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"Reporting/Returning misdelivered mail
Despite our best efforts, occasionally mail is mis-delivered, or is delivered to an old location for an individual. If you are receiving mail for the previous resident and do not know their address, simply return the mail piece back to the mailstream (by leaving in a Collection Box® or other mail receptacle) with the notation "Not at this address" marked on the envelope."
Getting other peoples mail is usually a minor problem. The big problem is not getting your own mail after you move. I went to the post office numerous times trying to get my mail forwarded. Mail still went to my old address. I think the post office just pretends and does not actually have a reliable procedure to forward mail.
Just write - Return to Sender, not at this address in it and give it back to the mail carrier.
I did that and it didn't do a bit of good. Here they put the last names of people receiving mail at the house inside the mail box so anything with that name gets left. I tried to deal with it through the carrier but he thought the woman still lived here, even though she'd been dead over a year! I finally had enough and called the post office. Told them I live here, alone and no 'ghosts' in residence. At first I would forward anything that looked important to the woman's estate executor but when it became nothing but junk I called the P.O. The family was supposed to put in a change of address but never did. Anyway, I still get the occasional junk but nothing like before.
I had this recently. Call the postal customer service line and explain that you're getting mail for the previous occupants, and that you're sick of it. They will contact the local postmaster. It will end with the letter carrier being told to update the card in your mailbox to exclude the previous occupant. In our case, that took the form of:
[OUR LAST NAME]
N/O# H&O@N*E%Y(C!U#T?T&!!
That is how it roughly looks when one writes the words "No Honeycutt" on paper with a sharpie, doesn't let it dry, shoves it into the plastic sleeve while wet, and gets it smeared. That's how much they care. They resent someone calling the phone to expect them to do their jobs, and they take it out in small petty childish ways.
Even if you make the phone call, therefore, expect the next or substitute letter carrier to begin anew screwing everything up again. The USPS used to be an excellent institution we took for granted. Now it's gutted, tyrannized by crappy middle managers, and its employees no longer have reason to care. You will have to fight to get them to do their work correctly, and whenever your vigilance lapses, they will loaf.
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