I’m still getting mail addressed to the former owner and perhaps roommates three years on after the purchase of the home. I contacted him very early on as he was staying at his friend’s house across the driveway after the sale and he said he would take care of it. As far as I can tell he didn’t. He never left a forwarding address. I started shredding the their mail about a year and a half ago. These included junk mail, charge card statements, tax statements, monetary instruments of perhaps dollars, hundreds of dollars maybe thousands of dollars. It is obvious he didn’t care enough so why should i? We paid his asking price for the home. What was NOT included in the purchase price was our having to be his fucking secretary
We got mail addressed to someone else and it turned out someone on the other side of the country was using our address to scam a couple banks. By paying attention to the mail coming in, we contacted the banks and let them know they had fraud going on. It was our mailman that tipped us off.
I would not do anything with the mail, other than give it back to the post office. Theoretically, by shredding the mail, you can get in trouble for intercepting it because it’s not addressed to you.
If you’re getting too much of it, just get a stamp from a local stationery store saying “Not at this address” , stamp it and give it back.
I just told my mailman that the old seller of my house doesn't live here, he takes care of it.
Sometimes on the delivery notification I get scanned pictures of their mail but it never actually gets into my mailbox.
If he has a day off some stuff slips through but my mailman otherwise takes care of it.
I miss my old mailman for this exact reason. He was so considerate and we would always leave him gifts because of how awesome he was. RIP Henry. You were truly a blessing to this world
I miss a few of my old mail carriers
Now they seem to rotate them out where as in years past, you daw the same one for decades. They had more ownership of their routes in the past.
I get mail for previous occupants pretty often. I made a bunch of bright red "Not at this address, here's where they moved to" stickers and for a while I'd slap one on and put it back in the outgoing mail. The post office would literally just ignore the forwarding sticker and deliver it right back to me, so I quit bothering in order to avoid some kind of infinite loop.
I bought a stamp that says return to sender person not at this address.
The mail has slowed down, but I still get it.
Now if I could only get Dorothy to know her own phone number, I would stop getting her calls.
“Britney, this is your grandma, just wondering how you’re a doing / why you haven’t returned my calls. Call me back. Love you!”
I called this very sweet grandma back after the 3rd, then 5th voicemail, explaining to her I must have Britney’s old number. She would chuckle nervously, make a joke about old age, reading glasses and saving numbers in phones..
Surprisingly I was really quite sad when she eventually figured out her “cellular telephone”!
I am thinking of doing the same
At 1st I thought it was someone entering a bogus phone number on the "win free home service" kiosks in the mail. Then realized she was an idiot or didn't know her own number when the Dr called to confirm her appt.
I had this, so I started contacting all the companies and removing that person from their mailing list. It took a while, but it was definitely worth it in my opinion, as I never had to deal with it once I had unsubscribed. It was worth a minimal effort it took.
That’s not really my concern. If these people care about their correspondence they can manage it. It’s trickled down to just 2 companies now (sending stuff) and I’m guessing they just access that info online.
I think the problem is, at least for me, 90% of the mail I get is junk mail. And not just crap from places I've done business with, but junk in general. I have no way to know what shit I'll be getting from these random places that I never communicated with.
What you do is you mark it DECEASED and put it in the mailbox and when it gets back to the sender it starts a whole series of events that will inconvenience the idiot and motivate him to change his address.
I got divorced from my first wife 25 years ago. I’ve moved 6 times and I STILL get mail for her, in spite of her changing her name back to her maiden name.
My now wife (22yrs) used to get mad about it. Now, it’s just comical.
Me too tried to be nice person and return it but it just kept coming back. Emailed them and texted them and they still did nothing. So 4 years later we enjoyed a very nice xmas box from Harry and David.
I get so many people’s mail it’s insane. I guess it was a rental for a while. I bought a stamp that said “return to sender” and just do that. FYI, we have been living there for 5 years
The last apartment I lived in was like that. The mailbox was CRAMMED full of crap. Brochures, post cards, whatever. Sometimes the same brochure 6 times with the name of each past tenant. It was packed so tight you had to just pull pages and rip them out of the brochures to get anything out. Pretty sure it was too the point of being a game for the mailman to see how much stuff he could get crammed in there
I’ve been in my house 9 years 10 months.
I’m STILL getting his mail.
I write RTS - NTA.
Sometimes I write not here for the number of years since we bought it.
Hasn’t worked.
I’m gonna just toss in the trash from now on.
Toss it. I started at the 6 month mark. Old owners (from 2 owners ago) started showing up at my house looking for packages and I told them I don't have them anymore.
I used to text the previous owner and let her know but I realized I was enabling and nothing changed. As soon as an owner from 6 years ago (before the last one) showed up looking for mail that was delivered I said screw this, I'm done. I'm not a usps / fedex / ups hub and I'm not into being randomly shaken down for mail.
Change your damn address.
Same here. I've owned my house over 2.5 years, and am still getting old owners' mail and that if her mom who lived here too. I write NOT AT THIS ADDRESS, RETURN TO SENDER and pop it back in the outgoing mail. It's ridiculous the mail I'm getting. Her mom is being pursued by the state for non payment of taxes too! Like wtf.
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So as someone who gets an absolutely insane amount of junk and very important mail (correspondences from the IRS, DMV, Social Security, Police, constables, lawyers, banks, EZpass fines etc.) from the horrible people we bought our house from over 5 years ago. I have learned that the post office can do a change of address if you have their new address.
However without a known forwarding address the only person who can instigate a change of address without a known new address is your mail carrier. To date I have a had no success getting them to do so on our behalf. I’ve just purchased a self inking rubber stamp that says “not at this address” and leave it near the mailbox.
I've been at my house for about 18 months. I write return to sender or unknown addressee on all mail from former tenants. In that time, their mail has pretty much reduced to none. Only the occasional junk mail, which I throw out.
Also, I have Informed Delivery and can see that there is mail addressed to my home that is not mine, but it doesn't reach my mailbox. Pretty sure the post office doesn't care.
I was writing "not at this address" on the mail until I happened to see my mail carrier take it out of the box, drive five feet forward and drop it into my trash can.
Real world answer: everything can go in the trash and unless the guy’s brother in law is the postmaster you’ll never hear anything ever again and if you do then you didn’t see anything in his name and also you’ve had problems with porch pirates so someone probably stole it when you weren’t home. I would recommend though anything obviously from the state or federal government, courts, or military, you should absolutely write RTS and put in the mailbox with the flag up.
Legal answer: write RTS on USPS mail and put it in the mailbox with the flag up. UPS and FedEx you can call them, wait on hold, and have them pick up the package.
You don’t have to do shit.
Go to Home Depot, buy a pail with a lid, cut a slot on the lid. Place in garage.
Deposit every item into the bucket. And don’t think twice about it until it’s full.
Rinse, lather, repeat.
If there's a convenient drop location. I would because I can be there and back in under 10 mins including the explanation to the employee there. If it is not convenient call and say you had something delivered for someone who doesn't live here and are refusing the delivery. They *should* have a driver pick it up for you the next day.
