While the junk mails are thrown into the bin, what to do with mails for previous tenants? My current rental unit and the previous one, both have the same problem. Apparently postal mails are coming for them for years, including financial related e.g. superannuation, bank statement, insurance etc.
Is there a way to stop these mails? If not, what to do with them?
Will try this and update here.
What the post above me said. Usually it stops coming once you do this for any mail that keeps coming.
Just buy a pack of avery address labels from officeworks. Get the template, write "RETURN TO SENDER - NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRESS", print them out, stick over the address. put in the postbox (no stamp)
That doesn't sound very ozbargain. I would have accepted 'wait for a vistaprint free stamp offer…'
I just use a pen or pencil to write it. If it's more than a couple a day I guess you could invest in stickers.
And you can save ink by abbreviating; "RTS - Not at address".
would the ink stick to the plastic though? That's why permanent marker works well
I've done the labels routine for a couple of years now and it makes it easy when you get multiple letters a day.
But it only works to a certain extend: Bl**dy Westpac sends through three statements a month for the same guy. Following my efforts, they updated the address field to say:
<Recipient>
** OBSOLETE ADDRESS **
** ASK CUSTOMER **
<My address here>
…but I still get three a month. Sigh.
+1 for your effort tplen1
Back in my uni days I also worked at a bottle-o and had a customer come in with the same name on his credit card as a repeat mail offender from my house at the time. When he called out to his wife/gf/partner with the same name, the penny dropped that they were one and the same, and I said something. Bloke didn't appreciate me saying his mail was still coming, and I think it freaked him out a little.
Never saw him again, but continued to get the mail. You can chalk that up as a loss.
Yes. It's interfering with mail, and you can be charged for it.
http://www.pio.gov.au/making-a-complaint/common-complaint-th…
Not that I'm chugging them in bin! Its just that my mailbox is full. Thanks for letting me know.
Update: I went to the local auspost outlet today and the friendly gentleman there was happy to take those off my hands. He did scratched some numbers and codes off the envelopes, saying it might come back again if those were not erased/inked. So please talk to the counter person before depositing the letters. BTW, he was quite surprised by the amount of letters I had!
http://www.pio.gov.au/making-a-complaint/common-complaint-th…
There are also some other options provided in the link.