Still getting mail for previous tenant 4+ years later???

Ever since we moved in, we've been getting mail for the previous tenant. He still lives in my building, but in a different apartment as he is now the superintendant.

Most of the stuff is credit related. I used to mark it return to sender, no longer living here. Then I marked it "moved to unit #__"... I'm sick of it to be honest and we even marked our mailbox to ask for no mail for the ____ family.

Is there anything else we can do? I feel like either he's too lazy to change his address or he's running for a creditor or the companies just never updated their records... either way, what can we do?

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We get the same thing for the previous owners. I just keep marking it "HASN'T LIVED AT THIS ADDRESS FOR __ YEARS!!!"

I'm not sure if you can go online and enter a forwarding address for the guy...like when you move and need your mail forwarded.

eta: We get the former owner's tax documents from their CPA, every year. Boggles my mind.

Message edited 10/4/2011 11:14:17 AM.

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We have been in our house 5 yrs and the guy we bought it from was a flipper. We get mail for him even though he never lived in the house!-I am sure he is using our address to 'avoid' getting some mail. We just mark it return to sender.

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Re: Still getting mail for previous tenant 4+ years later???

If it's credit related stuff, he debt is being sold over and over again with the wrong address. Mark it all "Return to sender - no longer at this address" Then they'll skip trace him, update the address and sell it to another company with the old address.

Wash, rinse, repeat and pray eventually the new address sticks somewhere along the line

Seriously, if he's still in the same building, just leave it out for him or send him a note to update his addy.

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Re: Still getting mail for previous tenant 4+ years later???

Our mailman does this and it drives me nuts. So one day I wrote across the letter in big letters NOT AT ADDRESS and my mailman came to our door and yelled at me! I asked him why if he 100% knows so and so doesnt live here why he insists on delivering our mail still and he just shrugged and didnt answer me. We dont get as much but every now and then something slips in and I mark it NSA and drop it back in outgoing.

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Re: Still getting mail for previous tenant 4+ years later???

Not for nothing, but can't you just toss it in the trash at this point? It sounds like you've done your "duty" and tried to get the point across. The only other thing I can think of is to try to catch the mail man/woman and tell him or her to stop giving you this person's mail. I would be done with the "return to sender" nonsense after that long!

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We get mail for previous homeowners (6 years ago).

It seems that at some point the post office forwarding stops and everything just gets pushed thru.

If something looks important (from the DMV, lawyer, etc) I will return to sender. Otherwise, trash.

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YESSSSSSS! I put RTS (return to sender) and the put a slash / through the persons name and address

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we do too...it has been almost 5 years. A this point I just put it in the trash. I used to do Return to sender...but I am sorry this is wayyy to long

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We still get stuff occasionally after 4 years. We usually write "Addressee Unknown". The mailman was nice enough to ask what names we had and which were the old owners. He tries to pull most of their mail aside but if something gets through we just return it.

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I have had similiar experiences with our house. We received the old owner's mail for a least the first 3 years.

Just recently, we received a wedding RSVP for an address on the other side of town (maybe 2 miles away). I marked it as the wrong address and put it back in the mail. It came back to us !!! Finally, I drove it to the person's house (just to be nice) yet I still get their mail.

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We still get some mail for the people we bought our house from, and we've been living here for over 4years. I used to send it all back but now if it's junk mail I toss it. But I still write RTS and 'no longer at this address' on bills and send them back.