"Anthony R. Gold" wrote in message
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> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 11:12:02 -0000, "Tappy Lappy"
> wrote:
>
>> We have just moved home, and are still receiving mail for the previous
>> occupants. I have clearly marked their letters "not at this address" and
>> put
>> them back in the post box, but Royal Mail are still delivering the same
>> items back here.
>
> Your mistake was to leave that address visible and not to obscure it :-)
>
>> What is our legal position please?
>
> Your legal position is that the mail is not your property but you have no
> obligation to do anything in particular with it. If you can contact the
> previous occupants you could tell them that the mail will be discarded
> after some reasonable period (say 1 month) and invite them to make
> arrangements for its collection or you could return it to the Royal Mail.
>
> Tony
Thanks Tony, I will definitely obliterate the addrsss in future. :-]
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