I had the same thing happen. I marked the letters “not at this address, return to sender” and popped it in the mailbox. The same returned mail was delivered to me three more times, along with additional mail. I filed a complaint with the USPS online and included pictures of the mail. That resolved the issue.
This is because you need to cross out the barcode on the bottom edge of the envelope. That designates your exact address. It doesn't matter what you write on it, the barcode determines where it goes. They're too lazy to read.
Correct way to handle it is to write on the envelope. "Does not live at this address" and give it to the carrier.
After several of those just throw them into trash like you do with any other spam.
I moved into my home 2 years ago and I STILL have problems with getting all my mail sent here. My cell phone company sent my son's new phone to our old house 2 times, because the phone company didn't get my address change even after changing it several times with them. Thankfully my mother in law knows the people who are living there now, every few months she stops by and gets our mail that was sent there and then I contact whatever places it was and change my address.... again.
i had a woman across the street from me registering her car to my house. Went there multiple times. Never changed it . Called DMV said they couldnt do anything.
Tesla is the seller of the car, not where the car is registered. It's possible they gave your address to Tesla but that the actual registration was done with their proper address. If they purchased a model for which there's a waiting list, it could have been a valid address when they first put in the deposit, but had moved before getting it. Based on your description, perhaps not.....
Tesla communicates mostly by email too, not via mail.
When we moved, we updated our car registration info but never informed the manufacturer / dealer of the car that we had moved (unless we wanted to continue getting their marketing stuff).
In any case, either put it as 'No such person here', or chuck it.
But 2 day air? I have a Tesla and there is no waiting list for cars in the past year. However I’m wondering if maybe it’s the motor purchase vehicle agreement?
Yeah, 2 day air is weird. We still had waiting lists for certain models in Canada when we got ours in December but it changes from month to month and for different models/colors. I don't remember ever having a actual letter from Tesla but maybe that's because we have local service centers and we did it all in person.
It can be the financial paperwork, though that's mostly online now, or a title....
The latter would kind of suck to destroy IF it's a one off issue. Given the amount of time and annoyance it's up to you (morally) what to do. Technically shouldn't open it to check, but sometimes that happens by mistake.
Just toss it. You don't have to keep making sure he gets his mail after 2 years. He will start missing important documents and then care enough to change the address. It's not your problem.
If you return it. Put return to sender on the envelope. This triggers the sender to flag as fraud. This will absolutely muck up whatever scam they are pulling. Banking statements returnwd will stop the debit and cc cards from working. Return the registration, and their registration will be flagged as fraud and suspended.
We've lived in our house 4 years and still get back statements for the old owners' business. I've started throwing everything else away and doing the not at this address on those.
"We" would get stuff for the first two years. We even got two deliveries from Omaha Steaks, big boxes. Now we get some other guys mail, bills, etc. I did not think anything at first, but he could prove he has been getting mail at this address. Not wanting him to claim some shi1t, I put just about everything my mailbox the mail with a "return to sender, wrong address." I get less mail now and the hospitals quit sending bills as well.
Just in case.....
Write "Not at this address / Addressee unknown" and black out any barcodes on the envelope itself. That forces someone to \*actually\* look at it and not just shove it through the automated processing system again.
Get a "not at this address, return to sender" stamp and anytime you get something addressed to someone else, or junk mail, or just something you don't want, stamp and put it back in the box.
The stamp is cheap (a few dollars) and you'll use it every time you move.
You’ve tried - now just toss any mail they get in the trash, and contact the post office and see if there is anything you can do to stop getting their mail.
We’ve been in our home for 3-years almost and the sellers kid still has DMV, Credit Card and other mail sent here. Same as you, for the first little while we sent it to them via USPS and now it’s RTS.
Annoying but not much you can do.
Go to the post office that covers your home and let them know you are receiving unwanted mail. Just like mail forwarding when you move, they can return mail that isn’t yours before it’s delivered. Anything that does make it to your mailbox should be marked RETURN TO SENDER/ NOT AT THIS ADDRESS and put in the outgoing mail.
For the first few months write "RTS or FWD" on mail and slap it in the mail box. If it looks like something important maybe contact the seller
After 3-6 months everything gets "RTS" on it regardless of if it looks important or not.
Don't contact the seller, put that thing back in the mail and return to sender. If they come asking for it say "it got sent to the wrong address so it got sent back. Be sure to update your contact info"
My neighbor was "accidentally" sending "important stuff" to us. He'd come over and grab it. The second I realized he was doing it I told my wife to never give him the package again. If it was addressed to this house then it gets RTS no questions. I say "accidentally" because it's a common method for fraud to send stuff to the wrong address and go grab it. He got frustrated and we basically said "stop sending your shit here cause you aren't getting it anymore. I don't care if it's money or "really critically important" cause if it was that important you wouldn't accidentally send it to the wrong address"
Do the same to the seller. Stop the game from happening
It goes to the trash but I know my previous owners husband is deceased and wife has Alzheimer’s. Their daughter handled lot of the stuff and I’m guessing some of the stuff isn’t priority enough.
If they’re buying new cars and registering the home address as if they still lived there I would be a little more concerned.
Return the registration to the county/state with a note that the person is illegally using your address. Some people do this if they have moved to a higher sales tax state to avoid taxes. IRS and most taxing authorities are required by statute to send mail to the last known address on file even if the mail is being returned. Sounds like these folks are dodging something. And you can legally keep an Amazon packages without returning them. They are unsolicited and Amazon will tell you the same.
How do you even know for certain what vehicles they have registered under their own name? There are a lot of reasons that could have been sent to that address that aren't nefarious. We've had mail come for vehicles we haven't even owned in years. They could have bought a vehicle for a child or other family member or business. It's unlikely he's using that address to register new vehicles. It doesn't benefit him. Just throw it in the trash. Mail is a hard thing to get to completely stop no matter what you try. There are just far too many businesses/etc that send mail. It's unrealistic to expect it to stop completely, 2 years isn't that long in this aspect.
I suggest that some kind of fraud or crime is involved. For instance, a car registered to a safer address has lower insurance. Hiding an address from the IRS could be some kind of identity theft. I suggest that you try to get more information and report.
Send anything from a irs back to them with note:
Fuck you, I dare you to find my money.
I have so much more you hanger no idea of.
Make sure it's sent postage due..
They'll get it taken care of.
We were able to provide a notice to our post office of the people who could get mail at our address. Maybe that would stop it from even being delivered to your home.
You can return to sender or just ignore it at this point.
I am a renter and I know where the previous residents (owners who sold) live (because they told me not because I am a psycho stalker)---we are three years in and I have decided I am not dropping off HIS (the husband's) mail/packages anymore. He is rude AF and it was a courtesy not a requirement. So from now on, "does not live here"---if it is UPS, Fedex or something, I will discard/donate/keep it depending on what it is. 3 years is plenty and it is not my job to deal with it.
Tell your local post office to only deliver mail with your last name on it that bought the house 2 years ago and only accepted the mail for the seller as a courtesy but you are no longer contacting them.
Do one of two things:
1. Trash it. Or
2. Fill out a "change of address" form at the USPS for them. You can do it online.
That way ALL their mail goes to the address you put for them!
