Postal Letter

What can I do about mail coming to my apartement that is not for me?

I've lived there for over a year and I've been getting mail the entire time for people who lived there up to two or three years ago, and it's alot of mail.

Public Comments

1. catch your postman and tell him or her
2. go to the USPS and tell them the no longer live at what ever your adress is. or find them and re-route the mail to them
3. well you could see who it if for and deliver it to them or give it to the mail man when he comes again! i guess!
4. Take a pen and write..."No longer at this address" on it and put it back in your mail box for the mailman. After a while, he or she will get the hint!
5. take it back to the post office and tell them to only send your mail.
6. cross out your address on it and stick it in the mailbox w/ the flag up.
7. Notify the post office of the error, if that doesn't help use any credit cards sent and burn he rest of the mail.
8. Have a bin for lost/undelivered mails...you can toss those in.
9. take them all to your local post office, also if u happen to know what time you mail gets there, wait on the postman and tell him about it. the mail might belong to a previous tenant who lived in your apartment
10. pixi, I have the same problem and I'm in a duplex. I don't know if this is the best answer, but I just kept bringing a pen with me when I went out to the mailbox and wrote "Addressee No Longer a Resident" on the parcel and after a good long while, the mailman got the picture and I haven't heard from the old tenant's mailers since.
11. That means that mail is stuff that the other people haven't cared enough to forward. As long as it's not obviously important, I would toss it (I know your not supposed to do that- but what the heck else can you do). What I did with important stuff I got at my old apartment was take it to the post office (a whole bunch of it one day) and said "please forward this". What came back to me, I tossed or wrote Return to Sender, addressee no longer at this address" on it.
12. Write - UNKNOWN AT THIS ADDRESS - RETURN TO SENDER. on the envelope. DO not open it and had it to the mail man for return You might also notify the Post Office that these people moved without forwarding address and stop the mail from coming to you place. Barring either of these choices - throw it out.
13. That happens to me, also. I usually write "not here" on the outside of the envelope and put it back in the mailbox. It is up to the senders to get their act together. If that doesn't help, contact your local post office and see if there is a form that can be filled out stopping anything coming to your house that isn't addressed to you personally or "current resident". Good luck!
14. not much, you can call or write the post office telling them to stop sending the mail and write no longer at this address.
15. all you do is draw a line through the mailing address. soon they will stop.
16. I've been living in the same apartment for 5 years... I ended up spending $10 for a STAMP that says "Addressee not at this address: Return to Sender" !! Then I just drop it back in the box for the postman to retrieve... It's slowed the flow down to 2-3 pieces per month. Throwing incorrectly addressed 1st Class mail out is illegal (besides being rude). JUST one more reason for folks to fill out their Mail Forwarding form at the Post Office when they move !!