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11-04-2009, 12:51 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2007
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Short for "Moved Left No Forwarding address"
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11-04-2009, 07:00 PM
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Real Housewife of Dallas
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: The Big D
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I agree with everyone else. Mark it, "Not at this address" or "Moved and NO Forwarding Address". As other have said this alerts the mail carrier that mail addressed to that person at THAT address is going to be returned. AND, it gets sent back to the sender and they can try to contact the rightful person and get a new current address.
I was always told to put a line across the addressed portion and then write "MOVED" or "NO ONE BY THIS NAME AT THIS ADDRESS" or the "MOVED WITH NO FORWARDING ADDRESS". One carrier even told me the line alone is all they need.
In the last month I have gotten two different pieces of mail from a local hospital and a radiology center to someone with a completely different name than ours and than from anyone that has ever lived at this address (we are the second owners) but it has OUR address. I just mark it "no one at this address with this name" and put it back in the box. No one on our small street of 6 houses has the name on this mail. I do find it odd.
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11-04-2009, 07:30 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2007
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It took me forever to get them to quite delivering the previous owners mail here . It was mostly junk mail but had to go to teh post office serveral times to have ot fainla stopped. Funny thing was they had forwarded their mail.Now all we have to worry about is if our mail woman goes on leave and we have to sort the mail when the subsitute delivers it thru out the neighborhood not by address.
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11-05-2009, 10:59 AM
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Moderator
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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40 years ago, my parents bought their home and they still get mail addressed to the previous owner...
The best one last year is a postcard from Dentist that said it's been 37 years since your last visit... your teeth are important... call today for a free exam 
Most of the mail is from High School Reunions and old friends... the former owners "New" home can be seen from my parents house... Mom will take to them and they appreciate it since they can't get around too well.
At my rentals... mail is a constant problem... some of my tenants have a note to letter carrier to only leave mail addressed to this name...
A big problem I had bundling mail and returning it to the post office is that it always came back...
My letter carrier told me this is because the bar coding under the address is read by machine... he said I need to take a marker and go over the bar code and write Moved... please Forward or Return to Sender...
So far doing this has worked...  |
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11-05-2009, 12:52 PM
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Accepting the things that I can't change....
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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When you put Return to Sender on the mail, the Post Office attaches a yellow sticker and returns it.
Businesses are required to pay return postage for each piece of mail they have returned to them so they quickly mark their records.
Problem solved.
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11-05-2009, 09:23 PM
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Christmas is almost over!!!
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Somewhere in Kentucky
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Quote:
Originally Posted by World Citizen
When you put Return to Sender on the mail, the Post Office attaches a yellow sticker and returns it.
Businesses are required to pay return postage for each piece of mail they have returned to them so they quickly mark their records.
Problem solved.
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You would be amazed how many businesses don't. I still get mail for people on my route who have been DEAD for years!!! |
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11-06-2009, 07:44 AM
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Accepting the things that I can't change....
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Join Date: Oct 2007
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Originally Posted by kentuckydad95
You would be amazed how many businesses don't. I still get mail for people on my route who have been DEAD for years!!! |
Don't you think that's because advertisers buy lists of names for mailing and those lists are not updated??  |
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11-06-2009, 12:15 PM
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Superstar rollercoaster ride
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Sloooowcala Florida
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I used to get a guy's bank statements for months and months and kept sending them back to the post office. Then kept getting new ones. I found the guy's new address in the phone book and mailed his bank statement unopened to him with a nice note saying essentially, "Please have your mailing address changed. You would not want information this important to get into the wrong hands."... Never got another bank statement of his again.
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11-06-2009, 01:34 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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We had the situation and the mail carrier asked us NOT to write on the mail itself - just put in mbx with flag up and note no longer lives here. - - - in our case is old mail because the forwarding order has expired....but some of it looks important [not the stuff that looks important but isn't]
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11-06-2009, 07:13 PM
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Christmas is almost over!!!
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Somewhere in Kentucky
1,526 posts, read 799,344 times
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Quote:
Originally Posted by World Citizen
Don't you think that's because advertisers buy lists of names for mailing and those lists are not updated?? |
Hell, I still have property tax bills that come for houses that are no longer even there. |
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