Landlord and previous tenants mail

[PaperBagger'14]

So I've rented out a room at my house to a tenant and he has since moved out amicably. He moved out in October 2015 however he hasn't changed his mailing address at his work. He gets pay stubs, catalogues and other work related items mailed to my house still. I have contacted him several times about this mail and he keeps saying he will arrange a time to pick them up which never seems to happen. What recourse do I have here? Can I write "moved, return to sender" on his mail and put it in the box again?

[Canehdianman]

Write RTS on the mail and send it back.

[pgsieve]

I've wrote RTS on almost 50 letters for about three different people since I bought my place. Nothing seems to work... They just keep coming

[4X4]

What works for me (and I've moved like 10 times in my adult life) is crossing out the name on the letter, just a big X over the name and address, then in big letters beside the window:

RTS
MOVED

Works well for me. I do it to absolutely everything that isn't addressed to me. Even SAIT course books, Air Miles things, Home DEopt credit card offers, bank statements... Sometimes it takes a few months to work. Laurentians Bank kept sending statements for the previous owner of my house for over two years, even though I RTS'd it every month. Most of them stop after a couple of months though.

[btimbit]

A lot of the time RTS things just end up back in my mailbox two days later.

I still do it for a while but if other peoples mail continues after a few months I just throw it out

[Canehdianman]

Yeah , to be honest I did RTS for the first year at our house.

Now they go straight into the garbage, whether they are coupons from the local nail salon or letters from the CRA.

[4X4]

Kinda surprising that mail that you actually wrote RTS on ended up back in your mailbox. Sounds like a pretty low IQ mailman creating extra work for himself instead of capitalizing on a citizen's attempt at making their job easier, and saving paper. I know it's not gonna save a forest, but it does annoy me to throw out catalogs and 10-20 statements and addressed junkmail per month for the 3,4,5 people that lived in places before me. But maybe the key is also writing MOVED.

My buddy is a mailman. He's the one that told me about his years and years ago. It works well. For me, anyway.
Big X over the address window, big RTS, big MOVED... They stop within a few months.

On top of that, you print off a sticky label "No Flyers Please" and put that in your mailbox, and you really only have to check your mail once a month, or whenever you're expecting something.

[btimbit]

I've tried Moved, RTS, even writing RTS out in full, and all of them together, but never the big X over the address. I'll try that next time

[4X4]

Just to be clear, it obviously still requires somebody at the receiving end to log in to the file, and delete the addressee from the mail list, or to contact the person and ask for updated mailing address. Banks seem anal about it. You usually only have to RTS their mail once or twice.

The mailman will continue to deliver new addressed mail, even if you RTS'd the previous statement the previous month. But it'd be a special kind of stupid for a mailman to put an envelope with RTS written on it back in your mailbox.

[chemgear]

Make up a whole bunch of stickers of this and apply them and drop them back into a mail box.

[Weitz]

After a month or 2 just throw it out.

[taco.vidal]

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/kb/...t=maildelivery

https://www.canadapost.ca/web/en/kb/...t=maildelivery

[Amethyst]

I used to cross out the name/address, write "moved" and put it in the outgoing mail slot (community super box). After 6 years, I still get occasional mail for the previous owners and now it just goes in the blue bin instead.

[burnin_vernon]

Originally Posted by 4X4

Just to be clear, it obviously still requires somebody at the receiving end to log in to the file, and delete the addressee from the mail list, or to contact the person and ask for updated mailing address. Banks seem anal about it. You usually only have to RTS their mail once or twice.

This is true but it is worth noting that if it is addressed admail, it does not get sent back. Canada Post simply disposes of it and the sender will continue to send future mailings.