End of unwanted mail

Anyone who has lived in a student house or rented house with substantial throughput knows: stacks of mail that are not meant for you.
Throwing the old paper seems the easiest option, but for the longer term and for the environment it is better to get rid of it with a little bit of effort.

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My first housemate said that she just put mail that was not in front of us in the paper bin. She also wanted to receive the advertising leaflets per se, so the paper bin was always filled to my displeasure. But besides that, I was also in my hands almost every day with all sorts of envelopes for at least ten different persons, none of whom were still traceable.

Our own post almost seemed to drown. In my later rented house there was also mail for several people, while the previous occupant had lived there for at least five years. Apart from the fact that all kinds of companies (including debt collection agencies) are incorrectly assuming that their message arrives at the right person and the addressee may not at all realize that this item is going wrong, all that useless mail does not have a positive effect on the environment. That should be better.

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The first causes of the origin of that 'erroneous post' is actually immediately when moving. You already have so much on your mind that you do not think about giving your new address anywhere. Then it also suddenly appears at how many instances you are actually known!

That is why I have put together a checklist so that you can hardly forget an authority when passing on your change of address. Often you can also pass it on very quickly and easily via websites and e-mail addresses. That happened. An alternative is the removal service of PostNL, where they send your mail for a small amount for a few months and also pass on your address change to companies.

Even after all changes of address there is a chance that something has been forgotten, but for that the solution is simple. When you move, you exchange your data with the new occupants of your old house and the old occupants of your new home. This way you can easily store, forward or collect each other's mail. After that, of course, you can give your new address to the relevant senders, so that it will arrive at the right address in the future.

In student houses and many rented houses, not all residents have been cleaned up and you will not only encounter mail from the previous occupant, but sometimes many others. If you throw it in the paper bin, the mail will continue to come. Again a simple trick: send back! From all mail with a return address and a name on it you can simply cross out your own address, scribble 'return sender' and throw it back on the bus. It is wise to add something to it so that the sender knows that they have to remove your address from their file. 'Recipient unknown at this address', 'Moved' or something similar is usually sufficient.

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If you regularly want to return this type of mail, you can save a stack and then describe everything in one go and throw it in the box. Sometimes companies are somewhat stubborn or inattentive and they continue to send mail a number of times until the penny falls. You will notice that the pile is shrinking in no time.
So that air up. But then it also appears that every address that once a telecom company, charity, lottery or Swedish store has ever received air is not protected with your beautiful No-No or No-Yes sticker. It is not officially unaddressed advertising, but addressed mail.

Your name is not listed, but your address is. This is the most stubborn post and immediately requires the most effort to get rid of. If the return sender method does not work, you can try to actively request a deregistration via the website, but often they report that you must unsubscribe in writing. For example, I have sent minimal notes for a while, especially against the telecom terror, but really, it is completely finished now.

I found my inspiration @ adrianbowyer.blogspot.com and zaailingen.com