• psud
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    4 months ago

    When I was renting I had a stamp “Return to sender. Addressee not known at this address”

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      4 months ago

      I do similar. Cross the name out with a Sharpie and write “MOVED”.

      After owning the place for two years now I just throw it out.

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      I did that for a couple years, and now I still get junk from the previous owner. I’ve been here 10 years…

      Then again, now I get invitations to retirement stuff, so I guess that’s cool (I’m nowhere near retirement, but the previous owner was about that age).

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        4 months ago

        Yeah it took some 15 years for the letters for the people who lived in my house before me to stop

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          Yeah, I mostly just toss them now, but if I get a bunch all at once, I’ll take a couple minutes to annoy the mail carrier with some “Not at this address” markings.

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        4 months ago

        Yeah I work in a government department which among other things has to handle mail returned to it, and I know we mark addresses unreliable when mail comes back

        I guess I just hope the electricity company and local government is as diligent

        I’d wait until I had a few before making an effort to post the returns (Australia doesn’t have mail pickup from your home mailbox; we have post boxes at local shops)