I have been receiving annoying bank letters on a regular basis for a previous apartment tenant. Google says I can simply mark them ‘return to sender’ and that should help make them stop. Unfortunately my first attempt at this appears to have failed. The letter i marked as ‘Return to Sender’ is coming back to me, what did I do wrong?
I edited the image to hide the name/address of the original recipient. Perhaps I need to actually black-out that section on the original letter too? But if I do, how will anyone know who moved without opening the letter?
We had this problem after moving some years ago. In the end, I put the letter in another envelope with a note: "This person no longer lives at this address," and no stamp. In this country, the recipient has to pay for unstamped mail.
Unfortunately, most letters are strictly machine-sorted and nobody is going to notice a notation on the envelope. The envelopes are delivered to the carrier from the plant already sorted in delivery order and all a carrier is going to do is riffle through the top of the stack and not pay much attention to the individual envelopes.
First, cross out the bar codes (as you seem to have done). Make sure it is illegible. And cross out the human-readable characters to the left of the bar code, too.
Then draw a horizontal line through the recipient’s address and city/state/zip so that when the envelope gets scanned again, it cannot be read. This will send the envelope to the reject bin where it will get manual attention and prevent it from being re-delivered.
I have been able to hand them to my letter carrier, and tell them about it. My local one promised to remember not to deliver it any more.
At mom’s house, we got one we’ve never seen before – that pissed me off – we’ve lived at this address since the house was built in 1979, there’s no way this is a previous address. Someone has deliberately given out address, in their name, to a bank. That’s something like – but only something like – fraud. I mean, they’re not stealing our identity or our money, but they are using something of mine.
My former neighbor/letter carrier/family friend said she’d take care of it for me. With the caveat that, the post office does not care, at all, about this sort of problem. Its just going in the dead letter bin. Its not getting rushed back to the bank, to address this crucial issue.
Not in the United States they’re not. Maybe you are thinking about the ink on the bottom of checks.
There is nothing invisible on Business Reply Envelopes.
Stamps 10 cents or more in value have invisible (under normal light) phosphorescent ink and red postage meter ink has a red fluorescent trace, but these are optical, not magnetic markers.
I recently had an envelope delivered to my address, 1234 N. Main St. Unfortunately, it was legibly addressed to 1234 S. Main St., including the correct zip code for that address. I wrote the problem on the envelope and put it back in a mail box. It was re-delivered to me. This was repeated twice, and I finally had to take it to the Post Office.
I always draw a big diagonal line through the name and address (bottom left to top right) and write next to it “Not at this address.” That seems to work for me.
Am I allowed to submit a change-of-address form at the post office on behalf of the former tenant?
One website claims this is OK:
Obviously.com explainsthat all you have to do is head to the Post Office and get a change of address card (theonline formwon’t work because it requires a forwarding address), fill it out for each unique last name, and instead of a forwarding address, note “Moved, Left No Forwarding Address.” Sign it yourself and write “form filled in by current resident, [Your Name], agent for the above.” That last part is important. Hand it right to your carrier, or to a clerk at the post office - How Can I Stop Getting Mail Addressed to Someone Else?
