Need suggestions for fake ID address

[manhattan93]

Hi all,

I have been receiving mails, bills in my address with stranger’s name on it in the past 6 months. They keep coming. I tried to ignore it but recently I think I have to do something, because this person is totally criminal. Any suggestions what to do ? I keep the letters now for any evidence.

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[seaopgal]

You can file a complaint with the enforcement arm of the US Postal Service:

https://postalinspectors.uspis.gov/contactus/filecomplaint.aspx

Or, preliminarily, call/visit your local Post Office and ask for advice.

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[owen]

You shouldn’t hold on to mail that is not yours. Write “Not at this address” on it and leave it for your postal carrier.

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[trickycoolj]

The former resident of my mom’s house did that about 5-7 years after she bought it. The guys parents were the former owners and rented it to him. He was a complete slimeball and his mother was not honest about the condition of the house at sale. Suddenly collections letters in his name started showing up all those years later so my mom forwarded them to his parents house. It was like he was giving out his old address to avoid his debts.

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[datamuse]

When I write “Not at this address” it comes back to me anyway…I used to get mail for former residents all the time. Finally stopped a few years ago.

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[linda]

We still get mail for individuals who were the last renters, even though we’ve been in the same location for seven years. I always write: Return to Sender, no longer at this address. We also get mail for names we don’t recognize at all, possibly folks who were room mates of the last renters. In these cases, I write: Return to Sender, no such person at this address.

I also make sure to use a marker to black out the bar coding on the envelope so it doesn’t go back through a postal reader and wind up, once again, in my mail box.

These tactics have resulted in a huge reduction in the volume of mail for folks who are no longer at our address. It’s also probably gotten at least one person off the voter rolls since their voter registration appeared in our mail box at a time when we’d been in the house for over five years.

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[Halyn]

I keep re-reading this thread, trying to figure out what the problem is–why would you do anything with mis-addressed mail other than write “Return to Sender” or “Not at this address” on it and go on about your day? Then a line in the OP caught my eye: “… I think I have to do something, because this person is totally criminal.” Um, OP, are you OPENING and READING mail that is not addressed to you? If so, that’s a huge violation of privacy, it’s unethical and it’s rude. The contents of those letters are in no way ANY of your business. You need to take this mail to the post office and hand it over, and future mail to this person needs a “Return to Sender” written on it, and back into the box.

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[2 Much Whine]

Halyn, I think (this is just a guess) that the original poster is receiving mail and bills at her/his address that has been addressed to someone else. It sounds like they are assuming that some criminal out there is inappropriately using the address for some sort of criminal activity. It sounds like they are under the impression that the unknown person is opening accounts (and generating bills) using their address. You could be right but I highly doubt that the poster is opening and reading mail that is not theirs. I could be wrong.

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[Costanza]

If you haven’t done it this year, it might be worth getting a free credit report, just in case it catches anything suspicious. You can get a free report every year

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