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An Post: mail sent to my address by mistake

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  • #32
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭Worztron


    feelingstressed wrote: »
    Open it and steal their identity to get credit cards which you then max out

    They will have learned an expensive lesson

    "Steal their identity"? What on earth are you on about?

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #33
    Worztron
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    Wetbench4 wrote: »
    I would just drop it back to my local an post depot.

    But I'd still continue to get junk mail. There must be a way send junk mail back to those credit card companies and the like in a way that irks them so that they leave people alone.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #34
    slimjimmc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,786 ✭✭✭slimjimmc


    Worztron wrote: »
    "Steal their identity"? What on earth are you on about?

    It's not that difficult. Things like utility bills are often accepted forms of identification, so you can use that to open other accounts thereby legitimising your forged identity. Once you have sufficient legitimate id to prove your fake identity you can obtain bank loans, dodge speeding/parking fines, all in the name of someone else, but you still have your own true id to deny any link.


  • #35
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    You could try returning it with 'not known at this address' but tbh it's really not worth the hassle. Just use it to start a fire or something.


  • #36
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭Worztron


    slimjimmc wrote: »
    It's not that difficult. Things like utility bills are often accepted forms of identification, so you can use that to open other accounts thereby legitimising your forged identity. Once you have sufficient legitimate id to prove your fake identity you can obtain bank loans, dodge speeding/parking fines, all in the name of someone else, but you still have your own true id to deny any link.

    Anyone who steals someone's identity should be locked up for a very long time. They are utter scum.

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



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  • #37
    Ruu_Old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Whatever post you get is fair game. :P


  • #38
    Tar.Aldarion
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    give it to the post man


  • #39
    Worztron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,888 ✭✭✭Worztron


    pow wow wrote: »
    You could try returning it with 'not known at this address' but tbh it's really not worth the hassle. Just use it to start a fire or something.

    But I hate waste and the extra litter it creates. Since these companies post people stuff they don't want; perhaps it is best to shoot the junk right back at them. There should be some sort of agency where you can say that you are getting junk mail continuously from xyz_corp. and want them to stop it. Then that agency would contact xyz_corp and instruct them to stop sending me mail (just a thought).

    Mitch Hedberg: "Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something."



  • #40
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,276 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    We got a letter in the shop addressed to a former manager (now touring some foreign land never to be seen again) but none of us had the wherewithall to open it because we thought it was a summons for theft :P

    Then we realised he'd have to sign for that so we just binned it. Nothing exciting.


  • #41
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,018 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    Its actually highly illegal to open mail addressed to someone else.

    Last place I lived in though the amount of post addressed to previous occupants was unreal as was the length of time it continued for. Putting "not known at this address" on them and chucking them back in the post did little to stem the flow (From the return addresses it was obvious that much of it was coming from the same few companies) given that much of it was from banks, credit card companies and wotnot I suspect the people in question did a runner owing a load of money. Over the course of one week we got over 100 letters addressed to them and four years after we moved in it was still coming.


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  • #42
    alejandro1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭alejandro1977


    Worztron wrote: »
    But I hate waste and the extra litter it creates. Since these companies post people stuff they don't want; perhaps it is best to shoot the junk right back at them. .

    yep, best to send it back. Too much junk increases the chance you you missing some important piece of post. Even if it is junk they won't want to waste the stamps - in my experience 'Return to Sender' works - eventually


  • #43
    pow wow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,288 ✭✭✭pow wow


    Worztron wrote: »
    But I hate waste and the extra litter it creates. Since these companies post people stuff they don't want; perhaps it is best to shoot the junk right back at them. There should be some sort of agency where you can say that you are getting junk mail continuously from xyz_corp. and want them to stop it. Then that agency would contact xyz_corp and instruct them to stop sending me mail (just a thought).

    Think of all the extra energy needed to process your return though, and don't assume the junk-sender would actually take any notice. Does ROI not have anything similar to these people?. I still get junk from a charity I donated to whilst I lived in the US - 4 years later. After the post office forwarded their junk I sent them a letter saying I'd emigrated and to stop...instead they just started sending it here.


  • #44
    alejandro1977
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 505 ✭✭✭alejandro1977


    pow wow wrote: »
    Think of all the extra energy needed to process your return though, and don't assume the junk-sender would actually take any notice. Does ROI not have anything similar to these people?. I still get junk from a charity I donated to whilst I lived in the US - 4 years later. After the post office forwarded their junk I sent them a letter saying I'd emigrated and to stop...instead they just started sending it here.

    Tape a brick to it and send it to them. They have to pay the postage. They'll pay attention then; I've head about people doing this for Time and Readers Digest, not sure if true...


  • #45
    Dionysus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,420 ✭✭✭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.
    number10a wrote: »
    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.

    They don't actually. As I posted elsewhere in Afterhours in the past two months, An Post went back on the proposal in question because somebody pointed out that a law in the 1930s makes it illegal for An Post to charge somebody for putting a forwarding address. The link in that post of mine was to an article in The Irish Times.

    In other words: put a forwarding address or return to sender on the mail. It will cost you nothing and An Post will have to deliver it.


    /end thread.


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