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Jun. 6th, 2006 09:46 amIs it so hard to organise mail forwarding/redirect when you move house?
When we moved into our lovely new house it had been empty for two months. You'd think that in that period they'd have set up a redirect? Nope. Every day we get piles of post for the old owners, their brother, and the occasional bit for previous owners, too. This was a problem at our last house, too, and there the previous owner of the house actually came back from Roumania occasionally to pick up his post. You'd think it would be cheaper to write a bunch of "I moved house!" letters than to fly back every few months to pick up post. (Well, I suppose he could be doing other stuff, too, not just plaguing me. I wouldn't know, he was weird.)
Today I'm going to hobble across the road and dump all of this crap in the postbox. Hopefully if I mark it all with "Return to sender, no forwarding address" the flood of post--ten today!!--will eventually become a trickle....
ETA. I had a chat with our postman this morning--who seems to be a Tom Cruise lookalike--and he's going to set aside the post for the previous occupiers and do the return to senders for me. What a lovely chap, despite his unfortunate resemblance.
When we moved into our lovely new house it had been empty for two months. You'd think that in that period they'd have set up a redirect? Nope. Every day we get piles of post for the old owners, their brother, and the occasional bit for previous owners, too. This was a problem at our last house, too, and there the previous owner of the house actually came back from Roumania occasionally to pick up his post. You'd think it would be cheaper to write a bunch of "I moved house!" letters than to fly back every few months to pick up post. (Well, I suppose he could be doing other stuff, too, not just plaguing me. I wouldn't know, he was weird.)
Today I'm going to hobble across the road and dump all of this crap in the postbox. Hopefully if I mark it all with "Return to sender, no forwarding address" the flood of post--ten today!!--will eventually become a trickle....
ETA. I had a chat with our postman this morning--who seems to be a Tom Cruise lookalike--and he's going to set aside the post for the previous occupiers and do the return to senders for me. What a lovely chap, despite his unfortunate resemblance.
