(with apologies to Wells Fargo)<\/p>\n
When I moved in to this house it had been empty for a month.<\/p>\n
I’d been in the house less than 24 hours when there was a knock on the door.<\/p>\n
“Hi,” said the bloke. “I used to live here. We’ve just moved around the corner to number X. Is there any post for us?”<\/p>\n
There was indeed; a fair-sized dollop of spam-looking post, a couple of anonymous-looking white envelopes and a few other bits and bobs.<\/p>\n
I handed them over (it’s alright, I did recognise him, from when I came to view the house).<\/p>\n
“If anything else arrives for us, would you mind dropping it around to number X?”<\/p>\n
Without considering his question, I said I would.<\/p>\n
That was September 2013.<\/p>\n
Three months later (four months after they had moved out), just before Christmas, I decided enough was enough.<\/p>\n
I started marking the five\/six items of post I was getting for the previous occupiers each week as ‘not at this address – return to sender’.<\/p>\n
The trigger was a letter from DVLA (looked like a tax disc renewal notice), and a white window envelope addressed to both of them from a credit card company.<\/p>\n
These two things arrived on the same day.<\/p>\n
The white envelope from the credit card company could have been anything.<\/p>\n
But the letter from DVLA meant that they had not informed that agency of a change of address for their vehicle.<\/p>\n
And, logically, also probably not informed that agency of a change of address for their driving licences.<\/p>\n
Who knows who else they hadn’t told?<\/p>\n
And let’s face it, four months is adequate time to get your addressing shit together and tell everyone you’ve moved, right?<\/p>\n
Or am I wrong?<\/p>\n
What, in your view, is a reasonable length of time to accept mail and stuff it through their letterbox five doors up?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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