I hope you guys can help with something that is motoring but strays into personal.
My daughters boyfriend registered his car with us at our address, unfortunately the relationship has gone bad and he has moved out from staying with us, at the moment he is moving from place to place with no fixed address.
This is the first of many things that he has used our address for, so we need to inform DVLA that the address is not correct on the V5 to stop any potential car related mail coming to us.
How can we do this if we aren't the registered keeper??
Added to this he had a small accident recently and has over used a hire car that was provided for him, now we have letters coming to us enquiring about how they are going to reclaim the cost.
I'm not for one to open other peoples mail but my daughter did and found out about the hire car issue, now should I just return the letter to the sender and write 'Does live here, no known forwarding address' or should I phone them and see if they will speak to me (data protection and all that!)?
This type of thing has never happened to me before so I've no idea of the best approach.
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"Gone away, return to sender", is, I believe, the phrase to write on all envelopes before bunging them back in the post box.
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Just return all mail to the sender including any from DVLA marked "Gone Away". No need to do anything more. His problem not yours.
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>> Just return all mail to the sender
It takes a tad longer to scribble the return address on the front of the envelope, but I find this works best for me.
Some firms, particularly those chasing debts (easily identifiable on a Google search) will carry on sending their mail regardless.
Last edited by: Clk Sec on Sun 12 Jun 16 at 11:13
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I think I'd just mark anything arriving for him as "no longer at this address" and put it back in the post box.
Any organisation wishing/needing to contact him will try other methods eventually.
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Might be worth checking credit rating agencies, and correct their records, if any?
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>> I think I'd just mark anything arriving for him as "no longer at this address" and put it back in the post box.
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Plus if it has the little pale orange codes across the envelope then just draw a line through them.
This will eliminate the auto sorter directing it back to you.
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It won't let me look at this site because I use an ad-blocker.
Shrug.
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When we lived in our previous house we'd often get letters, dozens and dozens of them, for people no longer living there. Perhaps 5 or 6 different names, we used to just write 'not know at this address return to sender'. Never had anyone come around, just lots of trips to the nearest post box.
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Thank you all.
I did have something like this when we moved in, the previous owner ran a one-man photo business from home and we kept getting mail for him long after he moved, we just put 'return to sender' and posted them back (some I'm sure were bills).
I'll start sending them all back.
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Changing registered keepers address - Duncan
