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As someone who rents so much of my mail is from past residents which I have told them do not live here, or local ads (literally several magazines per month) which I can't opt out of cause it's EDDM, that I straight up just stopped collecting it. Any small packages that would have gone in the box go on top of the cluster and any letters I received are stuffed into the box and I pick them out if I happen to notice I'm missing something.
Anyone that really needs my attention would call me or email me shrug
Watch out for jury duty summons.
My address on my license is still my parents house and I haven't lived there permanently for 18 years. I move around a lot (hopefully I can finally stop that this year) so I wasn't going to get a new driver's license every year or two. Whenever I get a summons, I just reply with one of the exclusions ("I live more than 40 miles away", "I don't live in the state anymore", etc...). I've never had to go 😂
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Mine made a clerical issue when I updated my address and decided there were two of me once. Only found out because both of me got jury duty. That was a fun one.
I've lived in two other states so far other than the one on my license, but I also haven't driven in those states in those times (other than something like ZipCar or renting a car) that I've lived there. The time I did live in the same state, I lived at least 1.5 hours from that address/county so I could just claim "I'm too far away".
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If I've never been summoned for jury duty. Does this mean I don't have any peers?
I got summoned once, but it was from my previous state because I had forgotten to change my residency. So I responded that I'm out of state and promptly changed my license and voter registration. Boom, dodged that one. :)
But seriously, I would actually like to serve on a jury.
When I was renting I had a stamp "Return to sender. Addressee not known at this address"
I do similar. Cross the name out with a Sharpie and write "MOVED".
After owning the place for two years now I just throw it out.
Just so you know, throwing mail away that isn't yours is a federal crime.
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Yeah I work in a government department which among other things has to handle mail returned to it, and I know we mark addresses unreliable when mail comes back
I guess I just hope the electricity company and local government is as diligent
I'd wait until I had a few before making an effort to post the returns (Australia doesn't have mail pickup from your home mailbox; we have post boxes at local shops)
I did that for a couple years, and now I still get junk from the previous owner. I've been here 10 years...
Then again, now I get invitations to retirement stuff, so I guess that's cool (I'm nowhere near retirement, but the previous owner was about that age).
Yeah it took some 15 years for the letters for the people who lived in my house before me to stop
Yeah, I mostly just toss them now, but if I get a bunch all at once, I'll take a couple minutes to annoy the mail carrier with some "Not at this address" markings.
My mailbox is near where I leave my garbage, so I only check it once a week. I immediately throw anything that's clearly an ad directly into the garbage and never look at it.
Same here. Like 90% of my mail is for previous residents. One guy apparently never updated his address so he keeps getting sent checks and I just throw them away. I've been living here for 9 months 🤷♂️
I check my mail like once every few weeks. I checked it a few days ago and most of it wasn't for me. Three out of the 5 things that were for me were from TicketMaster, Rite-Aid, and Choice Healthcare and they were all "Sorry, we've been hacked and your personal info was probably leaked."