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Post by freecharlie on Apr 11, 2018 2:12:52 GMT
I live in a small town. Small enough our regular postal person knows who lives where.
Today I got some of my cousins Mail, which wouldn't be strange except we don't have the same last name, our addresses aren't similar and she doesn't live in my neighborhood.
Weird.
What weird things happen to you?
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Post by alexa11 on Apr 11, 2018 2:20:05 GMT
I get my ex's junk mail and we've been divorced since 95. He has never lived at this address and I switched my name back years ago.
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Post by ntsf on Apr 11, 2018 2:42:20 GMT
I live on a one block street.. next to streets that are two blocks long.. and I get mail for the other blocks with the same number. I mean.. 80 my street is not that difficult.
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Post by Skellinton on Apr 11, 2018 2:57:04 GMT
We get misdelivered mail all the time. What drives me nuts is that we always take the mail to the right address, generally it is someone within walking distance of our house. No one ever brings us our misdelivered mail though, last year we got several Christmas cards in July. On every card someone had written “delivered to wrong address”. I know people are busy, but come on, just walk 5 or 6 houses down the street or just a street over and take your neighbors their mail.
As for weird things that happen to me, I guarantee you when I go to a movie the oddest person in the theater is going to sit next to me. The person that laughs at the scary parts, the person who offered advice to the actors on the screen, the person who falls asleep and starts snoring, the person who reads the credits outloud, the person who yells “Good Night” in a Mr. Ed voice at the funny bits, etc etc. Often times there are plenty of open seats, but the nutters always sit next to me.
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Post by crazy4scraps on Apr 11, 2018 2:59:43 GMT
We get junk mail for my MIL who passed away almost seven years ago, which wouldn’t be odd except she died a year before we moved here and we never forwarded her mail to this address. 😱 I think we even get beg letters from places that never sent anything to her when she was alive!
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Post by Lexica on Apr 11, 2018 3:14:26 GMT
I get packages for other addresses all the time and I am forever walking down the street or around the corner to deliver it to the proper address. Sometimes it is the right house number but wrong street. There is a street near here that has identical house numbers, which I think causes a lot of confusion. The most upsetting one for me was a package of medication. I order my meds through the mail all the time, with the exception of the restricted pain meds. I received a packet and tosses it into the drawer where I keep all of the extra meds until my current bottle is empty.
When I went to refill some of my empties, I opened that packet to find medication that was not mine. I was so upset because I had had it in the drawer for about 3 week’s time. I looked at the name on the bottle and realized it was for that address that has the same number but wrong street. I packaged it up and mailed it to them with a note explaining what happened and apologizing for having it for so long before realizing. I hope they did not suffer without their meds and were able to get another sent to them right away. In the mean time, I have no idea who got mine. It was never sent on to me.
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Post by melanell on Apr 11, 2018 3:22:47 GMT
We still get mail for people who lived here over 20 years ago. Somebody out there is selling some wickedly outdated mailing lists is all I have to say.
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Post by jemali on Apr 11, 2018 3:27:21 GMT
I have had junk mail addressed to me at MIL’s address. She always saves it and gives it to me. I tell her she can just toss it but she won’t.
My cousin once made a charitable donation and used a fake middle initial just to see where they were selling their mailing address list to.
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Post by Jili on Apr 11, 2018 3:30:08 GMT
We occasionally get mail addressed to my MIL. Her first name and dh's last name. She hasn't had dh's last name since he was about 2 years old, a few husbands ago. She's certainly never lived here, either. It's never anything important (junk mail essentially) but I find it weird.
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Post by katlady on Apr 11, 2018 3:43:21 GMT
We occasionally get mailed addressed to wrong first name, correct last name. And no one in our family ever had the wrong first name, not even extended family.
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Post by beaglemom on Apr 11, 2018 4:03:54 GMT
I have had junk mail addressed to me at MIL’s address. She always saves it and gives it to me. I tell her she can just toss it but she won’t. My mil does this too. It drives me nuts. She always makes a big deal about giving it to us and 99.9% of the time 100% of it goes directly in their recycle bin. She knows we don't want it, but makes sure that it is the first thing she gives us when we walk in the door. She also insists on giving me her read People magazines. I think once 5 years ago I asked to look at one when she was done. They end up in our half bath for people to read for a week or so till the kids pull them down and then they go in the recycle. |
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Post by caangel on Apr 11, 2018 5:57:02 GMT
I get my ex's junk mail and we've been divorced since 95. He has never lived at this address and I switched my name back years ago. I see your ex and up it with my BIL'S ex. He lived with us for about 10 months while they were getting divorced about 6 yrs ago. She never lived here. About 6months ago we started getting refinance offers for her. |
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Post by cawoman on Apr 11, 2018 7:39:28 GMT
This isn’t about mail but it’s weird. My step-dad died 4 years ago. I was in the process of calling to cancel certain things, etc. He had a subscription to something. When I called to cancel it, the CS person said he was the only one that could cancel it. (My Mom wasn’t capable of handling stuff like this at that time.). I repeated that he had died. She then asked if I had a forwarding address for him!! I wish I was kidding.
