An Post: mail sent to my address by mistake

Worztron

Hi.

What is the exact procedure if mail is delivered to your home by mistake. Did An Post make a change recently whereby the onus is on us to pay to post it back to them? Or can I just write 'posted to wrong address on envelope' and put it in nearby post box?

Also if someone's post box is sealed/closed. Is it the procedure that the post man/woman is supposed to put it in the next door neighbors letter box?

Thanks.

Guill

Open it, read it, bin it.

You're worried about the price of a stamp? Put it down as your good thing to do in 2011.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

What is the exact procedure if mail is delivered to your home by mistake. Did An Post make a change recently whereby the onus is on us to pay to post it back to them? Or can I just write 'posted to wrong address on envelope' and put it in nearby post box?

Also if someone's post box is sealed/closed. Is it the procedure that the post man/woman is supposed to put it in the next door neighbors letter box?

Thanks.

"Return to sender" drop in nearest mailbox. ow are they going to know which wrong address it showed up at?

JonathanAnon

When I was living in a shared house in Dublin, we got a letter through the door for a lad that lived in the place ages ago.. It was a request for a paternity test... No wonder he left so quickly..

Badgermonkey

Guill wrote: »

Open it, read it, bin it.

You forgot scan and publish on Boards.

OP just give it to postie if possible.

number10a

The recent changes by An Post only prevent you from re-addressing it and putting it back in the post without a new stamp. Makes no differenece to writing "undelivered" or "no longer at this address" on the envelope and putting it back in the post.

Or else you could open it. In the last place I lived, I got about €40 of Tesco Value Club vouchers by opening the last tenant's post. :D

KeithM89_old

Open the letter with the steam of a kettle so it doesn't tear, replace the letter with something else (a ransom demand, fake subscription to granny porn monthly, an envelope full of glitter etc..) and seal it back up and stamp it.

Tahuti

Could you not post it where it's supposed to go, assuming that's nearby?

biko

Don't open it. Just write No such Person or similar and stick it in a post box.
An post will send it to National Returned Letter Centre where they'll deal with it.

Dionysus

Worztron wrote: »

Hi.

What is the exact procedure if mail is delivered to your home by mistake. Did An Post make a change recently whereby the onus is on us to pay to post it back to them? Or can I just write 'posted to wrong address on envelope' and put it in nearby post box?

Also if someone's post box is sealed/closed. Is it the procedure that the post man/woman is supposed to put it in the next door neighbors letter box?

Thanks.

The latest on this is that somebody pointed out that An Post was in contravention of the Inland Post Warrant 1939 and consequently An Post admits ending free post redirection was illegal

Just put a forwarding address on it without a stamp - they'll still have to deliver it.

number10a

biko wrote: »

An post will send it to National Returned Letter Centre where they'll deal with it.

:pac::pac::pac: I love the sound of that. It makes it sound like a massive building (and for some reason it's also a little bit Harry Potter-ish). But knowing An Post, it's probably a room in a sorting office overflowing with dusty envelopes stuffed into the stolen Royal Mail postbags.

Captain_Generic

Just hoard it away like I do all mail, leaflets, local newspapers and lost children

Plazaman

biko wrote: »

Don't open it. Just write No such Person or similar and stick it in a post box.
An post will send it to National Returned Letter Centre where they'll deal with it.

Those fellas in the NRLC are some craic I tell ya. Terry, I still have that ferret you sent me, please collect it asap or it'll be returned by post.

emanresu

I think the OP is asking about mail delivered to the wrong address by the postman (possibly because there is no useable letter box at the correct nearby address).
If this is the case, it is not the same as forwarding mail for a family member who has moved away from home, or mail for a previous owner or tenant, so there should be no charge for returning the mail to the sender or An Post.

bleg

I got a birthday card in August with a tenner in it that said "Congratulations, you're 11!"

My birthday is in May...

I'm 23...

Free tenner!!!

Cookie_Monster

write "not to be found at this address" on it
and into the nearest post box

or just bin it.

sbsquarepants

The procedure around my house is to open it to see if it's worth keeping, then if it's not bin it!

Miaireland

Happens where I work all the time. We often get letters that the right address on them but are still delievered to the wrong place. I just write deliever to wrong place on them and either pop the back in the post or hand them to the postman.

pow wow

Just throw it back in the mail. They'll attempt delivery again hopefully to the right address if you put it back in a postbox.If you put no longer at this address or whatnot it gets sent back to the sender.

df1985

if they got in wrong, surely the correct address isnt that far away??

Worztron

Guill wrote: »

Open it, read it, bin it.

I'd never open someone else's mail.

Worztron

How about dealing with junk mail? Can I write "'Return to sender" on the envelope, of lets say mail offering me a credit card. They have the correct address but I don't have nor want a credit card.

mikemac

Open it and steal their identity to get credit cards which you then max out

They will have learned an expensive lesson

donvito99

We call it post in this country OP

ScumLord

Just bin it, I brought a letter back to the post office saying the guy doesn't live at this address when I moved into my new place and twice they sent it back to me.

GerardKeating

donvito99 wrote: »

We call it post in this country OP

Not all of "us" do.

lecker Hendl

We got a letter in the post years back that was meant for a neighbour a few doors down. The mother opened without looking at the name (she says) and there was a nice court summons. Don't know how she passed it on. I wouldn't have gone to the door with it.

Max Power1

Open it (blast it with p!ss) and send it back

Wetbench4

I would just drop it back to my local an post depot.

Mike 1972

When I lived in 9 Dirthole Street Ballygobackwards I used to regularly get mail for whoever lived in 9 Dirthole Street Bally$hitville

Used to chuck the letter back in the post with nice little hand drawn map on the back on the envelope showing where Ballygobackwards and Bally$hitville were.