Is there an address your place regularly gets confused with?

[shakespearegirl]

There is a street called Rua Da Liberdade in pretty much every town in Portugal, about 6 months ago ALL the delivery companies decided to start delivering our stuff to the next town… phone call, I’ll be delivering in 5 minutes, 15 minutes later another phone call saying you aren’t home… oh yes we are, let me guess you are in xxxx not xxxx.

 

[gentlegreen]

Two streets away - first two letters the same.
It's always me having to take their stuff to them - it's when I'm not in (because I'm not expecting a delivery) and neighbours have taken in packages addressed to "woman's name" for that house in that wrong street and then handed them to me ...

 

[xenon]

Had the odd summons for driving offences. One had the collar number of the investigating officer. At the time I worked for the plod so tried to look him up on Outlook rather than phone the courts. (couldn't find him.)

Sometimes get post for someone I've never heard of but my address. including medical appointments for 2 different people. I did phone up the clinic the first time. Second, was a dental appointment IIRC, just shredded it. Not gonna spend half the morning on the phone to correct someone who can't get their own address right.

Why you reading post not address to you xenon?

Spoiler

I use an app on my phone to read mail. Naturally enough I assume most of it is for me so open it rather than scan each item twice, once for the envelope then once opened. I hate dealing with post...

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

The road parallel to mine does not have a similar name but occasionally I get their stuff , usually take it round. Met the grumpy lady who lives there once when she opened the door just as I was putting HER post in , she was grumpy about it , I doubt she ever walks mine around . There's a street with a similar name down the road , occasionally we get their post , I walk it round . On a couple of occasions I've had post for the same road but in Norfolk , I didn't walk that round.

It's just occurred to me that my opposite number has never reciprocated, never walked my mail round. I live at, shall we say, 123 This Street, and the parallel road has a house 123 That Street.

I've lived here nearly 20 years, on and off, and the post sometimes gets mixed up (probably when our regular postie is off, because he's really good), and I sometimes get the post for 123 That Street.

If that happens, I'll take their post round the next time I'm nipping to the shops on the main road or venturing out for whatever reason. I generally ring their doorbell and say Sorry your post is late, it came to my address by mistake. They've only come to their door maybe 2-3 times though, the rest of the time, if they don't come to the door, I just pop it through their letterbox. I've delivered their post probably at least once a year over the years.

It's just occurred to me that in all that time, they've never reciprocated. And they wouldn't be able to just pop my post in my letterbox if I'm out, because I'm in a block of flats, but they've never rung my doorbell and given me my post. Also, it would be walking out of their way, because I live in the other direction from the shops. I'm guessing that if I've had quite a bit of their post over the years, they must've had some of mine, surely?

Right, the next time I receive any of their post, I'm just going to put it in the bin.

 

[Plumdaff]

I used to live on a XXXXXXXX Lane which was a continuation from a XXXXXXXX Rise, or vice versa. There was a block of flats at the same number on the Rise as my block of flats on the Lane, we virtually became close friends because of the amount of time we spent swapping parcels with each other.

 

[muscovyduck]

Had the odd summons for driving offences. One had the collar number of the investigating officer. At the time I worked for the plod so tried to look him up on Outlook rather than phone the courts. (couldn't find him.)

Sometimes get post for someone I've never heard of but my address. including medical appointments for 2 different people. I did phone up the clinic the first time. Second, was a dental appointment IIRC, just shredded it. Not gonna spend half the morning on the phone to correct someone who can't get their own address right.

Why you reading post not address to you xenon?

Spoiler

I use an app on my phone to read mail. Naturally enough I assume most of it is for me so open it rather than scan each item twice, once for the envelope then once opened. I hate dealing with post...

You in the UK and was the medical stuff recent? Reason I ask is that it's been getting quite common and it seems like an issues NHS side

 

[scifisam]

It's just occurred to me that my opposite number has never reciprocated, never walked my mail round. I live at, shall we say, 123 This Street, and the parallel road has a house 123 That Street.

I've lived here nearly 20 years, on and off, and the post sometimes gets mixed up (probably when our regular postie is off, because he's really good), and I sometimes get the post for 123 That Street.

If that happens, I'll take their post round the next time I'm nipping to the shops on the main road or venturing out for whatever reason. I generally ring their doorbell and say Sorry your post is late, it came to my address by mistake. They've only come to their door maybe 2-3 times though, the rest of the time, if they don't come to the door, I just pop it through their letterbox. I've delivered their post probably at least once a year over the years.

It's just occurred to me that in all that time, they've never reciprocated. And they wouldn't be able to just pop my post in my letterbox if I'm out, because I'm in a block of flats, but they've never rung my doorbell and given me my post. Also, it would be walking out of their way, because I live in the other direction from the shops. I'm guessing that if I've had quite a bit of their post over the years, they must've had some of mine, surely?

Right, the next time I receive any of their post, I'm just going to put it in the bin.

I get my neighbours' post but they never get any of mine (I'm certain they'd bring it round) so it's not necessarily reciprocal. Unless there's been some post you expected that never arrived.

 

[seeformiles]

We’re on an avenue but there’s a lane that runs parallel with the same first name. After a long time, we are used to bringing over their parcels and letters (and them to us) so all good.

 

[Tanya1982]

I had a hooker downstairs for a while, and I was forever having to redirect her customers from my buzzer. It annoyed me if I was asleep or in the middle of watching/doing something interesting.

