Um sorry HE/SHE doesnt live here!!
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
United States
March 10, 2010 10:23am CST
when you get mail for your address but for people you have no idea who they are what do you do? i have lived here for over 4 years and i have about a half a dozen people that are getting mail at this address and i am so sick of it! i have tried the "return to sender" and "not at this address" but apparently my mail man doesnt notice (in the past ive always had good mailmen that would realize and take note) and still delivers it! i was just recycling it (shredding it of course so if there was anything personal it wouldnt get stolen) and i cant put in a change of address with out knowing the new address! the only thing i have gotten to do right was when a non profit place sent a catalog to one of the people and it had a website and so i was able to tell them it was the wrong address so they wouldnt waste their money but im not gonna open peoples mail (thats against the law) and some of the stuff lately looks like government documents (but since i dont open them i dont know for sure or who to contact)
what do i do? when i put return to sender and etc does it even really go back to them?!?! i am wondering if some people are scamming some other people and having bills sent to this address or something but again cant/wont open the mail.. the only reason i shred it was because i recycle and figure its the nicest thing i could do since i literally have no way of hunting these people down.. i live in a good size city so not like i can look them up sigh..
what do you do? i mean its not my fault or responsibility but at the same time they are wasting the companies money and governments money on them getting so much mail here.. and none of these people were the previous owner either!
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@Lochoa (222)
• United States
10 Mar 10
I would just keep doing what you have been doing and if that still doesn't work I would go to the post office and see if that works. Maybe not every time you get a bill for someone else in the mail but every 2 weeks or so or how ever often this happens. Sounds like all the time so I'm picturing 15 pices of mail. LOL!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
its almost every day so yeah i would have to wait and collect or id end up living there lol
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
10 Mar 10
Hi, moonlitmagikchild. I know how you must feel! I am going through the same thing too. I have had other peoples mail come to my mailbox. My mailman here always delivers other peoples mail in my box. When I see that it is not mines, I will then put the mail in the drop box so that he can send it back to the post office. It does not make any sense if he sees mail that does not belong to us by our last names, then he should make sure that this mail does not get into our mailbox. I keep sending other peoples mail back, but he kept on giving me someone else's mail regardless. I plan to go to the post office soon about this too. I think that you should contact the post office supervisor and tell him/her about the mail that you keep on giving that is not yours. Make a note of the person's name so that you can get faster service. And I don't think that we could put in a change of address for other peoples mail. They would have to do this themselves. Because they would have to print and then sign their name on the postcard. I am sorry that this is happening to you and I hope that you can get it resolved very soon too. I know that my husband told me that a mailman told him to write a few initials on the person's mail. And then when the people in the post office sees it, they then know what to do with it. But, I don't have these initials at this time. This could send the mail back..
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
i just dont get how im getting NEW people recently and ive been here over 4 years now!
@recycledgoth (9894)
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11 Mar 10
I have lived at my house for seven years now and STILL keep getting mail for the previous owners. These days I just shred them and put them into the recycling bag but I used to mark them *return to sender* and post them back.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
yeah im afraid they arent being returned so after getting them and doing that over and over again i started recycling them lol
@ShepherdSpy (8544)
• Omagh, Northern Ireland
11 Mar 10
Having lived in a shared house while still a student,I've seen things like this happening before..in some cases,somebody may still have been in contact with the departed addressee,and the mail could have been passed on to them..in other cases,we'd have left it for the landlord to sort out..
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
unfortunately i own the house so no letting the landlord deal with it =(
@shalome (178)
• India
11 Mar 10
moonlightmagikchild,
I can understand your pain, some times it will get very much
irritating also, as far as my concern here i didn't receive
much mails in my box, per day hardly 2 or 3 only,
so i dno't know what type of suggestion would express
to you, sorry lol.
@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
i already get a ton of mail for me so getting a ton for other people is gonna make me buy a bigger mailbox!! lol
@rosegardens (3034)
• United States
11 Mar 10
I always have received mail for other people who no longer live at the address I do or did. I used to scribble does not live here on the envelopes, and once the mailman told me I could throw them away. So I began doing that.