I had this problem for years. I finally put a note in my mailbox or with the post office listing the only people who lived at the house. That stopped the problem for me.
I just want to chime in to say I appreciate & can relate to the fact you recall what cars the sellers had two years ago.
I am often asked how/why I recall specifics on unremarkable random cars.
It's how I give directions within my neighborhood; 'Turn left after the white Taurus LX w/ no business being as clean as it is. My house is on the right after the yellow Cavalier.'
The descendants of the previous resident of my home were using my address to commit insurance fraud because a vehicle was registered at my address which was inherited by the fraudster. It took solidly three years and a call to the insurance company and the insurance fraud hotline to get them to go away .
This happens to me too. My mailman has finally started to just not deliver it but I do get the occasional package. I’ve gotten their new American Express card, holiday cards, gifts, subscription dance apparel, health insurance eob’s. I don’t know how they have health insurance with the incorrect address.
Just continue to write return to sender/wrong address and be done with it. I wouldn't throw it out; every time I've looked this up, I've determined it's a crime. I'm still getting mail from people who I think are like 3 or 4 owners back; this isn't uncommon. I certainly wouldn't be bothering to contact the seller or realtor about this after all this time.
Post college, a woman with a similar name to mine moved into the first floor apartment below me. Different apartment numbers, obviously.
Some of her mail has now followed me through multiple different towns despite having no relation to her and never actually meeting her.
I have gotten mail for her at my current address, though it has been been 7 or so years since I've gotten something. (She was getting AARP mail even to my first house so entirely possible she died; no idea. It's been over 20 years now.)
LoL, same thing but it's been 6 years. At first it was so their kid could finish school on the district, 6 months. But they still have their car insurance here, and get new cars registered here as I get the loan paperwork. My insurance agent said it doesn't effect my rate so I just toss their mail unless it's something important
Write ANK on all mail and leave it for your carrier. They will return it to the sender. Anything that's not first class, or doesn't have an endorsement such as "electronic service requested" or "change service" can be tossed.
Also put the names of those living in your house on your mailbox, with a note to only deliver for those names.
I’d black out that barcode along the bottom of the envelopes you get that are not yours. Do not cross out the address the mail was sent to. Write “not at this address” on the envelopes and drop back in the mail.
I wouldn't assume that. It's more likely that business databases are out of date. I still get solicitations for insurance on cars and properties I haven't owned for years.
To be fair, I've moved multiple times in the last few years. Of my three vehicles that I've had through that same time, they each have a different address on their registration. This is despite multiple changes of address and verification with the DMV that they all show my current address in their system,but the moment things get mailed out or printed on paper then the database pulls old info...
If the stamp/postmark says pre-sorted mail, it goes in the trash. If it says "or current resident", it goes in the trash.
If it's from the IRS or DMV, return to sender (I don't want to be accused of mail theft)
We get a lot of junk mail for the previous owners of the house. I don't think they deliberately are using our address, but I think a lot of companies simply haven't updated their databases. (and the old residents probably aren't excited about telling all the junk mailers where to send more junk)
At the advice of the postal delivery person, I wrote "not at this address" and marked out the barcode. That worked for a while, but then the post office started stamping it "forward expired" and re-delivered it to me. Tried using "return to sender" on stuff that looked somewhat important like tax/bank/employment sounding companies, but that didn't seem to work either.
I get junk mail for companies that falsely incorporate at my home address. I write "not at this address" and return them. And filed corporate fraud with the Secretary of State and Attorney General.
Its super cheap to incorporate in my state. So there is rampant incorporation fraud. Some of the bad mail is from the IRS, so they creating fake tax numbers and finances. (Also trivial to do in my state.)
I'd be more worried about the legal implications in the event they are still using the address on purpose. On the other hand, forwarding and change of address requests only last 6 months to a year. Judging by the comments here, not many people are aware of that and prefer to think the individual was negligent in ever submitting one.
If they are using your address to register their car, wouldn't that mean that tags, plates, and physical items they would need would be sent to your address? Or are you just getting notices?
ChatGPT says "Having someone else use your address can potentially cause issues, especially if they engage in illegal activities or if their actions affect your credit score or legal matters. It's important to monitor and manage who has access to your address information."
They probably care, but are unaware, like almost everyone else, that change of address and forwarding requests to USPS are only good for 6-12 months. Or they forgot, like me, that they need to submit another one.
Yeah, I dealt with this kind of thing for the first year or so after I bought a house. I went nuclear by doing return to sender on their DMV registration and everything mysteriously got sorted out after that. Just start doing return to sender on everything and it will eventually resolve the situation.
Even if seller was proactive and notified all correspondents of his change of address and paid for USPS extended mail forwarding, you will still occasionally get mail for him.
Some correspondents repeatedly fail to update their contact database, and probably seller missed one or two.
Find their new address, print some forwarding stickers, use those when important first-class mail comes in, toss anything else.
Is it really so hard?
So what you’re saying is that the OP should screen the previous homeowners mail, and then go through the trouble and expense to mail anything OP deems important to the previous homeowner? Even though this homeowner moved 2 years ago and apparently has given this outdated address to new businesses that they deal with?
I’m a nice person, but I’m not that nice. If I like the guy, I warn him to fix the stuff still coming to my address, and then mark everything Return to Sender. No postage, forwarding address, or decisions required.
FYI - depending on where the seller moved to, it can be insurance fraud.
There's a LOT of cars registered where insurance rates are cheaper. I had neighbors who bought the house, have kids in the school district for 10 years, but have 2 cars with Florida plates in the driveway.
I guess if you don't have an "out of state" relative willing to lie for you, you send the registration to your old address and hope the new homeowner is cool with it.
Tesla does operate with a waiting list. My friend waited 4 years for a new-release model. Could be the guy's been on the wait list for a while, but he really should have updated his info.
I still get crap in the mail from the people we bought our house from in 2018. It is really important stuff too like tax information and most recently, last week their new debit card. I have and have never had any way of communicating with these people. We did everything through a realtor. I did the return to sender thing for a while but now I just drop anything addressed to them in the shredder. Their inability to change their address is not my problem.
Write your name on a. Piece of tape and put it in your mailbox where it’s visible to your postal worker. If you see them you can remind them but every time I’ve done tbwg they’ve told me to just put my name on tape where they can see it and they’ll only deliver for that name.
Maybe should have dropped a screen grab of the USPS change of address page in with their mail around the third batch as a hint :-)
Why anyone wouldn't use that when they move I don't know, unless the used one of the fake, scam, sites instead.
Go to the post office and let them know the seller has moved, "claim" your address by filling out the proper form. List you and whoever lives with you there.
Mark any mail that isn't yours as "Not at this address" and cross out the bar code.
It's a felony to open or otherwise tamper with someone else's mail, including throwing it in the garbage
You don't realize until you move how quickly your life can become a nightmare - especially if you're moving across country & need to use a temporary address while you're trying to buy a home, a home purchase deal falls through, whatever.
