I keep getting post sent to my address. It started off with just the bills, then I got this guys wage slips, now I've gotten a Visa card and a pin number.
Any idea what I should do? Someone told me I can get in trouble for opening someone elses post, so I daren't send it back.

contact the bank concerned and explain it was opened in error. Keeping the stuff is far more illegal!

I'd get in touch with crimestoppers/police too. It sounds like a fraud case.

Originally posted by OceanWave
I keep getting post sent to my address. It started off with just the bills, then I got this guys wage slips, now I've gotten a Visa card and a pin number.
Any idea what I should do? Someone told me I can get in trouble for opening someone elses post, so I daren't send it back.

I would ring the credit card issuer and explain the situation. By the way, how do you know there is a card inside the envelope and a PIN if you haven't already opened it?

Daft question, but have you told the Post Office? I got loads of mis-addressed mail, told the Postie and they gave me a load of envelopes to save them all up and send 'em back in. Mind you, it took blooming ages to filter through.

Also, get a nice fat marker pen and scrawl "not at this address" on them (front and back) before sending them off. Otherwise, they sometimes mysteriously reappear.

sorry, that's what I meant; that i'd opened it and didn't want to get caught out somehow by opening it.

Feargal's idea is best. Contact the post office and they'll deal with it for you. The guy probably didn't bother the re-direct his mail.
If anything else comes, don't open it. Because if anything goes missing (ie his visa pin) you'll get the blame without a doubt.

You could always burn it, then deny all knowledge!!

Seriously though, it does seem a bit dodgy if there's financial stuff coming in.

Most mail of that nature has an "If undelivered return to...." on the back. You don't have to pay postage. Whilst waiting for the Post Office to sort it out try returning the unopened mail (yes, it is still an offence to open mail not addressed to you) to the senders.

As already stated just right 'not at this address' on it and dump it back in the post box - make sure it's big enough for the guy sorting it it to notice it :)

Tape it up and put opened in error on along with not at this address return to sender making sure that you cross out the address on the envelope because otherwise as someone has said it may well come back.

Personally though I would give the company a ring too because this happened to me the other year when we first moved I even got things from the DSS - sounds like someone may be using your address and this needs sorting because they could obtain credit and mess up your credit rating.

thanx for advice people, but alarm can be switched off now as i found out that my landlord knows the name on the envelope.

apparently he's a boxer, so i'd better return it fast, as i'm sweating like a nun in a cucumber field.

Originally posted by OceanWave
thanx for advice people, but alarm can be switched off now as i found out that my landlord knows the name on the envelope.

apparently he's a boxer, so i'd better return it fast, as i'm sweating like a nun in a cucumber field.

Just coz your landlord knows him doesn't give them the right to use your address. It still sounds fishy.

You didn't give those bank cards to the landlord did you?!?!?

Ugh, Royal Mail are retarded, they regularly screw up.

Originally posted by Rich
Ugh, Royal Mail are retarded, they regularly screw up.

If it's addressed to his house then they haven't screwed up have they. They are paid to deliver as addressed.