[Closed] Legal to dispose of junk mail addressed to other people?

what mail ?

Pfft yes just recycle it

I would just bin it, personally, but, alternatively you could register the previous owner for the mailing preference service at your address to dry up junk mail or talk to your postie/manager at the sorting office.

it's a right pain to write 'not known at this address' and to post back on every single one.

Is it really ?

Just let them pile up for a week or so and drop them in the letter box.

Just let them pile up for a week or so and drop them in the [s]letter box[/s] bin

They make great fire starting material....

Return them to sender. Junk mail companies don't want to pay anymore for their postage costs than they have to and 9 times outta 10, the name will be removed from the list.

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Just let them pile up for a week or so and drop them in the bin

Yes. That's certainly the best way to make sure they don't stop arriving.

Write Gone Away on each item ,leave on doorstep or put them in a pillar box. Postie will either get them the next day and do what we call "kill them off",that's where we have to put a sticker on them and tick a box for the reason they have been refused/undelivered. Its a pain in the ass for the postie as on average I will have between 40/60 a day to do

Talk to your postie and he might mark the envelopes himself and return them for you. Depends on the route you are on and how regularly you get the same postie. Otherwise a note on the door saying no post for the previous tenant would do the same trick.

Send it back. The old (deceased) owner used to receive shedloads daily. Over time its gone down to one every two weeks due to me writing 'no longer at address/return to sender'

Cheers
I'll see if I can catch the postie and ask him

I'll see if I can catch the postie and ask him

Maybe the run up to Xmas might not be the best in timing!! 😉

It has to be endorsed by the occupant @ the address or the postie could be done for willful delay of mail(serious conduct issue)if he takes it back to the Delivery Office.
Royal Mail bosses are doing their level best to sack fulltime posties and this is one of the main ways of doing that.
Rich

having lived in a lot of rental places for the first 3 months I do not known, after that it's bin - thats for everything (bank/untilities the lot) if you can't sort your crap out it's your problem. As for junk mail a bit of return/not known but then bin.

You'd be unlucky to go to prison....

After being in current house for 2 years and sending a lot on to previous owners new address or back to sender, I just bin it now...

..after checking how his pension is performing and how the donkey he sponsors is progressing 😆

Open them, if they have prepaid envelopes inside, then post all the stuff back to them.

2 years pfft we still occasionally get new business mail for the previous owner of the house we've lived in for 10 years. I just do the "no longer at this address" thing and post them again.

I write retunr to sender on them and put them in the post. If Im in a bad mood I put a load into the preparid evelopes that come with them and post that off to where ever they go.

Open mail, take out pre-paid envelope, selotape to old shoe box, add 1 house brick and original mail marked "not here", seal up and deposit in bulk collection post box. Mailing company gets bill for about £15, your junk mail problem evaporates overnight.

I get these all the time, I just bin them. I've not signed for bugger all, so far as I'm concerned they never existed.

Open mail, take out pre-paid envelope, selotape to old shoe box, add 1 house brick and original mail marked "not here", seal up and deposit in bulk collection post box. Mailing company gets bill for about £15, your junk mail problem evaporates overnight.

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Brilliant. What's a bulk collection box though?

Big post box with a tipping hopper like a small charity clothing bin, Royal snail have them on industrial estates and business parks.