Should we be worried?
15 July 2007, 12:14 PM
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Should we be worried?
I've recently started receiving mail addressed not to me but to someone else at my address.
All I did was write "not known at this address" and put it back in the post.
Then I got one addressed to the same guy, at an address VERY similar to mine, (the street name being only two letters different and being pronounced almost the same).
Apparently this new road is on a new estate. Great idea, North Lincs council!
I circled the different post code, wrote all over it and sent it on again.
THIS morning, I've just had the police here looking for this guy, with, once again, MY address.
They wouldn't tell me what they wanted with him, obviously, but it occurs to me that we COULD end up with real problems here, especilally if matey has any money problems. HIS credit score could end up attached to MY address.
Any advice, anyone?
Alcazar
All I did was write "not known at this address" and put it back in the post.
Then I got one addressed to the same guy, at an address VERY similar to mine, (the street name being only two letters different and being pronounced almost the same).
Apparently this new road is on a new estate. Great idea, North Lincs council!
I circled the different post code, wrote all over it and sent it on again.
THIS morning, I've just had the police here looking for this guy, with, once again, MY address.
They wouldn't tell me what they wanted with him, obviously, but it occurs to me that we COULD end up with real problems here, especilally if matey has any money problems. HIS credit score could end up attached to MY address.
Any advice, anyone?
Alcazar
15 July 2007, 01:15 PM
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Not really. But I've been in a similar situation. Work rang me (whilst in Cailifornia) to say that they had had a court order through for an 'attachment of earnnigs' - mine! WTF??? Turns out someone of my name had absconded after being guilty of council tax non-payment. A private d!ck had found me and just went through the courts. The non-payment was in Cornwall - I lived near Reading ....
Pain in the butt to get it sorted and no apology either.
I reckon you'll also get Indian takeaways for him delivered to you as well .... I do as there is another street of the same name a few miles away ... as long as they deliver your favourite and they've paid by card enjoy!
Dave
Pain in the butt to get it sorted and no apology either.
I reckon you'll also get Indian takeaways for him delivered to you as well .... I do as there is another street of the same name a few miles away ... as long as they deliver your favourite and they've paid by card enjoy!
Dave
15 July 2007, 02:10 PM
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My parents have had this for years, they live in ***** Avenue and there are three(!) avenues locally all with the same name. To make it more confusing half way along it becomes ***** Road but there is no definite boundary where it changes from avenue to road.
They resorted to having a sign made that is affixed next to their letterbox stating their surname and the fact that it is ***** Ave and not road but that hasn't stopped pizzas, taxis, ambulances.....all turning up.
They have never had any problems with credit scores though.
They resorted to having a sign made that is affixed next to their letterbox stating their surname and the fact that it is ***** Ave and not road but that hasn't stopped pizzas, taxis, ambulances.....all turning up.
They have never had any problems with credit scores though.
15 July 2007, 02:13 PM
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It might be worth having a chat with your local sorting office as well, if you are just writing 'Not known at this address' then the postie probably doesn't realise it is his mistake, you could write 'Delivered to incorrect address by postman' on it instead.
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I've had something similar. A woman moved into a house on a new development opposite mine. For some reason she thinks that her address is where I live. I started to receive bank statements etc. I sent them back "not at this address".
Then I had a mobile bille. I opened it thinking it was mine - same network! So I had her phone number, so I phoned her but couldn't get through.
I returned from holiday to find some very wet mothercare boxes outside (it'd been raining for 2 days and it was after a bank holiday!). I phoned her, she answered and collected her stuff, saying that she'd sort it..........
......... all good, until yesterday when I had a TV licience for her at my address. So, I give up, I may even cancel my own TV licience......
Then I had a mobile bille. I opened it thinking it was mine - same network! So I had her phone number, so I phoned her but couldn't get through.
I returned from holiday to find some very wet mothercare boxes outside (it'd been raining for 2 days and it was after a bank holiday!). I phoned her, she answered and collected her stuff, saying that she'd sort it..........
......... all good, until yesterday when I had a TV licience for her at my address. So, I give up, I may even cancel my own TV licience......
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I can understand your worry about it. Too many are only too pleased to put something down against you without properly researching the facts. When it comes out they seem to be able to put it down as an honest mistake with no comeback for them and not even an apology.
Hope it sorts out alright.
Les
Hope it sorts out alright.
Les
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