Your Mail
Under the Postal Services Act 2000, a person commits an offence if they open an item of post which they know or reasonably suspect has been correctly delivered to the address - but addressed to a previous occupant.
Royal Mail are obliged to deliver the post as addressed and advise that the only way to stop a mailing is at source.
Score through the address with a pen and write on the front of the envelope NOT KNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS RETURN TO SENDER. Put the mail back into a post box - free of charge. If there is no return address visible, Royal Mail have a returned letter centre in Belfast where they are allowed to open the mail and repatriate with the sender. The relevant database should then be amended and the mailings stop. If no suitable recipient can be established the item will be destroyed.
