Readers of news stories about the McStay family queried how the new occupier of their former rented home would know what was in their mail. Even thought it's illegal to open it.
Easy. Not wicked to have opened a piece of mail accidentally, nor to read the return address on the front or back hunting for a tick box for return to sender.
1 After the companies' billing departments has got the previous occupier's new address the marketing department keeps mailing your address.
2 You return or forward mail.
3 But it keeps on arriving.
4 Some of the coupons or offers are now duplicates of people sending to you as new owner or occupiers. So you open all those addressed to yourself. A dozen of them. You slit open all and don't notice one of them is for somebody else. So you open one of the envelopes by mistake - find you opened something addressed to previous owners.
5 Then you worry bailiffs or police are about to break down your door. So before re-sealing and returning to sender you you look for the sender's phone helpline to tell them no use calling here. You want to save debt collectors and utilities trouble as well as help previous householders who seem to be missing out vital mail.
6 You start to chuck out the circulars and trash coupons.
7 But, just in case, you open something which might not be a circular.
Still, with goodwill to all, meanwhile anything important you try to return or forward.
Assuming you have time to deal with all your own bills and circulars and still have time to deal with somebody else's as well!
Easy. Not wicked to have opened a piece of mail accidentally, nor to read the return address on the front or back hunting for a tick box for return to sender.
1 After the companies' billing departments has got the previous occupier's new address the marketing department keeps mailing your address.
2 You return or forward mail.
3 But it keeps on arriving.
4 Some of the coupons or offers are now duplicates of people sending to you as new owner or occupiers. So you open all those addressed to yourself. A dozen of them. You slit open all and don't notice one of them is for somebody else. So you open one of the envelopes by mistake - find you opened something addressed to previous owners.
5 Then you worry bailiffs or police are about to break down your door. So before re-sealing and returning to sender you you look for the sender's phone helpline to tell them no use calling here. You want to save debt collectors and utilities trouble as well as help previous householders who seem to be missing out vital mail.
6 You start to chuck out the circulars and trash coupons.
7 But, just in case, you open something which might not be a circular.
Still, with goodwill to all, meanwhile anything important you try to return or forward.
Assuming you have time to deal with all your own bills and circulars and still have time to deal with somebody else's as well!
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