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17 years and I still get junk mail for a previous owner, in fact it has gotten worse lately. I think his name and my address made it to a new bulk mail list.
Between my wife and I, our daughter and the previous owner I could pay for my auto insurance on what State Farm pays for junk mail postage that I never open. It goes straight from the mail box to the trash.
Anyone else get a lot of State farm mail from agents around farmingdale ??
I also do something that seems to work with unsolicited mail for me.
If I get a return envelope that is paid, I send everything back to them that they sent me with a note to please remove me. They are now paying for having sent me unsolicited mail.
Between State Farm and Fios it's hard to believe they can stay in business with all the mailers they send out. Every week we get this stuff and it's addressed to multiple people too, I get them in my name, my wife gets them in her name...
You'd think they would have somebody on staff to verify some of the information, they'd probably save 100's of thousands of bucks a year.
Do I need to tell USPS about this OR I cannot do anything?
Tell the Post Office. They will put a card in your slot saying not to deliver any mail for (old owner/residents' names). The sorters will stop putting it in your slot. Not sure where it goes from there but who cares...at least you won't get it any more.
I'm just shy of 21 years in my house. I am still receiving both junk and first class mail for previous occupants going back as far as the 1980's. This house was previously a rental, so I'm getting mail for multiple people.
I handle this mail as I was instructed to do when I worked for the USPS. Yes, some of the mail is junk mail which, when turned back over to the USPS, we would dispose of in a garbage can. I tend to chuck the bulk mail.
Some of the mail I receive is 1st class, some with forwarding address requests. When I receive a piece of 1st class mail, I run a black marker through the name and address and another line through the computerized presort info toward the envelope's bottom. I then write RTS: No such person.
Some of the errant mail it slips by in presort, over which the carrier has no control.
Tell the Post Office. They will put a card in your slot saying not to deliver any mail for (old owner/residents' names). The sorters will stop putting it in your slot. Not sure where it goes from there but who cares...at least you won't get it any more.
A card won't stop the electronically presorted mail. Most of the carriers I worked with (the ones with the regular routes) were good about pulling mail for former residents when they were casing their own mail, and then pulling bad mail from presort when on the street. Some of them didn't have cards, which meant I didn't know who to pull. As a result, I delivered mail for past residents. It was a simple error which some people make out to be an egregious offense.
As a PTF, I had to know all of the routes -- and as I was never on the same route for any length of time it made it very difficult to learn who the residents were vs. the past residents.
17 years and I still get junk mail for a previous owner, in fact it has gotten worse lately. I think his name and my address made it to a new bulk mail list.
Between my wife and I, our daughter and the previous owner I could pay for my auto insurance on what State Farm pays for junk mail postage that I never open. It goes straight from the mail box to the trash.
Anyone else get a lot of State farm mail from agents around farmingdale ??
I receive a lot from State Farm agents in Stony Brook/Setauket/St James. Tree killers!
A card won't stop the electronically presorted mail. Most of the carriers I worked with (the ones with the regular routes) were good about pulling mail for former residents when they were casing their own mail, and then pulling bad mail from presort when on the street. Some of them didn't have cards, which meant I didn't know who to pull. As a result, I delivered mail for past residents. It was a simple error which some people make out to be an egregious offense.
As a PTF, I had to know all of the routes -- and as I was never on the same route for any length of time it made it very difficult to learn who the residents were vs. the past residents.
Worked fine for me for 6 years. I only get my mail. I'm a squeaky wheel
Tell the Post Office. They will put a card in your slot saying not to deliver any mail for (old owner/residents' names). The sorters will stop putting it in your slot. Not sure where it goes from there but who cares...at least you won't get it any more.
I would do that but the previous owners last name is 1 letter different from mine. I almost did not get my CO for some renovations I had done before moving in because the Post Office returned it to sender. The village finally addressed it to resident and it got delivered. So I just live with it
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