Author Topic: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.  (Read 982 times)

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Re: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.
« Reply #15 on: September 08, 2018, 03:08:23 pm »
We believe there were at least two families living in our house prior to our purchasing it.  We were receiving mail for many names for months after we bought our house and also receiving phone calls from bill collectors and skip tracers for these same individuals.  We realized fairly quickly that they must have skipped out on every bill they owed and did not have their mail forwarded by the post office.  In fact, we even got a phone call from their realtor asking where their mail was a few weeks after we moved in!  I told her that all their mail was returned to the post office and they needed to put a forwarding order in.  I honestly don't know what she believed was going to be different about that situation.

After several years of this, and continuing to get mail for not only these individuals but other individuals who owned this house over the years (it's over 40 years old), I finally went to our local post office and asked to speak to the postmaster.  He gave me a form to fill out with all of the names that *should* be delivered.  Then they put a sticker inside our mailbox that has just our last names, plus my maiden name and previous married name (just in case).  This has fixed the problem unless we get a sub who doesn't look.

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Re: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.
« Reply #16 on: September 08, 2018, 04:13:46 pm »
We keep getting mail for past residents (bought the house & moved in during the summer of 2005) -even with a sticker on the inside showing that only our last name mail should be delivered.

I marked "return to sender" on a letter to an out of state address earlier this week.  It's been thirteen years, durn it!

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Re: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.
« Reply #17 on: September 08, 2018, 05:45:11 pm »
I finally went to our local post office and asked to speak to the postmaster.  He gave me a form to fill out with all of the names that *should* be delivered.  Then they put a sticker inside our mailbox that has just our last names, plus my maiden name and previous married name (just in case).  This has fixed the problem unless we get a sub who doesn't look.


That didn't work for me. I think they file those forms in the trash at my post office.

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« Reply #18 on: October 20, 2020, 01:47:56 pm »
I once got a notice from my insurance that a psychologist in Californiawas submitting an invoice to my insurance for treating my son.  Only problem is we live in Pennsylvania and have never set foot in California.  Also, this psychologist specialized in adolescent treatment and BeagleBoy was only five at the time.

I had to call my insurance since there was no contact information for the psychologist and explain that we had never been to California and BB had never seen any type of therapist.  Woman on the phone asked if maybe BB had seen him at a different time and I point blank asked "why would I send my 5-year-old to an adolescent psychiatrist in California when we live in Pennsylvania?".  Her reply was "Oh. Right. We'll fix it.  Sorry.".
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« Reply #19 on: October 22, 2020, 03:13:34 pm »
My elderly dog is nearly 16 and has disk degeneration in his spinal column, making it difficult for him to walk. He's still spry and alert and in otherwise good health, but his back legs won't do what he wants them to. So I went on Amazon and got him a pet stroller, so that he could come along when I walk the other dog who, at 4, bounds along a lot faster than poor Lucas can manage anymore.

Got the stroller, put it together, and happily took both dogs for walkies, which Lucas absolutely loves.*

What did I start getting in the mail? Baby stuff. Diapers, formula, coupons for baby things, ads for baby furniture. Mind you, the stroller was clearly labeled PET STROLLER, but I'm still being inundated with baby stuff.

*He's gotten spoiled. Because I'm working from home, Lucas has decided that anytime I put pants on, he should go for a walk.
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Re: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.
« Reply #20 on: October 23, 2020, 08:10:31 am »
My elderly dog is nearly 16 and has disk degeneration in his spinal column, making it difficult for him to walk. He's still spry and alert and in otherwise good health, but his back legs won't do what he wants them to. So I went on Amazon and got him a pet stroller, so that he could come along when I walk the other dog who, at 4, bounds along a lot faster than poor Lucas can manage anymore.

Got the stroller, put it together, and happily took both dogs for walkies, which Lucas absolutely loves.*

What did I start getting in the mail? Baby stuff. Diapers, formula, coupons for baby things, ads for baby furniture. Mind you, the stroller was clearly labeled PET STROLLER, but I'm still being inundated with baby stuff.

*He's gotten spoiled. Because I'm working from home, Lucas has decided that anytime I put pants on, he should go for a walk.

Personally, I think Lucas is right.

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Re: s/o of Wrong Numbers...Mis-sent Mail.
« Reply #21 on: October 23, 2020, 10:37:43 pm »
Back when I was working at a branch of the DMV, I was served with papers demanding payment for a debt for an individual who supposedly "lived" in my office (it said place of residence was the office address).

I called the collection agency, and I could tell that the receptionist thought I was lying and trying to get out of paying the debt. (She was polite, but the disbelief was there). She put me through to the person in charge of the account. That woman explained politely that she had to verify what I was saying. No problem. I was on hold for less than a minute while she googled the address, and then she came back on, apologizing. Again, not a problem.

Now, there was also a Chinese restaurant two doors down in the strip mall. We did have employees of the restaurant who wanted to use the restaurant address for their driver's license and ID cards. But in my state, the law is extremely specific. It must be a residential address. At my branch, we would not allow it. A month goes by, and we start receiving driver's licenses and IDs for people with Asian names, supposedly living in our office. The street numbers for the DMV branch and the restaurant were extremely similar (one ended in 56, and the other in 65), and all these applicants had gone to a different DMV office and attempted to use the restaurant address as their place of residence, but they messed it up and gave the DMV street number instead. (The other DMV was over 20 miles away and didn't realize). It ended up in our Investigators suspending all licenses and IDs using DMV or restaurant address until they furnished a true residential address they could prove (utility bills, etc). It turned into a major scandal for the restaurant because the Investigators found the staff defrosting frozen chicken by laying it on wooden pallets in the sun next to the dumpster.

Anyway, I did warn the bill collection agency that since the person they were trying to serve had a Chinese name, they might want to check out the restaurant, but that they needed to work fast, because the health department was trying to shut them down permanently.
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