Unwanted post

DO0GLE

How do you stop unwanted post??
I bought a house some time ago which had previously been rented out and I keep getting letters for the previous tennants. I have no forwarding address and I always write "Return to sender" and stick it back in the post, but the letters keep coming. Does anyone know hoe to stop this

Oryx

DO0GLE wrote:

How do you stop unwanted post??
I bought a house some time ago which had previously been rented out and I keep getting letters for the previous tennants. I have no forwarding address and I always write "Return to sender" and stick it back in the post, but the letters keep coming. Does anyone know hoe to stop this

The most straightforward thing is to tell your postman. He/she might be able to help you out by simply not delivering the stuff. I dont know if theres an official procedure with an post to stop it.
If the post is often from the same company you could also open a letter and give the company concerned a call about it. (I did this once and didnt get any schtick from the sender (a solicitor) for opening someone elses mail)

Otherwise I think youre very conceintious to bother putting them back in the post, many would just bin them.:)

Redshift

An post are legally obliged to deliver the items to the address on the letter.
It's a pain I know but the only remedy is to get them stopped at source.

tbh

I've found putting "not known at this address" and putting it back into the postal system works a treat.

also, slightly related, about three weeks ago I put a sticker on my letterbox: "no leaflets, flyers or papers please" - not really expecting it to work, and you know what my junk mail has just dried up completely.

markpb

tbh wrote:

also, slightly related, about three weeks ago I put a sticker on my letterbox: "no leaflets, flyers or papers please" - not really expecting it to work, and you know what my junk mail has just dried up completely.

Is that because the election is over?

Oryx

tbh wrote:

I've found putting "not known at this address" and putting it back into the postal system works a treat.

also, slightly related, about three weeks ago I put a sticker on my letterbox: "no leaflets, flyers or papers please" - not really expecting it to work, and you know what my junk mail has just dried up completely.

Thats genius. *goes off to get sticker*

Now if i could just stop them being packed by the dozen in glossy magazines.....

tbh

it's mad! I honestly didn't think it would work but it really has.

As for the mags: pick them up by the spine and give them a little shake in the shops - that's what I do with the Sunday Times anyway!!

I noticed in the part of Oz I stayed in that those stickers were on almost everyones post box!!

Supercell

I used to return to sender, but in the end got pissed off getting mails from the same companies and now just bin them all. If the person who left cannot be bothered to change the address for his mail a few months after he's left the place then the bin is where they belong.