Now I get mail for a few people who used to live here, so I just throw it away. It does bother me some, but at least at this address I do not have so much mail as I did at other places I lived.
You may be right, it might be a scam thing going on. Just toss it. Nothing you can do about it, unless you tell your mailman not to deliver any mail that does not belong to the people living there.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
my mailman is weird though.. i mean he decided to turn around in my YARD instead of my driveway one day and got stuck and had to be towed.. gave my mail to a house 100 numbers off.. the dude isnt right in the head so i dont want to tell him to not deliver anything but my last name because with my freaking luck he will think my name is something else lol
@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 10
hi moonlitmagikchild when I was living in el dorado gardens I got a bill from readers digest addressed to me at myapt but I had never sent for it or subscribed to them. I even called them on the phone and asked who signed the subscription, got this anwer a miss patricia mary hatley,I stopped them right there now just a minute that is not my name, my last name is Hatley but not miss anything I am married,and my middle initial is M but not for Mary, do you have anything else on this subscriptionoh yes theres an or Patricia mary Harding.I said okay let me tell you something that is not my writing I did not subscribe on line but someone n=once lived here I guess as we keep getting msPatricia Mary Hardings mail so I suggest you find out where ms Patricia M hardings lives and send her the bill. He kept saying, but but your name is on , and I said no she guessed at my name and tried to get me to pay for her subscription and she has probably been picking it up when it comes here I did not receive any copies so am not sending you any money. He kept talking so i just hung up on him.after all I did not subscribe to it nor receive any copies so what shoujls I pay for. they were sending it to someone who was receiving it somehow in our complex as I sure was not.
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@pheonixstar1982 (2307)
• United States
10 Mar 10
Now try and imagine that you just bought property and you are the first resident to build a house and live there and after about two years you start getting other peoples mail. The address is correct but no such person has ever lived there.
I dont really think there is anything you can do other than return to sender and stuff. And yeah for the most part it does get sent back. My question is how many times do i have to tell someone they have the wrong number before they finally get that my number no longer belongs to the peson they are calling.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
thats creepy.. and when i stop being a hotel ill let you know lol
@jesssp (2712)
• Canada
10 Mar 10
This happened to us the whole time we were at our old house (4 years). The man who lived there before us had passed away so whenever I got mail addressed to him I would write DECEASED on it and pop in into a mailbox. After a few years of doing this the same companies were still sending mail to this guy so I started writing STILL DECEASED on it. I bet the people who live there now still get his mail. I don't know what happens to mail like this but I guess the post office doesn't forward it back to the company.
In the new place we have been getting a little here and there. Most people change their address with the post office when they move but obviously some of the people living here didn't do that. We've been getting important stuff too, like government stuff and tax forms. All I can do is scribble DOES NOT RESIDE HERE on the envelopes and put them in the mail box. It's not my fault if this guy doesn't get his taxes in on time!
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
12 Mar 10
its crazy isnt it? when we first moved it was like 2 people only but as time has gone on there has been more and more people getting mail here
@kprofgames (3091)
• United States
11 Mar 10
I think if it's still happening after all this time that I would put - return to sender, person not at this address - and drop it in the blue mailbox instead of putting it in your mailbox. Mailmen can be different so you don't know if they forward it back or just do whatever with it.
Since it look like official documents, that is what I would do. That or take it to the post office and drop it in their out going mailbox. You never know who is using your mailbox Moon, I found that out.
So when no luck happened here putting it back in the mailbox, I put - return to sender, person not at this address - and took it all the way into the post office and dropped it there.
You can never be too careful on what you leave in your mailbox anymore. It's a pain in the backside, but at least you have yourself covered if anyone wants to come back on you for dealing with someone else's mail. Seriously, I've seen stranger things happen.
I don't trust the mailman. When I get that stuff, I take it to the post office and drop it in the blue box or put in the outgoing mail there.
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@moonlitmagikchild (22181)
• United States
14 Mar 10
thats a good idea.. take it to the post office to mail back than rely on my stupid mailman since who knows if he is sending it back.. i will have to try that
