It’s been 3 years since we divorced. She changed her last name. I moved half-way across the country, and she moved to a new address.
Then, a few months ago, I started getting junk mail sent to her (with her old married name) at my new address.
What gives? And is there any way I can stop it?
Someone’s done a people search for you and looked at the family / roommate column?
Heh… the owner of the business I work for still gets mail catalogs from Macy’s/Chino’s/Vict. Secret/Abercrombie & Fitch at least once a week, and it’s addressed to his ex wife of 8 years ago. He’s still paying her a buttload of alimony (all their kids are 21+), this mail pisses him off to no end. 
I’m guessing it’s some marketing quirk, maybe some company linked your name with her name, and now they’re just sending out advertising material figuring your residence has a good chance of ordering something.
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If you wanna stop it, you probably gotta call whoever publish/distributes it. If you let them know you’re not interested in their products, I can’t imagine the company code would be to blow $.50-$1 to send you a catalog once a season.
I found a number online for the return address (SmartSource Direct), called them this morning and left a message on their voicemail to remove her name from their lists - not sure if it will do any good.
Is this a common thing? Do direct marketers really just take a stab at any name/address combo they find that may or may not be legit?
I get about one letter to my ex-wife a year. We’ve been divorced since 1982. (I’m at the same address, but still).
My wife received mail for about ten years. I’ve never been married.
Yup, I’m still getting mail for my father. He died in 1996.
My son once got a solicitation for a credit card with a $10,000 credit line. I sent it back in the conveniently postage-paid envelope with his handwritten and truthful reply, “No thanks, I’m six years old.”
I get a lot “cramming” on my phone bill. The scam name and my phone number and my address were, apparently erroneously, printed in a phone book some years ago.