So why haven’t you put up a locking mailbox for which only you have the key?
The next person that walks into your place looking for a vacation rental needs to be charged with breaking and entering, too.
I don’t get it either. If he uses your address for his business, won’t he end up missing out on basically anything anyone mails to him regarding that business. I don’t see how that could work. What’s the point of giving out a (slightly) wrong address?
Could you fill out and submit a change of address form for him? And hey, I know this is a wild suggestion, but maybe try locking your door if you don’t want strangers barging in.
Changing someone else’s address will get you in trouble with the post office big time.
If he’s actually taking mail out of your mailbox, don’t bother with any of the above.
Report him to the local postmaster. They will prosecute if he doesn’t stop.
But yeah, why wouldn’t you lock your door if people are walking in?
I’m thinking you could post one of those “Workplace Safety” Signs on your door that says something like:
When the police show up, certainly let them know where the dude lives; when they ask why he uses the address, it’s totally fair to offer your theories about how he’s trying to make it harder for them to serve restraining orders on him; just make it clear that it’s your speculation, and be respectful about it. Each individual cop may not realize the pattern, but there’s no harm in your suggesting it to them, I think.
We don’t have mail delivered in my town. We have P.O. Boxes. So the mail is not a problem.
Ups and Federal Express have it figured out.
So the guy put the wrong address on restraining order paperwork? Seems like that must break some sort of law.
Umm… Whoever requested the restraining order put the wrong address on the paperwork. It would be very unusual to have a restraining order taken out against yourself.
Unless the restraining order was an injunction against ~Olives~ to cease and desist using EvilNeighbor’s address for his/her own purposes…
I’m beginning to smell a rat in this thread.
Hey, 5 days rat-bite free!
I think I saw that on Bates Motel.
I don’t know how restraining orders work or if my address is on the restraining order. I just know that in the past month a policeman has shown up here twice looking for the neighbor. I didn’t know it was about a restraining order until I looked up the neighbor’s name in the judiciary web site.
I have had the police show up here before looking for the neighbor. At that time I just assumed he had called the police and dispatch sends out to the address in relation to the phone number.
It sounds like your problem is with the phone company. Call them and explain that the address they have for his number is incorrect (I assume you have his number). It’s not a county problem since it’s the phone company’s records.
Contact your local 9-1-1 center and police about this even if you do feel like it’s “his problem” if he wants an ambulance. Do you really want to be woken up at at 3:30 in the morning because either a) he called 911 with a heart attack or b) he’s wanted for murder? (or bonus point c, because he called 911 because he’s being murdered?)
This reminds me of some of the problems my parents had with people printing a wrong/illegible number on business cards.
Person one was a person who ran a lawnmower repair (IIRC) business. His customers were distinctive for their urban/semi-rural poor person accent. After receiving a number of calls for this person, my father got tired of it. When he got the next call, he put on his best version of this accent and said “This is Leroy, I’ll be right over!”. The caller said “You’re not Leroy!” and hung up. I believed this stopped the calls for this particular business.
Person two runs a propane gas business, and decided to put a little cross in the zero that’s in his phone number, because he’s also a preacher. Oddly, that little cross makes the zero look like an eight to anyone whose eyesight is not the best, and Mom gets a lot of calls whenever a cold front comes through. She’s tried to get him to change his cards, but he hasn’t yet. I am encouraging her to tell people he’s out of business, and suggest a competitor.
The only way I would do anything to change the situation would be to hire a lawyer. Calling the phone company wouldn’t solve all the problems because he has his business all over the web with my address. We have other legal issues between us which I won’t go into. He is just a nasty spiteful man.
or d) he calls 911, responders show up to your place instead, you say, “I dunno.” and he dies. You WILL get sucked into a world of shit if that happens. Might get out of it alright, but you’ll be needlessly covered in shit for a while.
In what way does this benefit him other than to piss you off because he’s a jerk?
You say that you use PO boxes, so no mail comes directly to your house…
Is he running a scam business? Cheating on taxes? Doing something at his house that is quasi-legal? Why do the police want to see him so often?
Why on earth would Olive get in “a world of shit”? Is he supposed to track neighbor’s whereabouts at all times of the day to ensure that help is sent promptly when needed? I just can’t see where anyone would automatically think that it’s Olive’s fault if the responders show up to the wrong house:
- Olive did not make the call to 911
- Olive did not tell the responders where to go
- Olive does not track the whereabouts of his neighbor 24/7, nor is he under any obligation to do so
- Upon further investigation, it will be seen that the neighbor falsified his own address anyway, so he’s a dumbass.
I don’t know the answer to how it benefits him. I do know he is the type to do things just to be spiteful.
No one in my town gets mail delivered. Everyone must use a P.O. Box.