How do I stop postal mail to previous tenants of my home?

Question

I just moved into a new apartment and my postal mailbox is filled everyday with mail addressed to people who no longer live at my address. What do I do to end this? This problem is so big, it is accounting for half my trash each week.

Answer 1

Just go to the post office, there is a card you can fill out to have the mail held there until the previous tenant decides to put in their forwarding order. It will usually only apply to first class mail. The junk mail you're kind of stuck with unless you put "no such person at this address" on each and every envelope. If you do that, eventually the junk mail will stop too.

Hope this helps!!

Answer 2

Previous Tenants

Answer 3

Return to sender for the first 3 months, most previous occupants should have had enough time to either set up a mail divert or change their address. After that try tracking them down using electoral role or get in touch with your solicitor (if you bought a house). Your solicitor should be able to contact the seller's solicitor and from them get the seller's new address. Failing that, just chuck the mail away. If the previous people can't be bothered / are too stupid to sort their affairs out then that's their problem!

Answer 4

There are a couple of things you can do:

Contact you local postmaster and see if the previous tenants submitted a change of address form. It could be that it is not being enforced.

If they did not submit a change of address form, tell the postmaster what addressee's names should be receiving mail at the address.

When mail is delivered to your box that is not yours, write "NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS - RETURN TO SENDER" and place it back in the box. The postal service will deliver the mail back to the sender and hopefully they will update their records.

If you are receiving bulk mail that is generally addressed to "so and so or current resident" you can contact the sender and ask them to remove your address from their mailing list. (save a tree)

Good luck

Answer 5

write on each one of them "Moved" and go to the post office and tell you postmaster to only put your mail. Put on your box just your last name. (example) Torres mail only. There is a form you can fill out at the post office too. Give them about 2 weeks, it should stop. As for the junk mail call to optout creditcard offers 1-888-567-8688 Another one is Write to DMA Mail Preference Service P.O. Box 9008 Farmingdale, Ny 11735-9008 or www.the-dma.org. Hope this will help you. And don't do any surveys.

Answer 6

Mark the mail "Return to sender. No longer at this address" and put it back in the post. Legally you cannot throw someone else's mail in the trash or open it.

You can trash bulk mail as it cannot be returned to the sender.

Unfortunately until the sender stops sending it, the Post Office must deliver it as addressed. Hopefully the prior resident will put in a Change of Address notification and it should slow to a trickle.

Answer 7

call the Post Office Monday, and inform them that you have a bunch of mail that belongs to the former tenant, and stop throwing their mail out. It could be very important, Just ask that it no longer be delivered to your box.

Answer 8

don't throw it away. have patience for about a week after you start the process. write on each envelope, "not at this address" and leave it in the mailbox. the postal worker is supposed to return it to the sender. occasionally you will still get one, but once you start that process, trust me, it works.

Answer 9

you can write on the mail -no such person lives here- and drop in the mail box.
i had that when i moved in my apartment, and it worked good for me.
other wise take it to the post office and talk to them about it!

Answer 10

Contact the local postmaster.