 

[marty21]

It's just occurred to me that my opposite number has never reciprocated, never walked my mail round. I live at, shall we say, 123 This Street, and the parallel road has a house 123 That Street.

I've lived here nearly 20 years, on and off, and the post sometimes gets mixed up (probably when our regular postie is off, because he's really good), and I sometimes get the post for 123 That Street.

If that happens, I'll take their post round the next time I'm nipping to the shops on the main road or venturing out for whatever reason. I generally ring their doorbell and say Sorry your post is late, it came to my address by mistake. They've only come to their door maybe 2-3 times though, the rest of the time, if they don't come to the door, I just pop it through their letterbox. I've delivered their post probably at least once a year over the years.

It's just occurred to me that in all that time, they've never reciprocated. And they wouldn't be able to just pop my post in my letterbox if I'm out, because I'm in a block of flats, but they've never rung my doorbell and given me my post. Also, it would be walking out of their way, because I live in the other direction from the shops. I'm guessing that if I've had quite a bit of their post over the years, they must've had some of mine, surely?

Right, the next time I receive any of their post, I'm just going to put it in the bin.

yep, don't do it anymore - I can't say that haven't reciprocated as they could just post it through my letter box.

 

[Chz]

I don't get other people's post, but other people get mine.
We're xx Housing Association Court, Anywhere Road.
Half my stuff goes to xx Anywhere Road.
It doesn't help that some of the cheaper, off brand postcode directories insist this is correct. You can tell if they've shelled out for the proper RM database because they get it right.

 

[smmudge]

I'm about to move into a house which is numbered 6A because it was build on the back gardens of the road around the corner. Next door (no 6) has been converted to flats. When I looked up the EPC for 6A, it was for a flat. I actually emailed the surveyor who did it but he refused to accept that it was wrong. I pointed out that I was buying 6A and that his survey would shortly be overwritten as I would be reporting the lack of EPC to the estate agents.

I am going to have to make friends with Flat A at number 6, aren't I?

Yeah I had exactly this problem for a couple of years. I lived at no. 7 which had been converted to 3 flats (I lived in flat 2) and there was also a 7A and 7B next door. We'll I'm not sure what went on at 7B, but I had social services and police and all sorts knocking on my door at all hours asking for the occupants at 7B. And they were quite hard to convince that I lived at number 7 flat 2, not 7B. Would have been quite funny but I had quite a severe anxiety and depressive disorder at the time, and they didn't really believe me when I tried to explain that they were looking for the house next door.

 

[Ming]

Sigh…all the time. They keep delivering sex toys, ladies lingerie, pron and drugs to my address. I always tell the cops they're not mine but they don’t believe me. And this has been going on for years. You’d think the Canadian Mail would have been able to sort it out by now but there you go…

 

[dessiato]

We sometimes get other people's mail. There's two villages clise by with near identical addresses. Same house name, same street name.

 

[NoXion]

There's an address which has the same name and number, but is on a Road rather than a Place. Different postcode though, so I have no idea why I ever get their letters. There's also a new block of flats across the road from my place, and occasionally delivery drivers seem to get confused despite the fact that the flats opposite have "The [Placename]" as part of their address.

 

[Lancman]

When I worked in Bahrain money that I wanted to send from my bank there to my bank in Cyprus sometimes went to Cypress California, Cypress Florida or Cypress Texas, which was rather annoying because I had already turned it from Dinars into Euros.

 

[xenon]

You in the UK and was the medical stuff recent? Reason I ask is that it's been getting quite common and it seems like an issues NHS side

Yep in Bristol. Last time was about 5 months ago TBF. Hopefully he's had a dental appointment by now...

 

[existentialist]

Yes. Market Lane abuts onto Market Street. I fairly regularly get deliveries (but not post - Adrian the Post knows who we are) for the corresponding number on Market Street at my flat.

 

[editor]

I often receive letters address to [my flat number] on Coldharbour Lane. It's opposite my block so I just drop them off as I pass.

 

[kalidarkone]

I get my neighbours' post but they never get any of mine (I'm certain they'd bring it round) so it's not necessarily reciprocal. Unless there's been some post you expected that never arrived.

Same. Its cus my side of the road are 6 terraced houses numbered 1- 6. So post/parcel delivery assume my house is no 3.

 

[Numbers]

We regularly get post for a family who live on a road, we live on a street, with the same house number and the first part of our post code.

 

[Spandex]

I used to live on ______ Terrace, which ran off _______ Road, which led to ______ Street, which joined ______ Place and ______ Mews. We also shared a postcode with ------ Terrace. There was fucking chaos whenever the regular postie was off. Luckily people were good at redelivering all the misdelivered post.

 

[Elpenor]

I live on a road that is off a road has a very similar name, so apparently this is a problem. To add to that, my part of the road isn’t accessible by car and the house numbers are not laid out in a linear manner so people can rarely find the house anywhere. Also my external light doesn’t work in the winter as it’s solar powered and my front door with the house number is about 10m back from the footpath

Funnily enough I had this come through the door yesterday, it’s for the next road - having googled the interesting company name they’re apparently boxer shorts and sent appropriately enough from the Netherlands

 

[newme]

Yes I am 1 of 1 x Close, I get 1a of x close, 1b of x close (weirdly before me), 1 of x street and now 1 of x postcode but with the wrong close address. NHS stuff, Gov stuff, you name it, yet NHS and gov claim I received things that did not turn up with no postal receipt. Odd that, great now I have £500 in fines.