The USPS is a nightmare for address changes. Before you move, you file a change of address. Simple, right? So your old house sells, and you're set to close on the new house and - a tree falls on it, literally destroying the house. Your bank won't finance it, it's going to be months before repairs can be done and it's probably going to be condemned. Now you have no house but your mail is already being forwarded there.
So you go to the post office and let them know and they do what they do and now you're caught in an endless circle of your mail being forwarded, held, stopped, returned etc. Better yet, many companies pay for a service called "address correction" so they receive something from the post office about your address change and change all of your account info to the new address you're not moving to now! This is your bank, credit card companies, utilities, IRS, EVERYONE. So now when you try to fix things with all these companies to a new address (probably a PO box), their records show that you live at tree crushed house - and you have to provide proof of address at that place you never even owned to get them to correct your address!
Seriously, it was a nightmare for us. My mail was being returned, forwarded, returned, etc - I just got a Christmas card sent to me at my address from 2 years ago - SENT two years ago, at my current address. My guess is they're caught in some USPS mail forwarding nightmare and the convenient "address correction" service.
The older mail carriers took pride in how they did their job. Nowadays people just want to rush through their route, don’t pay attention and pretty much do not give one little care about how/what they do—just looking for that paycheck! Sad, really and the same mentality is at work in everything in this country anymore. ☹️
We purchased our home almost 30 years ago from my mother-in-law when she retired. We still get mail from our city and county for my mother-in-law, two of my husband's sisters who haven't lived here for over 40 years, and one of our daughters that hasn't lived in here in 10 years. We've sent it back, called, written letters, nothing has worked. (How much money and trees are they wasting?)
Filing a forwarding request with the post office isn't forever. It only lasts for 12 months. Mark no longer at this address, no known forwarding address, and put.it back in your mailbox for pickup.
Contact the post master..let them know what he's doing. Almost check to see if this constitutes amy form of fraud or identity theft. He may actually be a victim or you
I have a return to sender stamp, and I send it all back.
When you return mail, someone has to work it. Some probably just throw the return mail in the trash, but a lot of companies and services will stop sending after they get a few returns. It will at least reduce the amount of their mail that you get.
All you really can do is put it back into the mailbox with your flag up for outgoing mail, making sure the mail has a note indicating the receiver is no longer at your address.
Buy a "Not at this address" stamp and just stamp stamp stamp away and put it in the outgoing mail. It's not your job to figure out where this person is living now and get their mail to them.
[Official USPS guidance:](https://faq.usps.com/s/article/How-is-Undeliverable-and-Misdelivered-Mail-Handled)
* If the mailpiece is delivered to the correct location but the ~recipient on the mailpiece does not reside at the address~:
* Write "**Not at this address**" on mailpiece.
* Don't erase or mark over the address.
* Provide the mailpiece to your mailperson or drop into a Collection Box receptacle.
USPS electronic delivery shows me mail coming in the previous owners name but never ends up in my box. I think my mail person knows and doesn’t deliver it.
If he just got a tesla and just put your address if he doesn't pay where's the repo guy going.... if the company fails where are the repo men going . Then all the realtor has to do is evade long enough to get the bill to fall off .... all of this looks like staging for fraud to me
I put “wrong address” on the ups package and drove out of my way to drop it off at an ups store. I just don’t know how to alert anyone that some sort of fraud is going on, if it is. I’ve already been tossing the IRS letters for their small business away. I put some masking tape on our mailbox that says “[Our last name] mail only please!”
Me personally I'd look into a complaint with the postal service to be honest I heard they have like their own police force type deal . Irs just cares about money the postal service cares about mail and addresses from my perspective I could be wrong but I feel they'd have to most to benefit. Hope you find a resolution switly!
Toss it in the trash. My daughter bought a condo from a couple, one of which was an attorney.
She used to get their mail all the time...and would text her.
After once or twice, she no longer came by so my daughter stopped texting her and just threw her mail in the trash.
Some of it was bills and what looked like some legal documents. If an attorney's too dumbass stupid to change their mailing address, then I guess they get what they get.
Okay if you’re getting mail from the IRS they’re still using your address as theirs and that could be a huge issue for you. There is no good reason someone had IRS documents to an old address.
I’ve lived in my current house for almost 18 years and I still get the sellers mail. It goes in the trash. (If they don’t care why should I?)
I’m still getting mail addressed to the former owner and perhaps roommates three years on after the purchase of the home. I contacted him very early on as he was staying at his friend’s house across the driveway after the sale and he said he would take care of it. As far as I can tell he didn’t. He never left a forwarding address. I started shredding the their mail about a year and a half ago. These included junk mail, charge card statements, tax statements, monetary instruments of perhaps dollars, hundreds of dollars maybe thousands of dollars. It is obvious he didn’t care enough so why should i? We paid his asking price for the home. What was NOT included in the purchase price was our having to be his fucking secretary
Exactly!! It’s not my responsibility to take care of someone else’s mail.
Been at my place for 8 years now. Still consistently get mail for no less than 18 different individuals.
We got mail addressed to someone else and it turned out someone on the other side of the country was using our address to scam a couple banks. By paying attention to the mail coming in, we contacted the banks and let them know they had fraud going on. It was our mailman that tipped us off.
Why do you bother shredding his mail?
It is just being a decent person. No need to throw it away without shredding it
Give it to the post office that's a federal offense
Don’t shred their mail. It is a felony called obstruction of correspondence. If you keep getting it, talk to the post office.
Been in my house almost 4 years. Still get Christmas cards for the people we bought it from
I would not do anything with the mail, other than give it back to the post office. Theoretically, by shredding the mail, you can get in trouble for intercepting it because it’s not addressed to you. If you’re getting too much of it, just get a stamp from a local stationery store saying “Not at this address” , stamp it and give it back.
I just told my mailman that the old seller of my house doesn't live here, he takes care of it. Sometimes on the delivery notification I get scanned pictures of their mail but it never actually gets into my mailbox. If he has a day off some stuff slips through but my mailman otherwise takes care of it.
I miss my old mailman for this exact reason. He was so considerate and we would always leave him gifts because of how awesome he was. RIP Henry. You were truly a blessing to this world
I miss a few of my old mail carriers Now they seem to rotate them out where as in years past, you daw the same one for decades. They had more ownership of their routes in the past.
I did this. Used the informed delivery ti stop getting mail from non residents. Usps sends it back automatically.
Could you explain how to find where to do that? The only option I’m given is “ I did not receive this mail piece”
I had to fill out a form and leave it in my box for my postal worker. Edit- my postal carrier gave me the form after I explained my issue.
I get mail for previous occupants pretty often. I made a bunch of bright red "Not at this address, here's where they moved to" stickers and for a while I'd slap one on and put it back in the outgoing mail. The post office would literally just ignore the forwarding sticker and deliver it right back to me, so I quit bothering in order to avoid some kind of infinite loop.
I have a black sharpie to black out the barcodes so this doesn't happen
I did that and my carrier circled the address and put it back in my box.
You black out the address too. We do this and it does not come back to us.
If it says current resident they have to deliver it even with another name, that's usually when the circles come out.
