"Bob Robertson" wrote in message
news:y2aFj.28312$kN5.8525@newsfe1-gui.ntli.net...
> 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.
IME:
Some people will do this without the bottle of wine.
And some people are arses who think that mistakes made by RM in not getting
100% accuracy when operating a paid for rediection is the fault of the
previous owner, so they go out of their way to not let you collect the stray
mail however easy you make it for them
tim
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