Forwarding Mail

[parisdisneyfan]

Originally Posted by sam7

My daughter bought a house off an elderly couple who didn't redirect their mail, she was getting obviously important letters, bank, tax, pension. They didn't give her their new address, and to be honest were not the easiest people to buy for so she just returns to sender. However as she is very busy she virtually never goes past a post box, so often it is a couple of week or more till she is putting them in the post box.
The people I bought off did set up a redirection, but also gave me details of a neighbour who would forward/deliver any letters that slip though the system (the post office manually sort letters, so easy for them to slip through)

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The people we bought from are lovely, it was our buyer that was the pain. I think I will print off the form and drop it in when I go into town today as I will go past the retirement complex they have moved to. We have a post box outside our house so that isn't a problem. There is a lot of junk mail but also lots of what looks official and even a couple of parcels! It is Christmas I worry about as they were a Navy family and have lived lots of places so will probably get quite a few cards.

Luckily my dh works with one of our old neighbours so he has said he will bring in any stuff that PO misses, touch wood not been any so far aside from the first day I think! That assumes our buyer has passed it on, he may decide to hold my Damart catalogue to ransom

[djewkes]

When we moved our seller asked us to keep any mail and he would collect it (I had mine redirected) he didn’t leave a forwarding address... first couple of times he came quite regularly then it started mounting up... he wouldn’t pay for the redirection (despite winning £7.8 million on the lottery)... I eventually just started putting it back in the post with a “not at this address message”... the jewellery and cruise brochures and stock and share letters eventually stopped after about 10 years...

[macadoo]

Originally Posted by Mr Tom Morrow

All I did was wait until I had about a dozen letters then band them together with the rubber bands the Postmen leave all over the place!

On the top visible letter I wrote 'moved to ****'

I did this for about a year then everything had stopped.

Not hard and took about 5 mins of my time a week.

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This is what I would do. Really wouldn’t get wound up about it tbh.

[parisdisneyfan]

***Update***

Finally, almost 3 months after leaving this house the previous owners have set up a redirection so hopefully no more post for them. We have a post lady in a van and I saw her last week and she said she would sort it and looks like she has Although we have also had 2 Amazon deliveries for them, the first was in our letterbox the 2nd I refused to sign for!

[wifey]

Don’t send it on just return it to sender. You will do yourself a favour this way otherwise it just continues. As long as you do it for free they will let you. Just return to sender them.

[Bladelia]

I don't understand why people keep mentioning the post office, it has nothing to do with them, Royal Mail do the redirections, we are 2 separate companies, just closely linked by a long term business agreement. As an aside I always deliver readdressed mail.