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    Hundreds of parking ticket from excel parking eye and others at my new address

    I have been advised to post on here from mse forum as i have a problem i dont know how to deal with
    About 2 weeks ago i recently completed on the purchase of a house in a small town and moved all my stuff in.
    After being away for a few days clearing out my old flat i come back to find the post man knocking at my door with what i can only describe as a small stack of post .
    In it was over 400 letters all with different names on. Some peoples name and some company names.
    I put them to one side having started a new job, over the next few days i come home to literally hundreds more

    Over 2 weeks i have several thousand letters and feel rather overwhelmed
    I manage to speak to the postman and ask him what is going on and he says he has been delivering this volume of mail for the last 18 months

    So i open quite a large number of them and they are from companies like Excel Parking Ltd, Parking Eye Ltd Smart Parking Ltd. There are also parking tickets from different councils and speeding tickets. I have also seem some log books from the dvla and letters from debt collectors

    I contact my solicitor who i brought the house through and the estate agent to get hold of the person who sold me the house and they have asked the couple to get in contact as I have no forwarding address or phone number. They said when they were selling it that they were moving abroad (i dont know where)

    I have literally no idea what to do now and literally piles and piles of mail

    To top it of i had a bailiff turn up today looking for some one but said he had been here before

    My friends say it must be a scam and someone said it sounds like a mailbox address which i dont really understand

    What can I do ??
    help!!!!!!
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    anyone??

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    • #3
      pendlewitch2 I appreciate your concern and worry in respect of all the post you are receiving at your new address for parking ticket fines.

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      • #4

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        Sorry, I wrote the below earlier today, but was called out to deal with an urgent problem (children!) and forgot to click on "post reply"

        Not what one would call "welcoming"

        Firstly you shouldn't really have opened any of them, but I can understand why you did.
        Normally one marks the envelope "unknown at this address" and puts it back in the pillar box.
        In your situation I would put them all in a sack, tied at the neck with a note " all unknown at this address" and drop it off at the nearest sorting office.

        That will get rid of the pile in the corner of your lounge!

        How to stop the flow, I don't know.
        Perhaps the sorting office staff can intercept the post to your house so only items addressed to you personally, or to "the occupier" are delivered.
        That would cut down the deluge.

        Others might have suggestions so tagging islandgirl , echat11 PallasAthena

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        • #5
          Originally posted by des8 View Post
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          Sorry, I wrote the below earlier today, but was called out to deal with an urgent problem (children!) and forgot to click on "post reply"
          Firstly you shouldn't really have opened any of them, but I can understand why you did.

          Perhaps the sorting office staff can intercept the post to your house so only items addressed to you personally, or to "the occupier" are delivered.
          I'm not sure what to suggest at the moment but so as not to worry OP more I would add that it is not illegal to open mail addressed to your house but to someone who is unknown as long as you have "reasonable excuse" and are not opening it to use the contents to anyone's "detriment". Postal Services Act 2000 s84 (3). There is clear reason to believe the letters are connected with fraudulent use of your address which [IMO] would be a "reasonable excuse".

          Sadly I think Royal Mail is under a legal duty to deliver all mail to the premises it is addressed to and will not accept an instruction to intercept such mail and not deliver it. Royal Mail's delivery obligation is to deliver to the premises not to a named individual. Although you could always seal up your letterbox so that nothing can be delivered and refuse to accept it when postie knocks on the door. It'll all then be returned by RM as 'Undeliverable' but that will include mail addressed to you too.
          Last edited by PallasAthena; 16th July 2025, 10:02:AM.
          All opinions expressed are based on my personal experience. I am not a lawyer and do not hold any legal qualifications.

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          • #6
            I would enjoy writing return to sender not at this address on each one and putting it back in the post. Hugely satisfying. The odd one may fall open so I know what I am dealing with. They will keep coming for quite a bit - enjoy posting them back with a smile. You will probably have debt collectors turn up again - they will not believe you are not the person and will have to show ID to get rid. Do not open the door to any of them or invite them in. They have no right to take anything but they can take some persuading of that so best not to go there. They have no right of entry. It should dry up eventually. Have a look on companies house and see if anything is registered at your new address.

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            • #7
              I think it needs to be reported to Action Fraud, the address was clearly being used for a scam.

              https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

              The British Parking Association maybe able to help, contact them explain your situation, that your address has been used as a scam.
              Ask them if they can ask the membership to remove your address from their databases, give them the Action Fraud reference number.
              (If the Reference number can be upgraded to a Crime Reference that would be good)

              https://www.britishparking.co.uk/BPA-Approved-Operators

              That should hopefully put an end to the matter / post.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by echat11 View Post
                I think it needs to be reported to Action Fraud, the address was clearly being used for a scam.

                https://www.actionfraud.police.uk/

                The British Parking Association maybe able to help, contact them explain your situation, that your address has been used as a scam.
                Ask them if they can ask the membership to remove your address from their databases, give them the Action Fraud reference number.
                (If the Reference number can be upgraded to a Crime Reference that would be good)

                https://www.britishparking.co.uk/BPA-Approved-Operators

                That should hopefully put an end to the matter / post.
                Good idea, but also write to International Parking Community (https://theipc.info/)

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                • #9
                  Thanks everyone so far, i dont think its possible for me to return all the mail, i cant write on them all not known at this address its madness

                  I am wanting to get to the bottom of what the previous owners have done here and take it from there

                  It doesnt make a lot of sense to me but from the mail i have had and a post on moneysavingexpert forum it seems people have registered cars here so parking tickets come to this address, i dont understand how this benefits anyone, found quite a few v5s


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