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It's been 4 years and I still get important mail for the last homeowner

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Exterous

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I just got a letter from the US patent office which (on the outside) says its in regards to a patent just filed. I still get letters from banks, lawyers, even the occasional package. I don't understand how he hasn't figured out addressing yet
 
That is what the trashcan is for.

I've been in my house over 20 years and still get the occasional mail for the couple I bought from. In the trash it goes.
 
Exterous said:
I just got a letter from the US patent office which (on the outside) says its in regards to a patent just filed. I still get letters from banks, lawyers, even the occasional package. I don't understand how he hasn't figured out addressing yet
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I have a similar problem best way to reduce it is on the envelope write “Addressee no longer here” then leave in the mailbox, no postage required. The returned mail seems to make the sender update their records.
I started doing this 3 or 4 years ago per the mail carriers advice. Definitely an improvement, instead of multiple times per week it’s down to once or twice a month and that stuff is addressed to Rachel/Mark or current resident.
 
We bought this house in September 2012 and still get stuff for the previous owners. It goes straight into the trash.
 
I believe throwing other peoples mail in the trash is covered under some sort of federal law. I wouldnt brag about your crimes on the internet.
 
randay said:
I believe throwing other peoples mail in the trash is covered under some sort of federal law. I wouldnt brag about your crimes on the internet.
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I also drill holes in pennies to make washers.

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We lived in our house in CA for 13 years...got mail for the previous owners the entire time. Lived in the last house over 6 years...got mail for the previous owner the whole time...even after he died. We've been in this house almost a year...still get mail for the previous owner...
I'll cross out the address, write "Moved. NFA" on it stick it back in the box...for a year. After that, unless it looks important, it goes in the trash.
 
For the first 10 years that we lived in this house, we continued to get quarterly royalty checks for a recording artist. One that lived here BEFORE the people we purchased the house from. So there is no telling how many years this has actually gone on. That artist built the house in the early '90s.

We return-to-sender each time and told the post office and post man multiple times, but they still showed up quarterly! They stopped about 2 years ago. I guess the artist finally realized they weren't getting their royalties? Lol, who knows.
 
Ive lived in this house for 21 years. One day every year I will open my mailbox and find 10 letters from the IRS for John D. XXXXXX . I always give them to the mailman and tell him how long Ive lived here and that I get them every year.
 
Office quality shredder, the kind that can chew up thick envelopes.

I got one for $100 on clearance at office max and haven't regretted it for a second.
 
we cleared the land and applied for this address 25 years ago, and today I had to 'return to sender' some mail. Some people just don't address well.
 
skyking said:
we cleared the land and applied for this address 25 years ago, and today I had to 'return to sender' some mail. Some people just don't address well.
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that's true. I am recently also some business address for "Medical Services" or some shit, and I keep getting some lady's vendor spam mail for medical software and whatnot...and seminars. Part of me suspects there is some sort of fraud or something, using my address as one of many fake shell companies or some crap? Is that a thing?

I did look it up and there are one or two offices for this super fake-sounding business in the Baltimore area (about 15-20 miles away), but then that's what Google Maps says. I guess they could also be fake.
 
Previous owner of my house was an old lady who was placed in an old age home. Never actually really got to meet her throughout the buying process as it was through a realtor but everyone told me she was really nice. I often got Christmas cards for her in the mail so I would bring them to the old age home. There's only one time where I saw her since the nurse just had me go deliver it to her room. She just seemed like the type of person you want to sit down with and talk about stuff, but I also did not know how she was handling the idea that she got placed so if she would even want to talk to the person that bought her house. So I didn't really talk much and just said I had mail for her. She did have dementia as well so was not sure what state she was so didn't really want to bother her.

One year I go to deliver her Christmas cards and the nurse told me she passed way. I was kinda sad despite not even knowing her. It was practically turning into a Christmas tradition to go drop her cards off. I ended up opening them just to make sure there was no money or anything important (I would have tried to find a contact for her family in that case) then threw it in the recycling. Felt kinda bad but didn't really know what else to do. They were mostly generic cards though that were just being mass sent to family.
 
highland145 said:
yeah. changing it to .....I'll burn your effing house down.

Makes me feel more useful.
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Heh...I told a boss one time I was gonna have to file a union grievance against him. He said, "I don't like being threatened."
I smiled and told him, "that's not a threat...that's a promise. If I tell you I'm gonna set your house on fire in the middle of the night and shoot you, your wife, and your children as you run screaming from the fucking building...that might be a threat."
 
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