Fun Thread - Mail intended for a previous homeowner

[Disney Ella]

The people who lived here before the previous owners had some trouble with the law. We still get legal notices for them, and they would have last lived here 18 years ago. About ten years ago, the police stopped by and wanted to know if we knew those people. It seems they were drug dealers and the police stopped by frequently when they lived in our house.

 

[UrsulasMyHero]

I've lived in this house for nearly 2 years, and we still get mail for the Prevatte family. More specifically A summons for the son, who apparently had a DUI, and we're often getting bank info for the daughter, who's name is DARLYN.. yea DARLYN... Intersting name that. We even had a private investigator come by.... I had to explain that we didn't know them, we'd lived here for a year and a half at the time, that we didn't know where they'd moved to.

I wonder how long the people who buy the house in Feburary will get our mail for...

 

[binny]

well I sent one. My stepgrandmother, whom I write to/hear from once a year at Christmas, moved a few doors down into another condo apparently I accidently one to her old condo number. I sent her a card and got it back with a rather nasty " She hasnt lived here since 1995!!!!"

gee sorry.


It isnt like I know her at all.


At least I TRIED.

 

[Sk8Leigh]

We get mail for the previous owner (always the same thing, some kind of business in England), and we moved in in 1986! We get something from them a few times a year.

 

[Chicago526]

Our previous owned died a few years before we bought the house. A grandson lived there between her death and our buying it, but must have either forwarded his mail or never got any. We've only gotten junk mail with her name, and nothing in his name.

 

[PaulaSue]

We lived here over 8 years, last year was the last time we got the gay sex-toy cataolge that we used to get every few months in the old owners' name.

 

[always quiet]

I got you all beat!!

We moved in with my dad in 1995 to help take care of him (he's 86 and has health issues). We are living in the house I grew up in. I am now 41. My parents bought the house in 1966. Would you believe we still get mail addressed to the previous owners?!! It's from their insurance company as well. I would of hoped that in the last 39 years that Prudential would of at least updated their records that the Lords do not live here anymore! I used to put "Return to Sender - Moved over 3 decades ago!" but it doesn't work. They keep coming. The mail man told me not to return them anymore...they are obviously stupid!

 

[wvjules]

I used to get 'catalogs' for the previous owner. I haven't gotten one in a while though.

 

[KathyFP]

I recieved mail mall in chinese

 

[JCJRSmith]

We have been in our house for 5 years and still get mail for the Baker family, from whom we bought the house.

It isn't the mail, though - it is the phone calls. I have lived in Pennsylvania for 7 years, having moved here from Virginia. I have lived in two apartments and one house here and have had the same phone number for 7 years. Some woman named "Ann" must have had the number before me, because I still get calls for her. When I ask the caller what number they were calling, they tell me my number. I tell them, "I have had that number for 7 years - you have old info."

If I go into Circuit City and make a purchase and they ask me for my number, the first one on the list to come up is "Ann."

It usually goes like this:

Clerk: "may i have your phone number please."
Me: XXX-XXXX
Clerk: "Are you Ann?"

I am a 45 year old man with a goatee, and I have to ask them, "Do I LOOK like an Ann to you?"

 

[minniecarousel]

We've lived here for 6 years now and still get mail for the previous owner. No Christmas cards though.

 

[DisneyStar006]

We moved in to our home 18 years ago and we STILL get mail for the previous owners

Nothing intersting though, just advertising from a furniture store

 

[jackskellingtonsgirl]

We don't get personal mail for the people who used to live in our apartment, though we got quite a bit when we first moved in. We moved in just over 2 years ago.

BUT...
One of my good friends sent DS a Christmas present this year from Amazon. She is a friend I have known since high school (17 years) but she lives in another state. She was having a brain freeze when she gave the address to Amazon and told them our OLD address! They e-mailed her that the package had been delivered. I told her I never got it. We talked it through for a minute and then I realized she sent it to the old apartment! I called the leasing office first thing the next day but they didn't have the package, and they said nobody from that unit had signed for a package in the past few weeks. The leasing office called the tenant and asked them about my package, but of course they said they haven't seen it. I think maybe the DVDs were small enough to fit in the regular mailbox, so the tenants of that apartment scored 2 free DVDs! JERKS!

What would have been so difficult about bringing the package down to the office and explaining that it wasn't for them? Amazon was awesome and ended up replacing the DVDs for us, but I am furious that people are so dishonest!

 

[Poohnatic]

I'm there with you on the phone number thing. In Maryland, I had the same phone number for 8 years. I got calls for a local builder (who hadn't had the number for at least 10 years prior), the phone company and some guy named Larry. Larry's colleague would call and leave his schedule and tell Larry to call back-but never left a number. Finally, he called one day when I was at home and I told him the reason Larry hadn't called him back on any message he'd left since 1988 was because he'd left them on PAT and SUE's machine (our message), not Larry.

Suzanne

 

[msdznyduck]

I am a 45 year old man with a goatee, and I have to ask them, "Do I LOOK like an Ann to you?"

We have lived in our house since 1990. We still get mail from the previous owners. They were the original owner of the house, we are the 2nd owners. We also get mail for someone who has never lived here, but at our address. If it looks important, we just mark it 'not at this address' and put it in the mailbox. Junk mail goes into the trash.

 

[gshanny]

My parents divorced in 1979. My mom died almost 2 years ago and my dad still gets mail for her once in a while. I haven't lived there for over 17 years and he gets mail addressed to me using my maiden name and sometimes my married name, which I never lived there using that name.
We still get mail for the previous owner who has been out of this house for almost 2 years. Our last house had mail show up for the previous owner about 6 years after they moved. The owner before that had mail come once and she died quite some time ago.
Scary is when my sister moved out and did an address change. My dad wasn't getting his credit card statements. They were being sent to her new address. No one ever called his credit card to change the address since it wasn't ever supposed to be changed.
Fun thing about our new address is the house on the street before us has the same address as us minus the word Terrace. It is not fun.

 

[kbkids]

My parents get mail for DH's brother who is now deceased.

DH never lived with them, and his brother certainly didn't. Have no clue how that happened!