but here goes.How do we stop mail being sent to our address but to someone who as far as we can tell has never lived here --at least during the last sixty years--.We have looked in the telephone directory in case there was a misprint or the like but no such person is listed .He may of course be X directory,but we know most people in this small market town and ther ain't no one of the name in question.

So far,most of the correspondence has been quite innocuous but we would hate it to escalate into something which gets out of control;all letters seem to have a fiancial slant to them.

Any advice would be gratefully received.Thanks

[Pinotage]

Write on envelope - "Return to sender - not known at this address" and put in postbox.

[copippin]

Thanks for your advice Pinotage,I'm fed up with doing that ,at least I don't pay any postage!

[joko]

contact your local sorting office and tell them, they may arrange for an alternate address to be found for these people

[Grunty]

The Mail Preference Service exists to allow you to opt out of junk mail (a similar service exists for junk telephone calls). I am not sure whether the person to whom the mail is addressed has to make the request, but I am sure they could advise you. Senders of junk mail have to check their mailing lists against the database to ensure that they are not sending it to an address that has been registered.

http://www.mpsonline.org.uk/mpsr/

[Murielmci]

Can I suggest you check your credit rating with Experion - you can do this online and costs �2.00. This will give you peace of mind that no one is doing something deliberate.

[gen2]

Yes, I'll reinforce what Murielmci says. I have heard that a person's credit rating can be adversely affected if someone else at the same address has a poor credit record. Be sure that whoever this person is, and whatever they are up to, doesn't affect you.

[pablo1318]

I don,t know if ths is of any use but I had the same problem with letters coming to my place and after trying everything suggested above I resorted to opening the letters. They were always about finance or money matters so I rang up the people who had sent these letters and made them aware that the name on the letter did no live at my address. and that I wanted them to write to me to confirm that they had done this.

the chap in question was desperate to get a new postal identity and had figured that if he bombarded the finance houses with requests the postman/person would deliver to him with my address on the letter. Mr Sneaky had some success. When the postie packed in the job and subsequently told me that the sorting office bundled everything together and it would usually get through.

this person was affecting the address not me the person. it stays with the address even if you move.

I have not had any more but immediate neighbours have .

[copippin]

Thanks Pablo,actually we did that on two occasions each time requesting the sender to confirm they had removed "that person,this address" from their database,it seems to have worked as the mail for this unknown person is now few and far between.It's a bit unnerving though isn't it!