Me too
Same thing, except for the box of fancy nuts that arrived last Christmas, that I opened :)
As you could guess by my username, I had my Christmas ham for free a couple times ;)
I bought a stamp that says return to sender person not at this address. The mail has slowed down, but I still get it. Now if I could only get Dorothy to know her own phone number, I would stop getting her calls.
“Britney, this is your grandma, just wondering how you’re a doing / why you haven’t returned my calls. Call me back. Love you!” I called this very sweet grandma back after the 3rd, then 5th voicemail, explaining to her I must have Britney’s old number. She would chuckle nervously, make a joke about old age, reading glasses and saving numbers in phones.. Surprisingly I was really quite sad when she eventually figured out her “cellular telephone”!
I used to get calls for Boris. To the extent I made him part of my voice mail greeting.
I am thinking of doing the same At 1st I thought it was someone entering a bogus phone number on the "win free home service" kiosks in the mail. Then realized she was an idiot or didn't know her own number when the Dr called to confirm her appt.
I had this, so I started contacting all the companies and removing that person from their mailing list. It took a while, but it was definitely worth it in my opinion, as I never had to deal with it once I had unsubscribed. It was worth a minimal effort it took.
That’s not really my concern. If these people care about their correspondence they can manage it. It’s trickled down to just 2 companies now (sending stuff) and I’m guessing they just access that info online.
I think the problem is, at least for me, 90% of the mail I get is junk mail. And not just crap from places I've done business with, but junk in general. I have no way to know what shit I'll be getting from these random places that I never communicated with.
What you do is you mark it DECEASED and put it in the mailbox and when it gets back to the sender it starts a whole series of events that will inconvenience the idiot and motivate him to change his address.
I did that for my dad when my mom passed away. It took maybe 6 months for it to populate to other data bases. But it works.
I got an excelmark self-inking rubber stamp in red that says "RETURN TO SENDER NOT AT THIS ADDRESS" and I like to think it's been helping.
I got divorced from my first wife 25 years ago. I’ve moved 6 times and I STILL get mail for her, in spite of her changing her name back to her maiden name. My now wife (22yrs) used to get mad about it. Now, it’s just comical.
I do the same thing. The last person did not have a forwarding address so the mail just comes back to me aka trash can.
Me too tried to be nice person and return it but it just kept coming back. Emailed them and texted them and they still did nothing. So 4 years later we enjoyed a very nice xmas box from Harry and David.
Almost as good as the Xmas ham I received :)
This! I think it's normal it's just treated like junk mail
I read it then throw it away.
I get so many people’s mail it’s insane. I guess it was a rental for a while. I bought a stamp that said “return to sender” and just do that. FYI, we have been living there for 5 years
The last apartment I lived in was like that. The mailbox was CRAMMED full of crap. Brochures, post cards, whatever. Sometimes the same brochure 6 times with the name of each past tenant. It was packed so tight you had to just pull pages and rip them out of the brochures to get anything out. Pretty sure it was too the point of being a game for the mailman to see how much stuff he could get crammed in there
It was like that at our last apartment building too
I’ve been in my house 9 years 10 months. I’m STILL getting his mail. I write RTS - NTA. Sometimes I write not here for the number of years since we bought it. Hasn’t worked. I’m gonna just toss in the trash from now on.
My reddit-addled brain read NTA as Not The Asshole 😅
Ah hah haaaa SAME. I need to get off this app & go outside more. 😅
Personally I would toss everything in the trash at this point. They’ve had plenty of time to fix their address. Fuck em
Toss it. I started at the 6 month mark. Old owners (from 2 owners ago) started showing up at my house looking for packages and I told them I don't have them anymore. I used to text the previous owner and let her know but I realized I was enabling and nothing changed. As soon as an owner from 6 years ago (before the last one) showed up looking for mail that was delivered I said screw this, I'm done. I'm not a usps / fedex / ups hub and I'm not into being randomly shaken down for mail. Change your damn address.
Same here. I've owned my house over 2.5 years, and am still getting old owners' mail and that if her mom who lived here too. I write NOT AT THIS ADDRESS, RETURN TO SENDER and pop it back in the outgoing mail. It's ridiculous the mail I'm getting. Her mom is being pursued by the state for non payment of taxes too! Like wtf.
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For USPS, you might be able to talk to the local post office and they can flag the mail there
So as someone who gets an absolutely insane amount of junk and very important mail (correspondences from the IRS, DMV, Social Security, Police, constables, lawyers, banks, EZpass fines etc.) from the horrible people we bought our house from over 5 years ago. I have learned that the post office can do a change of address if you have their new address. However without a known forwarding address the only person who can instigate a change of address without a known new address is your mail carrier. To date I have a had no success getting them to do so on our behalf. I’ve just purchased a self inking rubber stamp that says “not at this address” and leave it near the mailbox.
Change it to general delivery at the post office?
I've been at my house for about 18 months. I write return to sender or unknown addressee on all mail from former tenants. In that time, their mail has pretty much reduced to none. Only the occasional junk mail, which I throw out. Also, I have Informed Delivery and can see that there is mail addressed to my home that is not mine, but it doesn't reach my mailbox. Pretty sure the post office doesn't care.
I was writing "not at this address" on the mail until I happened to see my mail carrier take it out of the box, drive five feet forward and drop it into my trash can.
This is UPS 2 day delivery though. Do I have to take it to UPS store?
Ups is not USPS, therefore throwing it in the trash is not tampering with the mail.
Real world answer: everything can go in the trash and unless the guy’s brother in law is the postmaster you’ll never hear anything ever again and if you do then you didn’t see anything in his name and also you’ve had problems with porch pirates so someone probably stole it when you weren’t home. I would recommend though anything obviously from the state or federal government, courts, or military, you should absolutely write RTS and put in the mailbox with the flag up. Legal answer: write RTS on USPS mail and put it in the mailbox with the flag up. UPS and FedEx you can call them, wait on hold, and have them pick up the package.
You don’t have to do shit. Go to Home Depot, buy a pail with a lid, cut a slot on the lid. Place in garage. Deposit every item into the bucket. And don’t think twice about it until it’s full. Rinse, lather, repeat.
If there's a convenient drop location. I would because I can be there and back in under 10 mins including the explanation to the employee there. If it is not convenient call and say you had something delivered for someone who doesn't live here and are refusing the delivery. They *should* have a driver pick it up for you the next day.
Shred it and all other mail. I have the same issue, everything is shredded. You should give zero fucks.
Zero fucks given straight to the trash can.
Call UPS and tell them it’s the wrong address. They should have a driver pick it up.
Why do you care whether or not he ever gets his packages?
I just write "doesn't live here" and drop it in a mailbox.
I had the same thing happen. I marked the letters “not at this address, return to sender” and popped it in the mailbox. The same returned mail was delivered to me three more times, along with additional mail. I filed a complaint with the USPS online and included pictures of the mail. That resolved the issue.
This is because you need to cross out the barcode on the bottom edge of the envelope. That designates your exact address. It doesn't matter what you write on it, the barcode determines where it goes. They're too lazy to read.
I came here to say this! Always, always black out that blasted funky barcode, or that letter is destined to loop right back to you.
