Some kind of loan agency called Triad Financial Corporation (they have a website) has spent the past few months sending me somebody’s statements? Bills? Who knows what? —with my address on it.
I called the company and told them that no such people have ever lived at this address. They told me just to write Return to Sender on the envelopes and drop them back in the mail.
Well, I did that. I’ve done it four times already. I have also emailed the company twice and written them a letter; they never replied to any of these messages. I even suggested that they call the people in question and ask them for their address so they can get it straightened out.
I just got another statement today! I am returning it yet again. Fellow Dopers, I am at my wit’s end. How many more times must I explain the problem to them? How can I get these idiots to stop sending me someone else’s documents?
You can’t. You might be able to convince your mail carrier that these are not yours, and he can stop delivering them. That’s a win-win. You don’t get mail, and dumbass company fails to get their bills delivered.
I’ve been in my house for over three years and still get notices for the past owners. The bills have gone to collections and now the collection agencies call me, too. It’s annoying. I’ve been trying to be helpful by returning the mail and informing the callers, but now I’ve given up and just throw the mail out. I tell the callers “They moved over three years ago, I don’t know them, never met them, am not related to them and don’t kbnow where they are so you can now quit calling here”, but that hasn’t been very sucessful yet, either. Plus, I have to say that all real fast before they hang up on me.
I get all kinds of crap for the people who lived here before. I know they put in a change of address, but in my case it’s the post office’s fault. Apparently, our neighborhood doesn’t have a postal carrier assigned to it. They’ve got some kind of rotation set up where a carrier who has finished their regular route does our rout too. This means that every time we get one of them to realize that the “Jonses” don’t live here anymore, we get a new carrier. I don’t know how it works, but somehow, the carriers never check to see if there are forwards in place. I get so frustrated! These people get TONS of mail too. I’m thinking of getting a stamp made that says “No longer at this address” so I don’t have to keep writing it on 15-20 letters a day. grrrr.
Calls to the post office are not very helpful. They just keep telling me to return it. I bet it’s more frustrating for the Jonses though. They must always get their mail several days late.
Forwarding orders expire after a year, so it’s the former occupant’s fault if it’s been that long that you’ve lived there. Mail carriers are pretty much required to deliver mail that’s addressed to an address, unless they have a forwarding order on file, so it’s not entirely their fault either. You could put up a little sign in/next to your mailbox with “Not an Occupant:” and the surname(s) in question; that might help.
No it’s not. Why should you care more about these bills than the company that’s sending them? You sound like an exceptionally decent person, but stop sweating this.
You’re right. I just have an incredibly low tolerance for incompetence and ineptitude, especially when the problem continues even after repeated requests for a fix.
Anything I get from Triad Financial from this point on goes directly into the shredder.
We get so many other people’s mail. The people we bought the place from, the people here before them, the people who had the place before THEM, and 2 of my brother’s ex-girlfriends. It’s not uncommon to have 4 or 5 pieces of mail in the mailbox and NONE of them are for us.