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Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: Sander333
Date: April 28, 2025, 11:07 am
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We have lived in our current address since 2018.
We have had a PCN for previous occupants for an incident in 2019
we normally return mail to sender as moved out in 2018.
A few years ago the PCN referred to above was inadvertently
opened amongst our mail it relates to Horizon parking charge.
I referred the matter to the DVLA informing them to remove the
vehicle registered to our home address under the being bothered
policy and received a letter acknowledging this.
I also returned the PCN to the Parking company explaining that
the person had moved and gave them an outline of where they
moved to according to our recollection.
We are constantly receiving letters returning them unopened to
the address on the reverse of the letter they appear from Debt
Collectors. Surely these imbeciles have the nounce the make
enquires via the voters register etc to establish the house
number where the person lives the only fly in the ointment is we
have correspondence form other companies with a multiple use of
surnames.
I suppose just returning the mail is my best option.
#Post#: 71878--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: Sander333
Date: May 16, 2025, 1:54 pm
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Today we received another letter addressed to previous occupant
SWMBO inadvertently opened it whilst opening an abundance of
letters for us. The letter is yet again asking for £170 from
moorside debt collectors.We will yet again return it.
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Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: roythebus
Date: May 16, 2025, 6:39 pm
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I suspect your recycling bin will find a use for such letters.
Otherwise I find a threat of the Prevention from Harassment Act
usually works.
#Post#: 71956--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: andy_foster
Date: May 17, 2025, 7:28 am
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Forget all this inadvertent bollox.
Once mail has been delivered, it is not an offence to open and
read it unless it is with the intention of causing harm to the
addressee.
Did you have a question?
#Post#: 71964--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: Sander333
Date: May 17, 2025, 8:50 am
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Just a nuisance will return letter with reply as outlined above.
SWMBO was concerned that she may have triggered a bit of grief
that she opened previous occupier mail.
#Post#: 72322--------------------------------------------------
Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: PallasAthena
Date: May 20, 2025, 4:33 am
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--- Quote from: Sander333 link ---
> SWMBO was concerned that she may have triggered a bit of grief
that she opened previous occupier mail.
--- End Quote ---
As andy_foster has said opening mail delivered to your address
for someone who doesn't live there is not automatically illegal.
Should anyone ever question that the relevant law is s84 (3)
Postal Services Act 2000
HTML https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2000/26/section/84
which
says [my bold] "A person commits an offence if, intending to act
to a person’s detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens
a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been
incorrectly delivered to him."
So if that isn't your intent in opening the item of mail then
there is no offence.
"Reasonable excuse" could include a concern that a fraud was
being carried out using your address or to find the return
address for the sender, or indeed just opening in error by not
noticing the addressee name on the mail.
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Re: Parking charge notice to previous occupier
DIR By: H C Andersen
Date: May 20, 2025, 9:02 am
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I don't think the OP's concern is opening post, it's whether
they're likely to have bailiffs turning up on the doorstep. OP,
pl confirm.
Others have more knowledge, but as I understand it, unless the
sum outstanding meets the High Court enforcement threshold then
'enforcement officers' aren't engaged. A single parking charge
would not meet this threshold.
We have had a PCN for previous occupants for an incident in 2019
When exactly in 2019? I ask because the limit for bringing any
legal proceedings in this matter(alleged breach of simple
contract) is 6 years and once this deadline has passed you
should be free from the nuisance.
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