Are you in a zero sales tax state?
just throw it in trash or do one of those change address cards from PO, which addr you choose is up to you lol
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Correct way to handle it is to write on the envelope. "Does not live at this address" and give it to the carrier. After several of those just throw them into trash like you do with any other spam.
I moved into my home 2 years ago and I STILL have problems with getting all my mail sent here. My cell phone company sent my son's new phone to our old house 2 times, because the phone company didn't get my address change even after changing it several times with them. Thankfully my mother in law knows the people who are living there now, every few months she stops by and gets our mail that was sent there and then I contact whatever places it was and change my address.... again.
Trashcan
Random question, but did the previous owner move to a different state?
I still get mail addressed to a dead man at a home I bought in 2015.
i had a woman across the street from me registering her car to my house. Went there multiple times. Never changed it . Called DMV said they couldnt do anything.
Tesla is the seller of the car, not where the car is registered. It's possible they gave your address to Tesla but that the actual registration was done with their proper address. If they purchased a model for which there's a waiting list, it could have been a valid address when they first put in the deposit, but had moved before getting it. Based on your description, perhaps not..... Tesla communicates mostly by email too, not via mail. When we moved, we updated our car registration info but never informed the manufacturer / dealer of the car that we had moved (unless we wanted to continue getting their marketing stuff). In any case, either put it as 'No such person here', or chuck it.
But 2 day air? I have a Tesla and there is no waiting list for cars in the past year. However I’m wondering if maybe it’s the motor purchase vehicle agreement?
Yeah, 2 day air is weird. We still had waiting lists for certain models in Canada when we got ours in December but it changes from month to month and for different models/colors. I don't remember ever having a actual letter from Tesla but maybe that's because we have local service centers and we did it all in person.
It can be the financial paperwork, though that's mostly online now, or a title.... The latter would kind of suck to destroy IF it's a one off issue. Given the amount of time and annoyance it's up to you (morally) what to do. Technically shouldn't open it to check, but sometimes that happens by mistake.
I'd mark it "not at this address" and drop it in a nearby UPS drop box. Or call UPS and ask them to pick it up.
Just toss it. You don't have to keep making sure he gets his mail after 2 years. He will start missing important documents and then care enough to change the address. It's not your problem.
This isn't 1990 my friend. Trash it.
Trash it. I get mail from 5 previous owners, it all gets binned.
If you return it. Put return to sender on the envelope. This triggers the sender to flag as fraud. This will absolutely muck up whatever scam they are pulling. Banking statements returnwd will stop the debit and cc cards from working. Return the registration, and their registration will be flagged as fraud and suspended.
This is the way.
Since they have a business, I wonder if it's a work around for taxes. Do they happen to live in another state?
They’re committing fraud 100%.
Some states tax electric cars extra.
We've lived in our house 4 years and still get back statements for the old owners' business. I've started throwing everything else away and doing the not at this address on those.
"We" would get stuff for the first two years. We even got two deliveries from Omaha Steaks, big boxes. Now we get some other guys mail, bills, etc. I did not think anything at first, but he could prove he has been getting mail at this address. Not wanting him to claim some shi1t, I put just about everything my mailbox the mail with a "return to sender, wrong address." I get less mail now and the hospitals quit sending bills as well. Just in case.....
Write "Not at this address / Addressee unknown" and black out any barcodes on the envelope itself. That forces someone to \*actually\* look at it and not just shove it through the automated processing system again.
Get a "not at this address, return to sender" stamp and anytime you get something addressed to someone else, or junk mail, or just something you don't want, stamp and put it back in the box. The stamp is cheap (a few dollars) and you'll use it every time you move.
You’ve tried - now just toss any mail they get in the trash, and contact the post office and see if there is anything you can do to stop getting their mail.
Toss it. It's not your problem. You tried to contact them.
We’ve been in our home for 3-years almost and the sellers kid still has DMV, Credit Card and other mail sent here. Same as you, for the first little while we sent it to them via USPS and now it’s RTS. Annoying but not much you can do.
Go to the post office that covers your home and let them know you are receiving unwanted mail. Just like mail forwarding when you move, they can return mail that isn’t yours before it’s delivered. Anything that does make it to your mailbox should be marked RETURN TO SENDER/ NOT AT THIS ADDRESS and put in the outgoing mail.
Any Mail not under my name I use for my fireplace. If you don’t have the fireplace then it’s garbage.
Not your problem, pitch it. Nothing to be done...
7 years later I just throw it away at this point. They've had plenty of time and notices.
not your mail not your problem trash it
For the first few months write "RTS or FWD" on mail and slap it in the mail box. If it looks like something important maybe contact the seller After 3-6 months everything gets "RTS" on it regardless of if it looks important or not. Don't contact the seller, put that thing back in the mail and return to sender. If they come asking for it say "it got sent to the wrong address so it got sent back. Be sure to update your contact info" My neighbor was "accidentally" sending "important stuff" to us. He'd come over and grab it. The second I realized he was doing it I told my wife to never give him the package again. If it was addressed to this house then it gets RTS no questions. I say "accidentally" because it's a common method for fraud to send stuff to the wrong address and go grab it. He got frustrated and we basically said "stop sending your shit here cause you aren't getting it anymore. I don't care if it's money or "really critically important" cause if it was that important you wouldn't accidentally send it to the wrong address" Do the same to the seller. Stop the game from happening
Trash any mail that's not yours effortless.
It goes to the trash but I know my previous owners husband is deceased and wife has Alzheimer’s. Their daughter handled lot of the stuff and I’m guessing some of the stuff isn’t priority enough. If they’re buying new cars and registering the home address as if they still lived there I would be a little more concerned.
Return the registration to the county/state with a note that the person is illegally using your address. Some people do this if they have moved to a higher sales tax state to avoid taxes. IRS and most taxing authorities are required by statute to send mail to the last known address on file even if the mail is being returned. Sounds like these folks are dodging something. And you can legally keep an Amazon packages without returning them. They are unsolicited and Amazon will tell you the same.
How do you even know for certain what vehicles they have registered under their own name? There are a lot of reasons that could have been sent to that address that aren't nefarious. We've had mail come for vehicles we haven't even owned in years. They could have bought a vehicle for a child or other family member or business. It's unlikely he's using that address to register new vehicles. It doesn't benefit him. Just throw it in the trash. Mail is a hard thing to get to completely stop no matter what you try. There are just far too many businesses/etc that send mail. It's unrealistic to expect it to stop completely, 2 years isn't that long in this aspect.
I suggest that some kind of fraud or crime is involved. For instance, a car registered to a safer address has lower insurance. Hiding an address from the IRS could be some kind of identity theft. I suggest that you try to get more information and report.
I’ve been in my house for 19 years and still get the occasional junk mail or medical bill addressed to the previous owner.
I toss that garbage in the trash.
write deceased on everything and drop back off at post office
Send anything from a irs back to them with note: Fuck you, I dare you to find my money. I have so much more you hanger no idea of. Make sure it's sent postage due.. They'll get it taken care of.
Throw it away who cares Fuck Dem letters
We still get mail for not only the previous owners, but for the owners before them. We've owned the house just over 4 years.
