registered post form previous owner

murfilein · 09-12-2019 1:34pm #1

we moved into our house 1-2 month ago, and we are receiving registered post from the previous owner multiple times a month. thats annoying.

the first 2 times, we collected was was delivered and dropped it off at the selling agencies office. but its just keeps going.

how do we handle that? its annoying. i was about to tell my wife to just throw the stupid letter away, but that doesnt feel right.

is there a way to let anpost know not to deliver letter to a certain person to our house?

Stark · 09-12-2019 1:35pm

Write "Not at this address" on the envelope and pop it in the post-box. It'll get sent to the return address and hopefully they'll know to update their records.

Weepsie · 09-12-2019 1:36pm

I mark the envelopes "not at this address" or similar and stick them back into postbox. They should be returned to sender then

emeldc · 09-12-2019 1:37pm

When you say 'registered post', are you signing for them.

Addle · 09-12-2019 1:38pm

Who is signing to accept the post?

WestWicklow1 · 09-12-2019 1:38pm

murfilein wrote: »

we are receiving registered post from the previous owner multiple times a month. thats annoying.

Why are the previous owners sending you registered post?

caff · 09-12-2019 1:39pm

Refuse to sign for it surely?

realdanbreen · 09-12-2019 1:40pm

Rarely does good news come by registered post.

JeffKenna · 09-12-2019 1:41pm

I wouldn't be signing for someone else's post.

Mundo7976 · 09-12-2019 1:41pm

Registered post needs to be signed for no?
In that case why would you be signing for someone elses post!
Other than that write not at this address and stick em back into a postbox.

antix80 · 09-12-2019 1:45pm

Absolute idiocy.

It's not addressed to you. Don't sign for it. If it's delivered anyway, give it back to the postman.

murfilein · 09-12-2019 2:07pm

WestWicklow1 wrote: »

Why are the previous owners sending you registered post?

welp, language. she isnt sending anything, but she is getting letter to our address because she owned the house before we bought it.

emeldc · 09-12-2019 2:17pm

murfilein wrote: »

welp, language. she isnt sending anything, but she is getting letter to our address because she owned the house before we bought it.

So It's just ordinary post, not registered. Bin it.

splinter65 · 09-12-2019 2:19pm

murfilein wrote: »

welp, language. she isnt sending anything, but she is getting letter to our address because she owned the house before we bought it.

Why are you signing for it?!?

jam_mac_jam · 09-12-2019 2:21pm

Don't sign for other people's post. That's the whole point of registered post.

fishy_fishy · 10-12-2019 12:55am

Had similar recently. Kept sending normal post back to sender. Incidentally, govt departments really seem to be the worst for updating records. Could clearly see on one letter the indents on the page inside where I'd crossed through address on the window of the previous envelope. They just took it out if the envelope I'd clearly marked "not at this address", put it in a fresh envelope and sent straight back to my place. Baffling. After a bit of a saga of sending it back I eventually wrote on it to look up the property price register - it had sold months previously, I am not who it's addressed to so stop sending someone else's post to me. Finally stopped getting that one letter.

Kept having to arrange parcels to get to them too (some were books so fit through letterbox, others were left with neighbour etc) because yerwan kept accidentally sending her online shopping here. Then happened to be home when a courier tried to deliver a fairly large package... refused to accept it. If it had been only a couple of months since moving I'd have accepted, but it was closer to 9 months since they moved. That was the last time anything for her arrived.

It's a weirdly disproportionately annoying thing to keep coming home to someone else's post. Especially when it's obvious that it's just down to the previous occupant not being arsed sorting their shi.t out.

Steve · 10-12-2019 1:14am

In my house 16 years and still get letters for the previous owner. For the first year or two I tried to re-direct / return them, now I just bin them.

SozBbz · 10-12-2019 11:22am

fishy_fishy wrote: »

Kept having to arrange parcels to get to them too (some were books so fit through letterbox, others were left with neighbour etc) because yerwan kept accidentally sending her online shopping here. Then happened to be home when a courier tried to deliver a fairly large package... refused to accept it. If it had been only a couple of months since moving I'd have accepted, but it was closer to 9 months since they moved. That was the last time anything for her arrived.

You'd wonder how some people tie their own shoelaces

We've just moved recently and I'm proactivly trying to redirect as much as I can so that when the new people move into our apt (we still have keys for now) that they won't be bothered.

That said, we lived in that apt for 4.5 years and were still getting post for all sorts of randomers (the property had been a rental before we bought it) and I was amazed by how many different names we saw.

Stark · 10-12-2019 11:27am

It can be easier said than done. I've had to move a few times in the past few years (thank you, Dublin's ****ty rental market) and I still have post going to old addresses despite my best attempts not to. For certain organisations, it's just difficult to get them to update your details properly, they always seem to have the old addresses in some file somewhere.

Most recently, dropped car in for service and they were unable to contact me during the day as despite me giving my current phone number to make the booking and leaving my phone number with them that morning, they still managed to find an old phone number for me on file and tried to contact me using that.

