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04-27-2017, 08:07 PM
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#1 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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My wife and I been in our current home for over a year but the previous owner had small village living here plus renters. We keep sending their mail back marked return to sender. We usually are sending upwards 20 pieces a week back. Today a repo man came looking for one of them who apparently got a car in January provided our address but no payments.
Has anyone had similar situation and if so any suggestions on how to stop getting their mail? Any help or suggestions would be much appreciated
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04-27-2017, 08:34 PM
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#2 | | Waxin’ Punks
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I've had the same problem nearly 3 years now. In for advice as well.
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04-27-2017, 08:54 PM
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#3 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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My experience has been if you are diligent in sending it back with detailed notes written with a thick bold sharpie like: "Return to sender, nobody lives here by that name" or Please stop stending mail to this address, this person does not live here" and it will slow down after a month or two
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04-27-2017, 09:01 PM
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#4 | | Performance Moderator
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This happens to so many people around me with too quickly recycled cell phone numbers too! Constant calls for the previous phone number owner from creditors... man, we really are in for a economic crash if this shit is so frequent with everyone.
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04-27-2017, 09:02 PM
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#5 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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04-27-2017, 09:07 PM
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#6 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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I work at a post office so let me add a few notes to this.
- we do return letter mail back to sender if it was a paid letter mail; its up to the sender to update their systems so you won't get them again
- ad mail (personalized mail) we don't return; we just throw it away and recycle. Can't do much about that I'm afraid
Hope that helps
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04-28-2017, 07:34 AM
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#7 | | I told him no, what y'all do?
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i've written "wrong address return to sender" only to have it sent back to me with what i printed still on it  
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04-28-2017, 07:40 AM
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if the old tenants/owners don't care enough about changing addresses, its probably not an important piece of mail to them.......
after 6 months of this stuff i would trash it
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04-28-2017, 07:47 AM
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#9 | | NOOB, Not Quite a Regular!
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Looking at the types of stuff that comes we can tell they are in some serious financial trouble, Sands & Associates, money tree, 4-7 voter registration cards (wife contact who ever to have everyone removed from the address)
My wife usually hands a stack to the mail carrier every monday marked return to sender, but as mentioned above the same letter makes it way back.
I would love to start just throwing stuff out but apparently its against the law and if caught could get some serious trouble, but might have to just start doing that.
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04-28-2017, 08:02 AM
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#10 | | OMGWTFBBQ is a common word I say everyday
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Originally Posted by GLOW i've written "wrong address return to sender" only to have it sent back to me with what i printed still on it | hahah this
happened to me so many times
the previous owners of my unit moved out more than 2 years ago and yesterday I just got another letter meant for them
I did learn that if it was spam mail, i was better off hucking that shit in the bin cus for the first 6 months of living there, i was still getting their shit despite me diligently writing "RTS - Moved"
I don't know just how clueless/lazy the previous owners were but I was getting some bank-related info and even a credit card a year into living at my place. 
Assuming you're moving within the GVRD, i don't understand how some people still can't get their shit together and make sure addresses are changed on the basics. It's your banking information for fuck's sakes. It's a pain in the ass but at the very least, it should be done.
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04-28-2017, 08:33 AM
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#11 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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Originally Posted by Dharminder Looking at the types of stuff that comes we can tell they are in some serious financial trouble, Sands & Associates, money tree, 4-7 voter registration cards (wife contact who ever to have everyone removed from the address)
My wife usually hands a stack to the mail carrier every monday marked return to sender, but as mentioned above the same letter makes it way back.
I would love to start just throwing stuff out but apparently its against the law and if caught could get some serious trouble, but might have to just start doing that. | Yea doesn't look like they care about Money Tree so much that they will be suing you for trashing their mail. Having said that, if you accidentally had things drop into the trash can that was on the floor beside the door.....  | |
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04-28-2017, 08:53 AM
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#12 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Originally Posted by GLOW i've written "wrong address return to sender" only to have it sent back to me with what i printed still on it | I had that grammar mistake in the past.
I didn't realize that it is most likely interpreted that it was sent to the wrong house and now, the address will be sent to my actual address.  | |
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04-28-2017, 09:13 AM
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#13 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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Parents had someone open a bank account at VanCity under my parents address in Burnaby. They were receiving lots of mail from this person and were constantly sending it back and even calling the bank to let them know about it but they wouldn't do anything about it. It got to the point where my mom told the bank that if they were to keep sending it there she'll open it. Boom. Never had a single letter from them delivered to their house again.
Looked the guys name up on facebook to see what came up and only 1 person showed. Guy looked like a junkie from Coquitlam.
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04-28-2017, 09:27 AM
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#14 | | In RS I Trust
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I had the previous owners mail sent to my house for ages and I kept on sending back with return to sender on it as well. I've been in the house for 7 months now and I just toss it if I receive anything. If the previous owner is lazy I aint putting in effort for him.
He was a fucken dick as well.
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04-30-2017, 06:55 PM
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#15 | | Wunder? Wonder?? Wander???
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Simple solution dollar store labels over the address so it can't be redelivered. even better if you spend the nickel in toner and print MOVED on them.
or sharpie over the address
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