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Post by genealopea on Apr 11, 2018 11:50:37 GMT
Our house is fairly new, and it doesn't show up on my in-laws' outdated GPS, so they have a different address plugged in for us - it's a nearby fire house. Somehow, they managed to address our Christmas card this year as: Mr and Mrs Genealopea, Fire Department, mangled name of street. No town, state or zip code. It arrived three weeks later, but it got here. lol
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 11, 2018 12:07:23 GMT
The daughter of the people who live across the street married a guy with a similar last name to ours, but spelled differently. We don't have anyone in our house with her first name, and she doesn't live at that house anymore. We used to have a carrier who would always insist on putting her mail in our box, even though the name was different and the address was different. Guess he figured he knew better!
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Post by mikklynn on Apr 11, 2018 12:12:13 GMT
This isn’t about mail but it’s weird. My step-dad died 4 years ago. I was in the process of calling to cancel certain things, etc. He had a subscription to something. When I called to cancel it, the CS person said he was the only one that could cancel it. (My Mom wasn’t capable of handling stuff like this at that time.). I repeated that he had died. She then asked if I had a forwarding address for him!! I wish I was kidding. That woman must have worked for Marriott at one time! I couldn't find a hotel room in the area when DDIL's mother passed away. I called the 800# to see if they could find something and explained we had a funeral. She said "well, if you had made your reservation earlier..."! |
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Post by melanell on Apr 11, 2018 17:24:25 GMT
We occasionally get mail addressed to my MIL. Her first name and dh's last name. She hasn't had dh's last name since he was about 2 years old, a few husbands ago. She's certainly never lived here, either. It's never anything important (junk mail essentially) but I find it weird. My parents get mail for one of my siblings' exes. Not an ex-spouse, but someone my sibling did live with for a year or two. However, said sibling & partner never lived with my parents or even in the same city as my parents. Nor did the partner ever have my sibling's surname. Yet the mail comes with the partner's first name, my sibling's last name, and to my parents' house. WTHeck, right? |
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Post by workingclassdog on Apr 11, 2018 17:36:42 GMT
I got mail for my old boss a few weeks ago... he doesn't even live close by.. not even in the same vicinity... but it was a $50 credit to Costco.. (just some kind of promotion)... so yeah I am not sending it to him... he doesn't even shop there. lol
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Post by paperamy on Apr 11, 2018 21:05:07 GMT
This is similar but 3 years After I moved into my house, I received the prior owners IRS tax refund. I knew where the man’s mother worked so I took it to her.
Five or six years after I moved in, at Christmas, I got a package of cheese addressed to the same prior owner. (This cheese is from a regional place and pretty expensive for cheese) I took it to his mother. The very next year, we got another box.
I kept that box and it was the best damn cheese I’ve ever eaten. 😁
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Post by RedSquirrelUK on Apr 11, 2018 21:33:45 GMT
I have had junk mail addressed to me at MIL’s address. She always saves it and gives it to me. I tell her she can just toss it but she won’t. My mil does this too. It drives me nuts. She always makes a big deal about giving it to us and 99.9% of the time 100% of it goes directly in their recycle bin. She knows we don't want it, but makes sure that it is the first thing she gives us when we walk in the door. She also insists on giving me her read People magazines. I think once 5 years ago I asked to look at one when she was done. They end up in our half bath for people to read for a week or so till the kids pull them down and then they go in the recycle. I don't understand. In the UK, if we get junk mail addressed to someone else at our address, we return it to the sender with the message 'not known at this address' written on it, and they remove us from their database. It's of no benefit to them if something is wrongly addressed - wrong target. But if I'm receiving your unwanted junk mail, it's your job to cancel it, not mine. Unless you specifically ask me (nicely!) to cancel it for you, I'm going to keep passing it on to you. But maybe the junk distribution companies don't work in the same way in the US. SaveSave |
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Post by Grom Pea on Apr 11, 2018 21:54:38 GMT
Once I got a letter addressed to my father who lives in ma and I live in San Diego. I'm pretty sure it was that the letters were printed and sent out from the same company at the same time and they got stuck together but it was still pretty weird :-)
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Post by wasil on Apr 11, 2018 22:40:13 GMT
My in laws passed away about 13 years ago and for a brief time we had their landline forwarded to our phone. After the estate was settled we had that line disconnected.
It wasn’t long afterwards rhat we started getting mail for an unfamiliar family addressed to our house. Some of it was personal letters that I marked “not at this address” and put it back in the box.
I did some internet sleuthing and found that this family had been given my deceased in laws old phone number. How it got attached to our address is a mystery.