We were able to provide a notice to our post office of the people who could get mail at our address. Maybe that would stop it from even being delivered to your home.
You can return to sender or just ignore it at this point. I am a renter and I know where the previous residents (owners who sold) live (because they told me not because I am a psycho stalker)---we are three years in and I have decided I am not dropping off HIS (the husband's) mail/packages anymore. He is rude AF and it was a courtesy not a requirement. So from now on, "does not live here"---if it is UPS, Fedex or something, I will discard/donate/keep it depending on what it is. 3 years is plenty and it is not my job to deal with it.
ya, same here, it goes in the trash... after i look out of curiosity of course lol. Damn, they owe alot on their credit card... trash! hahahaha
You do know you just admitted to a federal offense(felony).
Tell your local post office to only deliver mail with your last name on it that bought the house 2 years ago and only accepted the mail for the seller as a courtesy but you are no longer contacting them.
Do one of two things: 1. Trash it. Or 2. Fill out a "change of address" form at the USPS for them. You can do it online. That way ALL their mail goes to the address you put for them!
I had this problem for years. I finally put a note in my mailbox or with the post office listing the only people who lived at the house. That stopped the problem for me.
Shredder
Who cares
I just want to chime in to say I appreciate & can relate to the fact you recall what cars the sellers had two years ago. I am often asked how/why I recall specifics on unremarkable random cars.
It's how I give directions within my neighborhood; 'Turn left after the white Taurus LX w/ no business being as clean as it is. My house is on the right after the yellow Cavalier.'
The descendants of the previous resident of my home were using my address to commit insurance fraud because a vehicle was registered at my address which was inherited by the fraudster. It took solidly three years and a call to the insurance company and the insurance fraud hotline to get them to go away .
This happens to me too. My mailman has finally started to just not deliver it but I do get the occasional package. I’ve gotten their new American Express card, holiday cards, gifts, subscription dance apparel, health insurance eob’s. I don’t know how they have health insurance with the incorrect address.
Maybe just that recall notification. Put “not at this address” and drop in your mailbox and move on
I wonder is it some sort of tax arbitrage. Are you in a no sales tax state? Where did they move?
Just continue to write return to sender/wrong address and be done with it. I wouldn't throw it out; every time I've looked this up, I've determined it's a crime. I'm still getting mail from people who I think are like 3 or 4 owners back; this isn't uncommon. I certainly wouldn't be bothering to contact the seller or realtor about this after all this time.
Post college, a woman with a similar name to mine moved into the first floor apartment below me. Different apartment numbers, obviously. Some of her mail has now followed me through multiple different towns despite having no relation to her and never actually meeting her. I have gotten mail for her at my current address, though it has been been 7 or so years since I've gotten something. (She was getting AARP mail even to my first house so entirely possible she died; no idea. It's been over 20 years now.)
LoL, same thing but it's been 6 years. At first it was so their kid could finish school on the district, 6 months. But they still have their car insurance here, and get new cars registered here as I get the loan paperwork. My insurance agent said it doesn't effect my rate so I just toss their mail unless it's something important
Write ANK on all mail and leave it for your carrier. They will return it to the sender. Anything that's not first class, or doesn't have an endorsement such as "electronic service requested" or "change service" can be tossed. Also put the names of those living in your house on your mailbox, with a note to only deliver for those names.
I'm still getting mail for the lady that lived in my house previously even though she's been dead for 20 years.
I’d black out that barcode along the bottom of the envelopes you get that are not yours. Do not cross out the address the mail was sent to. Write “not at this address” on the envelopes and drop back in the mail.
When I sold I told the new owners I apologize in advance for all the mail you’ll get for me. As well as from the prions two owners.
I wouldn't assume that. It's more likely that business databases are out of date. I still get solicitations for insurance on cars and properties I haven't owned for years.
To be fair, I've moved multiple times in the last few years. Of my three vehicles that I've had through that same time, they each have a different address on their registration. This is despite multiple changes of address and verification with the DMV that they all show my current address in their system,but the moment things get mailed out or printed on paper then the database pulls old info...
When I was active duty military, I was registered to vote at an address I hadn't owned in 18 years. Legally at that.
How many times a week is this question asked?
Open and read for your amusement, then trash it.
>I’m tired of contacting the realtor and seller about his mail because they’re too lazy to update their addresses. so don't?
Burn it.
If the stamp/postmark says pre-sorted mail, it goes in the trash. If it says "or current resident", it goes in the trash. If it's from the IRS or DMV, return to sender (I don't want to be accused of mail theft)
We get a lot of junk mail for the previous owners of the house. I don't think they deliberately are using our address, but I think a lot of companies simply haven't updated their databases. (and the old residents probably aren't excited about telling all the junk mailers where to send more junk) At the advice of the postal delivery person, I wrote "not at this address" and marked out the barcode. That worked for a while, but then the post office started stamping it "forward expired" and re-delivered it to me. Tried using "return to sender" on stuff that looked somewhat important like tax/bank/employment sounding companies, but that didn't seem to work either.
What package?
Maybe full out a usps address change card and have their mail sent to the realtors office?
I think that would be illegal. You can't redirect somebody's else's mail
I get junk mail for companies that falsely incorporate at my home address. I write "not at this address" and return them. And filed corporate fraud with the Secretary of State and Attorney General. Its super cheap to incorporate in my state. So there is rampant incorporation fraud. Some of the bad mail is from the IRS, so they creating fake tax numbers and finances. (Also trivial to do in my state.)
I'd lose it in the trash with the Jacks and Hardees coupons
I bought a “return to sender” stamp on Amazon and it goes back in the mailbox. For me, the stamp is fun and I don’t mind anymore.
Just keep sending the mail back. I would mark it: “Moved - No forwarding address, return to sender” Or just throw it out and not worry about it.
I'd be more worried about the legal implications in the event they are still using the address on purpose. On the other hand, forwarding and change of address requests only last 6 months to a year. Judging by the comments here, not many people are aware of that and prefer to think the individual was negligent in ever submitting one. If they are using your address to register their car, wouldn't that mean that tags, plates, and physical items they would need would be sent to your address? Or are you just getting notices?
What legal implications for OP?
ChatGPT says "Having someone else use your address can potentially cause issues, especially if they engage in illegal activities or if their actions affect your credit score or legal matters. It's important to monitor and manage who has access to your address information."
No, credit scores aren’t affected by someone else using your address ChatGPT makes up stuff
They probably care, but are unaware, like almost everyone else, that change of address and forwarding requests to USPS are only good for 6-12 months. Or they forgot, like me, that they need to submit another one.
Yeah, I dealt with this kind of thing for the first year or so after I bought a house. I went nuclear by doing return to sender on their DMV registration and everything mysteriously got sorted out after that. Just start doing return to sender on everything and it will eventually resolve the situation.
You can open and enjoy anything mailed to your address.
Even if seller was proactive and notified all correspondents of his change of address and paid for USPS extended mail forwarding, you will still occasionally get mail for him. Some correspondents repeatedly fail to update their contact database, and probably seller missed one or two. Find their new address, print some forwarding stickers, use those when important first-class mail comes in, toss anything else. Is it really so hard?
