Nice article, Tessa. I should add that many tenants as management agents think that we will act as their postal shipping service. If we did this for every tenant who asked us, we would pick up the mail and forward it all the time instead of doing our actual job! So it`s nice to see someone else reminding tenants and landlords that it`s their responsibility to make sure their mail reaches them, not the agent`s tenants or subsequent tenants. A claim would almost certainly not succeed. Specifically, the message confirms that your experience is probably pretty typical. Under the national lettermail system, you can send a letter free of charge within 24 hours of receiving it. In practice, the 24-hour rule is not applied. But every time you send a letter (and even if you do it within 24 hours), it won`t be a priority. It is very likely that it will take about 10 days to reach the new goal. Opening and destroying emails intended for someone else is a crime. If you are accused of accepting someone else`s mail and are prosecuted, you should immediately speak to a criminal defense lawyer to find out your options. Have you received emails from a former tenant and don`t know what to do with them? This article discusses your obligations in such situations. According to U.S.
law, mail processing is regulated by the United States Code §â ̄1708. The law provides for a fine and up to five years in prison for anyone who « buys, receives or hides mail that does not belong to him or that illegally possesses it. » However, since this is a federal law, some states set their own specific penalties. For example, Texas states that mismanaging emails from fewer than ten locations is simply a misdemeanor, while falsifying mail from 50 or more locations is a first-degree crime punishable by five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. If you have returned multiple mail items for the same person and are still receiving them, you may need to be more direct. Try writing a friendly note to your postal worker to let you know that the person no longer lives there and ask them to stop delivering the mail. The e-mail address cannot be subscribed. Please try again. There are two questions here – the mail that is addressed to the landlord and sent to the property while the tenant is occupied, and the mail that arrives for the tenants after they leave. « Our duty is to deliver the items to the address and not to the person whose name is written or printed on the item. » ftp://ftp.royalmail.com/Downloads/public/ctf/rm/rm_general_ts&cs_dec09_update.pdf If you accidentally open emails that do not belong to you, it is best to close the email and write « Return to Sender » and put it back in the mailbox. This is because it is illegal to prevent emails from reaching their intended recipient. Having the same problem here My husband asked if they could stop delivering it and they said no, it is named and processed, so they have to publish it legally. Do not throw away mail that is not addressed to you.
The principle was (and is) that you simply can`t expect a third-party intermediary (e.g., an innkeeper) to pay for sending a letter that has nothing to do with them, or for a recipient to pay the accumulated forwarding fees. It`s common to receive mail from previous tenants, especially if previous tenants haven`t changed their mailing address with the U.S. Postal Service. If this happens, you should write something like « return to sender », « wrong address » or « no one lives here anymore » and put it back in the mailbox. The postman takes care of it from there. >Tim Downie wrote:>>Everever I had to forward unopened mail, I would simply turn the envelope >> and put it back in a mailbox without paying more postage.>> >> Usually it works, even if a letter « bounced » earlier this week and >> returned home despite my attempts to erase the old address.>> >> What I was never sure, is the rules/laws regarding postal charges >>. I always assumed there was no charge for standard letters >>. >> >> I tried to Google, but it only seems to provide information about Royal`s paid forwarding service >> mail (to say after a move). >> >> What are the rules? Are they online somewhere?>> >> Tim>>I`ve always thought that (certainly for a letter) mail contracts > to the person and not to the address, so you should be able to > It`s generally okay to open another person`s email if you have permission from the intended recipient. Because federal law only regulates situations in which it is the « illegal receipt » of mail. If the recipient has given you your permission, you have the right to open the email. If you don`t know what to do with emails that aren`t yours, it`s probably easier than you think to get rid of them legally.
All you have to do is write « RETURN TO SENDERâ on the front of the envelope and put it back in your mailbox. Your postman will take care of you from there. In many cases, Swiss Post detects large quantities of returned mail and automatically stops delivering emails for that person to your address. It is important to note that the law requires intent; You should know that the email is not yours to be accused of a crime. If you open your email and accidentally open one that wasn`t addressed to you without realizing it, everything is probably fine. However, destroying or eliminating emails because they were addressed to someone else is proof that you knew the email wasn`t yours. This is more than enough reason to show the intention.
