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I don't know what you can do with UPS or FEDEX, but with regular mail, you should call your post office. After 2 years of receiving mail for the previous owners, I called the post office in charge of my address, and told them what was going on, that I was sick of it, and I didn't want to see another single piece of mail that didn't have my name or my husband's name on it. Previous to that, I had spoken with the mailman, and he seemed to understand, but didn't "listen".
After I spoke with the main person at the post office, it's a year later, and I'm still not receiving mail from the previous owner so that call definitely helped!
I agree with the others about calling UPS and telling them to come pick the packages up. I wouldn't want to be liable for anything important that was lost just because they said it was left at the house.
That seems to be an awful long time to be getting the previous owner's packages. I think "return to sender" is your best bet. Tell your neighbor you will no longer be delivering their friend's mail to them.
I don't have the package problem, but after four years living here, we still get mail for past resident. We have contacted the P.O. talked to the mail man, leave notes on mailbox, nothing works.
I have even started opening the mail and calling the sender and told them. Even that doesn't always work.
On some occasions, I just stuff them back in the outgoing box after writing "No longer at this address". The same mail arrives a few days later, with my explanation on the front.
The problem stems from the fact we are dealing with robots...!
We still get mail (usually mail wanting to sell her insurance or some such thing) for my deceased mother-in-law, who not only never lived at the house that we currently live in, she never lived at the house that we moved from 12 years ago, and she died in 1990.
We still get mail (usually mail wanting to sell her insurance or some such thing) for my deceased mother-in-law, who not only never lived at the house that we currently live in, she never lived at the house that we moved from 12 years ago, and she died in 1990.
LOL!
Enough time has passed. I would lose the packages in the dumpster behind the local grocery store, after ripping off the labels of course. I think I'd open them to be certain there weren't any shipping descriptions left inside with my address. But I would toss them and the contents, never to be seen again!
I'm in the same situation... an unsealed letter came yesterday that turned out to be for the people that used to live in the house I bought 3 months ago. Apparently some university has been trying to send the previous owners $300 in refund checks for over a year!
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Package? What package?
