Post office post

Dec 10, 2009 9 Replies

A tenant 'occupying' my industrial unit has gone AWOL and is no longer paying the rent and has probably left other outstanding debts yet to surface.



He is still monitoring his hotmail and purports to be out of the country.



I am fairly confident he is in the UK and collects mail, with his name on but with the industrial units address, from the local sorting office. It being a small town, where most are known, a chat with the counter staff revealed this.



Can I legally prevent him from collecting ANY mail, even that with his name on, that has the units address on.



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I wouldn't have thought you could prevent him collecting mail with his name on. I would have thought you could get mail with your name on redirected though.

At home I cannot stop mail being delivered that has Occupier even incorrect name at my address. This tells me it's the address that counts and not who it's going to.

When you redirect mail it is the name, not the address, that counts and it has to be individually redirected for each named person (who have to provide proof of ID and sign a form agreeing to the redirect) or it will continue to be delivered to the address on the envelope.

Dunno how you arrange to collect at a sort office, but surely it must be similar or the system would be wide open to abuse by thieves.

Further to my post...

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This explains the service.

It's the name AND address which is relevant.

Nevertheless, it is the address to which mail is delivered (whatever the name).

correct, the name can be anything.

But you can only get it redirected based on the name AND address.

Commercial landlord & tenant issues regularly crop up on uk.legal.moderated -

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