How do I get the mail to stop delivering shit for old tenants?

yeah that sucks

To stop mail addressed to former residents, or a former spouse
If you rent you are probably familiar with receiving mail for a dozen or more former residents of your dwelling. Since you probably don't want any of the stuff, you can use two powerful techniques that might not be appropriate for yourself:

Bulk mail for "current resident or ...": Start with sending a postcard or letter to Mail Preference Service, Direct Marketing Association, PO Box 643, Carmel, NY 15012-0643 Write "please activate the mail preference service", and include the name, address, and zip code. You must send individual postcards -- the DMA wants to make this all as inconvienent as possible. The DMA will ignore requests that don't appear to be from a single individual.
First class and some bulk mail: If the former residents neglected to fill out a Post Office change of address card, or it expired, you can fill one out for them. You must fill out one card for each unique last name. Write "Moved, Left No Forwarding Address" as the new address. Sign your own name and write "Form filled in by current resident of the house, [Your Name], agent for the above". You must write "agent for the above". Hand this form directly to your carrier, if possible, as your carrier must approve the form and see that it gets entered into the post service National Change of Address (NCOA) database. This is very effective.

I have never seen my carrier, but I hate him.

Woah, simply scrawling "No longer at this address, return to sender" isn't sufficient (if it ever was)?

Open old tenants mail, apply for credit cards, fly entire family in for Christmas

I thought it was pretty harmless until the former tenant got a letter from the DMV, saying that his new drivers license had been made out to my address. I worried that he'd be a target of a sting operation and Pulaski County deputies would bust down my door at three in the morning.

So I went to the DMV and they deleted it.

just after we moved into a new place a few years ago, we got a case of wine that the previous tenants had ordered. we drank it. pretty shitty thing to do now i think about it. damn.

Years ago we lived in a flat where the previous tenant used to get a porn video catalogue sent monthly.

We've got the previous tenant's new address (he's in France), so I thought I'd be a nice guy, and take all the mail that's come for him and forward it along. Then he started getting big packages (they seem like textbooks), and I'm gonna have to be a little selective with what I forward and what I don't.

I'll just go ahead and drink this coffee, don't mind me.

Woah, simply scrawling "No longer at this address, return to sender" isn't sufficient (if it ever was)?

At one house I lived in, we would write this in big red marker on the envelope, hand-deliver it to the post office and give them explicit instructions stating our case, and then we'd get it back in the mail a week later.

I dutifully fill out the mail-forwarding forms when I move, but stuff seems to slip through and go back to the old address anyway. Someone used a book-club direct mailer in my name to order a bunch of sex how-tos ("The New, Illustrated Kama Sutra" or whatever...) and an "Our Gang" calendar. I found this out when I got a collections notice mailed to my current address.

I hate the postal service.

Wah fucking wah. Suck it up, Willams, you pussy.

Thanks Mr Que, I am going to try your method. We have ex-tenants who are deliberately using our address for a junk mail dump.

What the fuck, my postman took my netflix out of my box to put packages in

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