On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:58:26 +0000, Bob Robertson wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 12:14:42 +0000, Anthony R. Gold wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> If you've ever moved house you'll know this wouldn't be ideal.
Although last time we moved house we left the new occupants a bottle of
wine along with our new address in case any mail was forwarded. They
kindly put our new address on the letters instead of 'return to sender'
and they reached us at no extra cost. |