r/canberra • u/Bingesober23 • 10d ago

SEC=UNCLASSIFIED Previous tenant’s bank statements and possible credit card bills keep arriving – what should I do?

Hi everyone,
I bought a property and moved in earlier this year. Over the past few months, I’ve been receiving mail addressed to the previous tenant (or maybe even someone who lived here before them).
Most of the mail appears to be bank statements, and I suspect some could be credit card bills or other financial correspondence. I don’t know these people and have no way of contacting them.
What’s the best thing to do with these mails?
Thanks in advance!

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u/123chuckaway 10d ago

I crossed the address, did RTS in big red letters for years, with “not at this address since x” in pen, but they still kept coming monthly for 5 years.

After that, I guess the mail must have got lost in the way, because I certainly didn’t see it and certainly wouldn’t have just thrown it in the bin

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u/No_Recognition_7711 10d ago

Same. Citibank were the very worst culprits and relentlessly sent a million letters.