I will still on occasion receive junk mail with their names and our address.
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Post by littlemama on Apr 11, 2018 23:02:30 GMT
I occasionally receive mail and phone calls that have a different first name than my own. The creepy thing is that I use a fake name for playing games on my tablet only. The name I use is a nickname for the name the mail comes addressed to.
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Post by Neisey on Apr 12, 2018 2:05:10 GMT
I get my ex's junk mail and we've been divorced since 95. He has never lived at this address and I switched my name back years ago. Sounds like a passive aggressive statement...he signs up for things using your addy lol! |
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Post by malibou on Apr 12, 2018 3:51:35 GMT
I used to have a hateful neighbor that would pull out all of the cards from magazines and fill them out with our address, and totally fucked up names. Things like Adolph Hitler, Ima Dick, Big Head Bobby - these awful people stood outside my newborn son's bedroom window on their side of the fence and said "Did you see the baby? He has the biggest head I've ever seen. He probably has encephalitis and is going to die." His head is normal. We were getting loads of mail, so the mail lady asked to keep one of those usps mail bins on our porch so she could just toss it in. At one point it was filling every two days. Eventually the mail lady was allowed to only deliver mail with our names on it. They finally moved and it stopped. We considered bringing a case against them, but in the end we were glad for it to be over. We had so much crap mail collected that we filled our recycling bin 3 times - our bins are as big as our trashcans.
Other than that, we seldom get mail for others, but when we do, it is someone clear across town.
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Post by freecharlie on Apr 12, 2018 3:57:54 GMT
I used to have a hateful neighbor that would pull out all of the cards from magazines and fill them out with our address, and totally fucked up names. Things like Adolph Hitler, Ima Dick, Big Head Bobby - these awful people stood outside my newborn son's bedroom window on their side of the fence and said "Did you see the baby? He has the biggest head I've ever seen. He probably has encephalitis and is going to die." His head is normal. We were getting loads of mail, so the mail lady asked to keep one of those usps mail bins on our porch so she could just toss it in. At one point it was filling every two days. Eventually the mail lady was allowed to only deliver mail with our names on it. They finally moved and it stopped. We considered bringing a case against them, but in the end we were glad for it to be over. We had so much crap mail collected that we filled our recycling bin 3 times - our bins are as big as our trashcans. Other than that, we seldom get mail for others, but when we do, it is someone clear across town. would you get charged for the stuff? |
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Post by malibou on Apr 12, 2018 4:04:59 GMT
No, but we were on the phone constantly putting a stop to magazine subscriptions. Everyone we dealt with in that regard was super helpful.
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Post by mom on Apr 12, 2018 4:07:25 GMT
I used to have a hateful neighbor that would pull out all of the cards from magazines and fill them out with our address, and totally fucked up names. Things like Adolph Hitler, Ima Dick, Big Head Bobby - these awful people stood outside my newborn son's bedroom window on their side of the fence and said "Did you see the baby? He has the biggest head I've ever seen. He probably has encephalitis and is going to die." His head is normal. We were getting loads of mail, so the mail lady asked to keep one of those usps mail bins on our porch so she could just toss it in. At one point it was filling every two days. Eventually the mail lady was allowed to only deliver mail with our names on it. They finally moved and it stopped. We considered bringing a case against them, but in the end we were glad for it to be over. We had so much crap mail collected that we filled our recycling bin 3 times - our bins are as big as our trashcans. Other than that, we seldom get mail for others, but when we do, it is someone clear across town. holy cow. What'd you do to piss them off? |
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Post by malibou on Apr 12, 2018 5:05:55 GMT
You know mom, we never did figure it out. It started about 2 years in to us being neighbors. They messed with other neighbors at our end of the block too. The old couple across the street got quite a bit of mail, but nothing compared to us, and the old Muslim woman that lived across from the awfuls had to endure the very large woman wearing just a t-shirt bending over in her driveway exposing her ginormous ass on the regular. When they moved, the new owners had to have two deadbolt locks on the master closet removed as the keys were not left. Oh, and they used to have epic arguments in which we were convinced she was beating his skinny ass. They also would chuck their dog poo over the fence into our yard. They also cut down a tree my dh had planted for me after my first miscarriage. It would make your head spin to know how quickly I called a rental place trying to get a ditch bitch so I could tear up their yard. Dh stopped me, fun sucker. Yup, no idea what we did. |
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Post by Fidget on Apr 12, 2018 12:59:50 GMT
At Christmas time I have packages sent to a neighbor at the end of my block, her house is about 12 houses down from me. She is retired and I still work so reason is obvious. Well I was at home one evening and someone knocked on the door, I looked out and saw the USPS delivery truck so I opened the door. The mail carrier proceeded to tell me that I needed to update my address with the sender of my package because it had my neighbors address on it. I was speechless, he handed me the package, I thanked him and closed the door...
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