So.. here's the plan....
I stay for one night at a London backpacker hostel/etc.
I receive mail there
I tell all my banks that is my new address
then I emigrate
Then all the mail that comes will be 'RETURN TO SENDER' by the youth hostel..
Also... what if I stayed in the UK.. but wanted to avoid those pesky debt collectors and baliffs? I could just use my youth hostel address.
btw.. how do homeless people get mail? Not all of them are tramps, some of them are educated people... what do they do?
?? *All* your banks?? Blimey, how many have you got?
Light dawns...
What fun 'twould be to be the warden. Not.
Or indeed any other address, like your local police station.
Why not ask the next one you see?
You seem to know a lot about the homeless - why not ask someone who is?
We have friends of family who can provide us with an address.
Jim.
So?
Use your youth hostel address for what? Living in?
If they are homeless they don't get mail.
You can ask your local post office to hold it for you, or get a proper PO Box address.
Tiddy Ogg.
Of course they might, What a stupid statement.
Jim.
Why should they want mail if they choose to be homeless?
To get things like new credit cards delivered to them, or cheques, or all sorts, the same sort of reasons everyone else wants mail.
Jim.
Homeless people will get credit cards and cheques?
You act like they are living a similar life to the rest of us.
I am a homeless person and I do... Do you think the travel-lodge where I've slept most nights this year would be happy to deal with the post for me?
You seem to have a very narrow view of what a homeless person might be.
Jim.
You're not homeless then.
I have no home, so I'm homeless, the only place I've slept successively for more than 6 days this year was on holiday - exactly what definition are you requiring for homeless, and how are you so sure the OP was using your own rather peculiar definition?
Jim.
Do people 'choose' to be homeless? Do homeless people not have anyone to send them mail? Not even the Benefits Agency?
Warning: this will resemble a rant...
I think maybe you should take a wander around your local big town and speak to some of the people you see huddled up in shop doorways. Ask them how much they really like it when it's pouring with rain. I suspect that most people would much prefer to have a decent roof over their heads, but it's all too easy to get into a downward spiral. You need a permanent address to get a job; you need a job to pay the rent. Where, then, do you start? It's all very well for us in our cosy houses and flats to tell people to get off their arses and find a job, but if someone can't find paid employment with qualifications and a nice cosy middle class mortgage what hope has someone without (apparently) anything going for them?
You do at least have some sort of base, or you wouldn't be able to post to this NG...
What is my definition?
What is peculiar about it?
They can stay in hostels if they wanted to.
Are you serious? I mean, are you really serious? Here's a hostel with
6 beds and here are 7 people. What are you going to do? Honestly, what are you going to do? Are you going to shove the unfortunate 7th on the floor, or are you going to tell him (or her) that you're very sorry but you're full and don't have a spare bed? For pity's sake, THINK before you type.
Calm down. Get a grip of yourself.
Hysterical people like you are no use to anyone.
Look at the following site. There's plenty of ways to get somewhere to stay.
You evidently don't know (m)any homeless. Some often get letters from friends and family - delivered to maildrops such as shelters, vicarages, etc. Some homeless have even used the telephone to keep in contact.
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