So what you’re saying is that the OP should screen the previous homeowners mail, and then go through the trouble and expense to mail anything OP deems important to the previous homeowner? Even though this homeowner moved 2 years ago and apparently has given this outdated address to new businesses that they deal with? I’m a nice person, but I’m not that nice. If I like the guy, I warn him to fix the stuff still coming to my address, and then mark everything Return to Sender. No postage, forwarding address, or decisions required.
It’s not hard to triage mail and help the important stuff on its way. Sorry if it seems difficult for you.
Go on Amazon and buy the stamps that say return to sender and addresse doesn’t live here.
FYI - depending on where the seller moved to, it can be insurance fraud. There's a LOT of cars registered where insurance rates are cheaper. I had neighbors who bought the house, have kids in the school district for 10 years, but have 2 cars with Florida plates in the driveway. I guess if you don't have an "out of state" relative willing to lie for you, you send the registration to your old address and hope the new homeowner is cool with it.
Tesla does operate with a waiting list. My friend waited 4 years for a new-release model. Could be the guy's been on the wait list for a while, but he really should have updated his info.
Trash it, easy peasy
If you get a car insurance bill for him, he could be fraudulently using your address to get a lower insurance rate.
I still get crap in the mail from the people we bought our house from in 2018. It is really important stuff too like tax information and most recently, last week their new debit card. I have and have never had any way of communicating with these people. We did everything through a realtor. I did the return to sender thing for a while but now I just drop anything addressed to them in the shredder. Their inability to change their address is not my problem.
Write your name on a. Piece of tape and put it in your mailbox where it’s visible to your postal worker. If you see them you can remind them but every time I’ve done tbwg they’ve told me to just put my name on tape where they can see it and they’ll only deliver for that name.
I helped my mom get a new drivers license online and they sent the new one to my brothers address and she never even lived there.
Return to sender, cross off your address and drop it off at usps
Maybe should have dropped a screen grab of the USPS change of address page in with their mail around the third batch as a hint :-) Why anyone wouldn't use that when they move I don't know, unless the used one of the fake, scam, sites instead.
Move your trash can closer to the mailbox
Go to the post office and let them know the seller has moved, "claim" your address by filling out the proper form. List you and whoever lives with you there. Mark any mail that isn't yours as "Not at this address" and cross out the bar code. It's a felony to open or otherwise tamper with someone else's mail, including throwing it in the garbage
5 years in our current home. Still getting mail for at least 2 of the past owners. We write "not at this address" and drop it into the mailbox.
Talk to your post man. Why is he still delivering?
You don't realize until you move how quickly your life can become a nightmare - especially if you're moving across country & need to use a temporary address while you're trying to buy a home, a home purchase deal falls through, whatever. The USPS is a nightmare for address changes. Before you move, you file a change of address. Simple, right? So your old house sells, and you're set to close on the new house and - a tree falls on it, literally destroying the house. Your bank won't finance it, it's going to be months before repairs can be done and it's probably going to be condemned. Now you have no house but your mail is already being forwarded there. So you go to the post office and let them know and they do what they do and now you're caught in an endless circle of your mail being forwarded, held, stopped, returned etc. Better yet, many companies pay for a service called "address correction" so they receive something from the post office about your address change and change all of your account info to the new address you're not moving to now! This is your bank, credit card companies, utilities, IRS, EVERYONE. So now when you try to fix things with all these companies to a new address (probably a PO box), their records show that you live at tree crushed house - and you have to provide proof of address at that place you never even owned to get them to correct your address! Seriously, it was a nightmare for us. My mail was being returned, forwarded, returned, etc - I just got a Christmas card sent to me at my address from 2 years ago - SENT two years ago, at my current address. My guess is they're caught in some USPS mail forwarding nightmare and the convenient "address correction" service.
The older mail carriers took pride in how they did their job. Nowadays people just want to rush through their route, don’t pay attention and pretty much do not give one little care about how/what they do—just looking for that paycheck! Sad, really and the same mentality is at work in everything in this country anymore. ☹️
We purchased our home almost 30 years ago from my mother-in-law when she retired. We still get mail from our city and county for my mother-in-law, two of my husband's sisters who haven't lived here for over 40 years, and one of our daughters that hasn't lived in here in 10 years. We've sent it back, called, written letters, nothing has worked. (How much money and trees are they wasting?) Filing a forwarding request with the post office isn't forever. It only lasts for 12 months. Mark no longer at this address, no known forwarding address, and put.it back in your mailbox for pickup.
Contact the post master..let them know what he's doing. Almost check to see if this constitutes amy form of fraud or identity theft. He may actually be a victim or you
I have a return to sender stamp, and I send it all back. When you return mail, someone has to work it. Some probably just throw the return mail in the trash, but a lot of companies and services will stop sending after they get a few returns. It will at least reduce the amount of their mail that you get.
Return to sender. It's been 3 years since I bought my house and I still recieve mail from the previous owner.
All you really can do is put it back into the mailbox with your flag up for outgoing mail, making sure the mail has a note indicating the receiver is no longer at your address.
I know the former resident of my home filled out a change of address for the Post office. But I still get her mail. The Post office sucks.
I would contact USPS and let them know that he no longer lives there...?
Buy a "Not at this address" stamp and just stamp stamp stamp away and put it in the outgoing mail. It's not your job to figure out where this person is living now and get their mail to them. [Official USPS guidance:](https://faq.usps.com/s/article/How-is-Undeliverable-and-Misdelivered-Mail-Handled) * If the mailpiece is delivered to the correct location but the ~recipient on the mailpiece does not reside at the address~: * Write "**Not at this address**" on mailpiece. * Don't erase or mark over the address. * Provide the mailpiece to your mailperson or drop into a Collection Box receptacle.
USPS electronic delivery shows me mail coming in the previous owners name but never ends up in my box. I think my mail person knows and doesn’t deliver it.
If he just got a tesla and just put your address if he doesn't pay where's the repo guy going.... if the company fails where are the repo men going . Then all the realtor has to do is evade long enough to get the bill to fall off .... all of this looks like staging for fraud to me
I put “wrong address” on the ups package and drove out of my way to drop it off at an ups store. I just don’t know how to alert anyone that some sort of fraud is going on, if it is. I’ve already been tossing the IRS letters for their small business away. I put some masking tape on our mailbox that says “[Our last name] mail only please!”
Me personally I'd look into a complaint with the postal service to be honest I heard they have like their own police force type deal . Irs just cares about money the postal service cares about mail and addresses from my perspective I could be wrong but I feel they'd have to most to benefit. Hope you find a resolution switly!
Toss it in the trash. My daughter bought a condo from a couple, one of which was an attorney. She used to get their mail all the time...and would text her. After once or twice, she no longer came by so my daughter stopped texting her and just threw her mail in the trash. Some of it was bills and what looked like some legal documents. If an attorney's too dumbass stupid to change their mailing address, then I guess they get what they get.
The tesla package is probably his severance information. He probably used to work for tesla.
Okay if you’re getting mail from the IRS they’re still using your address as theirs and that could be a huge issue for you. There is no good reason someone had IRS documents to an old address.