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Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that r

Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.

jstanley 9y ago
But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.
- philipov 9y ago
  I frequently receive mail for people who haven't lived in this house for a decade, so I challenge your assumption. The postman isn't paid enough to care.
- alexfoo 9y ago
  I get at least 2 or 3 letters a week for previous residents of my house (and I've owned it for 10 years). Probably 1 or 2 packages a year too. (Yes I follow the recommended process for dealing with it.) UK: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5156/~/ive-received-someone-elses-mail https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/... " It's my address but someone else's name We deliver to addresses rather than names so our advice here would be to put a cross through the address and write on the item 'Not known at this address' or, 'No longer lives here' and post the item at your convenience - you won't need to apply any postage. Where applicable we will return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records. "
  - Nursie 9y ago
    And even then it won't all stop. The direct marketers don't care and some financial companies are bound by law to keep sending the letters if they don't have an updated address for the old residents. After we started doing this we got a couple of letters from the likes of Zurich Ltd addressed "to the householder" explaining that they'd love to stop sending us junk, but they have to, and if we could give them any details about where the old residents might be, that would be great. I wished them luck and told them the best we knew they'd moved abroad, permanently, possibly to Turkey.
  - escapologybb 9y ago
    Mildly off topic but I was a postman for a few years and the advice you linked to will get you almost all the way. Next time you get a letter that isn't for you put a big circle around the label, then put a cross through the circle. Don't write anything on it, but next time you see the postman give it directly to him/her/them and ask them to put it in with the blind letters. That will work. Probably.
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- jackpeterfletch 9y ago
  Why? What if I have a guest coming over. Also postman doesnt give a fuck.
herbst 9y ago
Interesting. My experience is from central europe, or essentially the 3 german countries where people are heavily advised to use their real names.
- xya3453 9y ago
  In the countries you mention, individual apartments don't have numbers, but are rather identified entirely by the name(s) of the occupants. If the parcel is not addressed with your name you won't receive it.

Rarely in the UK people pay for a redirect. Other than that the Postal Seervice don't really know who lives where. If your getting post for an ex tenant, that redirect isn't in place.

jstanley 9y ago

But the postman who delivers the post will notice that he's delivering the odd bit of post for somebody who doesn't live there.

philipov 9y ago
I frequently receive mail for people who haven't lived in this house for a decade, so I challenge your assumption. The postman isn't paid enough to care.
alexfoo 9y ago
I get at least 2 or 3 letters a week for previous residents of my house (and I've owned it for 10 years). Probably 1 or 2 packages a year too. (Yes I follow the recommended process for dealing with it.) UK: https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5156/~/ive-received-someone-elses-mail https://personal.help.royalmail.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/... " It's my address but someone else's name We deliver to addresses rather than names so our advice here would be to put a cross through the address and write on the item 'Not known at this address' or, 'No longer lives here' and post the item at your convenience - you won't need to apply any postage. Where applicable we will return the item to the sender hopefully allowing them to update their records. "
- Nursie 9y ago
  And even then it won't all stop. The direct marketers don't care and some financial companies are bound by law to keep sending the letters if they don't have an updated address for the old residents. After we started doing this we got a couple of letters from the likes of Zurich Ltd addressed "to the householder" explaining that they'd love to stop sending us junk, but they have to, and if we could give them any details about where the old residents might be, that would be great. I wished them luck and told them the best we knew they'd moved abroad, permanently, possibly to Turkey.
- escapologybb 9y ago
  Mildly off topic but I was a postman for a few years and the advice you linked to will get you almost all the way. Next time you get a letter that isn't for you put a big circle around the label, then put a cross through the circle. Don't write anything on it, but next time you see the postman give it directly to him/her/them and ask them to put it in with the blind letters. That will work. Probably.
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jackpeterfletch 9y ago
Why? What if I have a guest coming over. Also postman doesnt give a fuck.

herbst 9y ago

Interesting. My experience is from central europe, or essentially the 3 german countries where people are heavily advised to use their real names.

xya3453 9y ago
In the countries you mention, individual apartments don't have numbers, but are rather identified entirely by the name(s) of the occupants. If the parcel is not addressed with your name you won't receive it.