My father died in 1997. Yup, he’s still getting mail.
Same here. 1995.
I gather that this is the sort of thing that may have worked sometimes, once upon a time. But as the method got more popular, “they” eventually lost their sense of humor about it and put their foot down.
When I bought my house, I got TONS of mail for the previous owners. For about a year, I wrote RTS or “Moved, no forwarding address” and dropped it back in the mail. When that didn’t slow it down, at all, I started writing ‘RTS DECEASED’. That stopped a some of it. But I was still getting quite a bit. Eventually (multiple years later at this point), I just started tossing it all. I figure anything important that they need, they’ll call the sender to see what’s going on and correct the address.
As far as ‘previous homeowners’ go, they were pretty lazy when it came to moving out. I could have, literally, filled a dumpster with the amount of crap they left laying around the house, including over 30 empty paint cans. Not ‘just a little left in case I need to touch up’, like brush strokes on the bottom of the can empty. For over a month after the closing date, they kept coming back to grab stuff they hadn’t taken yet…including a fucking TREE. They came back and dug up a fucking tree*.
Between all that and everything else, I really doubt they even put in a change of address request with the PO.
Oh, and I recently ran across one of them on facebook. She’s an ER nurse and Covid denier.
*We knew that before closing, but it was still odd…and they should have done it, ya know, before closing, not two weeks later.
Ref my earlier comments about the DMA stop-the-junk website, I have more than once made entries there in the name of former owners at my current address. Each time I move I do the same thing with my new address and my new former owners’ name(s).
Because the entry is specific to an address, you’re not interfering with the former owners’ ability to receive all the junk mail they want at their new address, whatever it may be.
Works great. Can recommend.
And as a reminder for the folks receiving junk mail for deceased relatives, this works for them too, and better than writing “deceased” or whatever on the mailpiece & hoping the sender(s) get the message.
I pour a large single malt (not a wee dram but a grand dram), which I sip as I email, chat, and call the offending companies. Takes time, but generally works.
Next week I’ll be performing this function for my MIL with mild dementia, who is being exploited by many “charities” that are for-profit, are Republicans in disguise, or already get money from her under a different arm. I have been put in charge of all her solicitation letters, which she’s saving in a bag for my next visit. She unwittingly donated thousands of dollars to fake “veterans” and “save social security” charities last year in addition to the covert Republican solicitations. I’ll also alert her retirement home about what I locate so they can alert other residents about scams.
Did you know that this link cannot be returned to this page, and a screen-sized popup about the GRE takes over?
I like to save my envelopes that have plastic windows in them, and stuff them into the postage-paid envelopes. It probably doesn’t make any points but it feels oddly satisfying for me.
The worst types are, say you buy a new toilet seat, and next thing you know you have 15 ads crawling on your social media feed telling you to buy more toilet seats. Do they not realise my toilet can only hold one toilet seat?!
After I bought eyeglasses online, for months I got targeted ads from that and other eyeglass companies.
Maybe I should have a different pair for every day of the week…
I opted out of targeted ads from Outbrain, which has helped.