Hi,
I recently moved out of a rented house. I called back to the old house about 3 months after I moved out and asked the new residents if there was any mail for me. I got a blank "No!", and basically had the door closed in my face.
Even though I had got my address changed for most things, you would expect to have forgot a few which would need tidying up. There had been 4 of us living in the house previously, so you'd expect to have quite a few letters built up after 3 months. I was a bit taken aback by the abruptness of the response, but was polite and said nothing and left.
And am I right in saying it's illegal to dump other people's mail?
Then yesterday I received a letter from the new residents containing two bills. They weren't in their envelopes. They had been opened and then sent on to me. (Their landlord had my address).
Am I right in saying that it is illegal to open other people's mail?
I wouldn't have such an issue if they had sent me a load of unopened mail and the bills were among them, but I didn't like their way of doing thing.
Incidently, the date on the bills was for before I had called around. i.e. those bills were sitting there when I was told there was no mail for me. Maybe they hadn't got around to reading them yet ;o)
One bill was for ESB which was actually due to the landlord, not me, and the other was an ESB bill which was an oversight. The new residents sent it on coz they couldn't get connected untill the bill was paid.
Larry
I recently moved out of a rented house. I called back to the old house about 3 months after I moved out and asked the new residents if there was any mail for me. I got a blank "No!", and basically had the door closed in my face.
Even though I had got my address changed for most things, you would expect to have forgot a few which would need tidying up. There had been 4 of us living in the house previously, so you'd expect to have quite a few letters built up after 3 months. I was a bit taken aback by the abruptness of the response, but was polite and said nothing and left.
And am I right in saying it's illegal to dump other people's mail?
Then yesterday I received a letter from the new residents containing two bills. They weren't in their envelopes. They had been opened and then sent on to me. (Their landlord had my address).
Am I right in saying that it is illegal to open other people's mail?
I wouldn't have such an issue if they had sent me a load of unopened mail and the bills were among them, but I didn't like their way of doing thing.
Incidently, the date on the bills was for before I had called around. i.e. those bills were sitting there when I was told there was no mail for me. Maybe they hadn't got around to reading them yet ;o)
One bill was for ESB which was actually due to the landlord, not me, and the other was an ESB bill which was an oversight. The new residents sent it on coz they couldn't get connected untill the bill was paid.
Larry