L1011 · 10-12-2019 11:29am

I just have one regular sender of a post for a former resident, a crap finance house that they presumably owe money to and must be thinking the not at this address returns are spoofs. Luckily there's zero chance of name confusion with me if they ever sign up to the CCR

Eventually everyone else too notice of not known / gone away / deceased (former owner) stickers going on, luckily enough just about the time I ran out of the official return stickers the post office probably shouldn't have given me!

Effects · 10-12-2019 11:39am

jam_mac_jam wrote: »

Don't sign for other people's post. That's the whole point of registered post.

No, the point of registered post is to have a record of delivery.

Sleeper12 · 10-12-2019 11:46am

Registered post has to be signed for. Stop signing for it and send the postman away with it. Don't accept it at all.

DelBoy Trotter · 10-12-2019 1:19pm

Sleeper12 wrote: »

Registered post has to be signed for. Stop signing for it and send the postman away with it. Don't accept it at all.

Maybe read the thread before posting. The OP has already confirmed it isn't actually registered post, it's standard post

antix80 · 10-12-2019 1:35pm

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

Maybe read the thread before posting. The OP has already confirmed it isn't actually registered post, it's standard post

"we moved into our house 1-2 month ago, and we are receiving registered post from the previous owner"

No one has time to scrutinise the entire thread. If the opening post is wrong it should be edited or thread deleted.

DelBoy Trotter · 10-12-2019 1:39pm

antix80 wrote: »

"we moved into our house 1-2 month ago, and we are receiving registered post from the previous owner"

No one has time to scrutinise the entire thread. If the opening post is wrong it should be edited or thread deleted.

There have been 24 posts in the thread in total. Hardly takes a huge amount of time to flick through it before responding. If your time is that precious, I'd encourage you to get off Boards and do more of those important things in your life

antix80 · 10-12-2019 1:44pm

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

There have been 24 posts in the thread in total. Hardly takes a huge amount of time to flick through it before responding. If your time is that precious, I'd encourage you to get off Boards and do more of those important things in your life

Says the guy lecturing people on boards :rolleyes:

Ya know, I just read the thread.. the op didn't say it was standard post! Where did you pull that from? Boards.ie needs a feature to downvote posts like yours.

JeffKenna · 10-12-2019 2:14pm

DelBoy Trotter wrote: »

Maybe read the thread before posting. The OP has already confirmed it isn't actually registered post, it's standard post

No the OP hasn't confirmed this at all.

WestWicklow1 · 10-12-2019 2:59pm

murfilein wrote: »

we moved into our house 1-2 month ago, and we are receiving registered post from the previous owner multiple times a month.

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antix80 · 10-12-2019 3:12pm

WestWicklow1 wrote: »

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murfilein wrote: »

she isnt sending anything, but she is getting letter to our address because she owned the house before we bought it.

charlietheminxx · 10-12-2019 3:22pm

It is a bloody nightmare to get companies to send your stuff to a new address. I moved recently, and left a few large stamped & addressed envelopes for my new house because I knew there might be a couple of stragglers.

I had to update my car insurance for our new address. The company charged me an additional premium because my new address has a higher risk factor and then a week later sent my updated policy document to my old address.

It's maddening, so I have some sympathy for the old tenants but it's not really your problem OP so just mark them as "not at this address" and throw them in a postbox.

Sleeper12 · 10-12-2019 6:31pm

DelBoy Trotter wrote:

Maybe read the thread before posting. The OP has already confirmed it isn't actually registered post, it's standard post

DelBoy Trotter wrote:

There have been 24 posts in the thread in total. Hardly takes a huge amount of time to flick through it before responding. If your time is that precious, I'd encourage you to get off Boards and do more of those important things in your life

Are you moderator wannabe or are you auditioning for the job?

31 posts in & all you have done is point out our failures. Have you anything to actually contribute to the thread? Anything at all???

L1011 · 10-12-2019 6:43pm

Can everyone stop the semantics arguments please.

Donald Trump · 10-12-2019 7:20pm

fishy_fishy wrote: »

Kept having to arrange parcels to get to them too (some were books so fit through letterbox, others were left with neighbour etc) because yerwan kept accidentally sending her online shopping here. Then happened to be home when a courier tried to deliver a fairly large package... refused to accept it. If it had been only a couple of months since moving I'd have accepted, but it was closer to 9 months since they moved. That was the last time anything for her arrived.

Well you'd hardly expect her to use her own address when buying online with the stolen credit card number now would you?

WestWicklow1 · 10-12-2019 8:14pm

Very entertaining thread...... aul wans the whole lot of ye

:D:D:D

The_Conductor · 10-12-2019 8:35pm

If its registered and has to be signed for- refuse to sign for it.
If its regular post- gather it up and every week or 10 days- write 'not known at this address' and dump them in the nearest post box you can find.
Its not rocket science- and you don't have to be malicious.
Its nuts taking registered post and dropping it into the estate agent who sold the property- utter and total nuts.

Addle · 10-12-2019 8:38pm

Accepting registered post on behalf of someone else could be dangerous for the addressee.
Signing for post and then complaining about it is just stupid.

registered post form previous owner

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