We have lived in our current address since 2018.
We have had a PCN for previous occupants for an incident in 2019 we normally return mail to sender as moved out in 2018.
A few years ago the PCN referred to above was inadvertently opened amongst our mail it relates to Horizon parking charge.
I referred the matter to the DVLA informing them to remove the vehicle registered to our home address under the being bothered policy and received a letter acknowledging this.
I also returned the PCN to the Parking company explaining that the person had moved and gave them an outline of where they moved to according to our recollection.
We are constantly receiving letters returning them unopened to the address on the reverse of the letter they appear from Debt Collectors. Surely these imbeciles have the nounce the make enquires via the voters register etc to establish the house number where the person lives the only fly in the ointment is we have correspondence form other companies with a multiple use of surnames.
I suppose just returning the mail is my best option.
Today we received another letter addressed to previous occupant SWMBO inadvertently opened it whilst opening an abundance of letters for us. The letter is yet again asking for £170 from moorside debt collectors.We will yet again return it.
I suspect your recycling bin will find a use for such letters. Otherwise I find a threat of the Prevention from Harassment Act usually works.
Forget all this inadvertent bollox.
Once mail has been delivered, it is not an offence to open and read it unless it is with the intention of causing harm to the addressee.
Did you have a question?
Just a nuisance will return letter with reply as outlined above. SWMBO was concerned that she may have triggered a bit of grief that she opened previous occupier mail.
SWMBO was concerned that she may have triggered a bit of grief that she opened previous occupier mail.
As andy_foster has said opening mail delivered to your address for someone who doesn't live there is not automatically illegal. Should anyone ever question that the relevant law is
s84 (3) Postal Services Act 2000 which says [my bold] "A person commits an offence
if, intending to act to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."
So if that isn't your intent in opening the item of mail then there is no offence.
"Reasonable excuse" could include a concern that a fraud was being carried out using your address or to find the return address for the sender, or indeed just opening in error by not noticing the addressee name on the mail.
I don't think the OP's concern is opening post, it's whether they're likely to have bailiffs turning up on the doorstep. OP, pl confirm.
Others have more knowledge, but as I understand it, unless the sum outstanding meets the High Court enforcement threshold then 'enforcement officers' aren't engaged. A single parking charge would not meet this threshold.
We have had a PCN for previous occupants for an incident in 2019
When exactly in 2019? I ask because the limit for bringing any legal proceedings in this matter(alleged breach of simple contract) is 6 years and once this deadline has passed you should be free from the nuisance.