Who knows, it’s just a theory about how this might have worked for me, because according to the rules, it really should not have worked in my situation. Someone at that local Post Office had a big pile of mail for her to deal with. One thought that crossed my mind was perhaps a Postal worker at that office, assumed there was an “imminent forwarding order” about to happen, had found her new address in their computers, and went ahead and returned my letter with the new address. Half the batch I marked “Please Forward,” and the other half I marked “Return to Sender, Address Unknown.” So, at the same time my RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED letter hit that local Post Office, so did all her accumulated mail that I redeposited in several street corner Post Office mail collection bins throughout the neighborhood. I don’t know if this has any bearing on my own personal experience, but what I had also done was, at the same time that I mailed my own test RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED envelope, I had divided up all her mail that had accumulated over the course of six weeks. She’s a few towns over now, so it is very interesting how the Post Office provided her new address to me without a forwarding order in place. I knew it was correct, because in the meantime, I had also found out her new address from a different source. BUT, and this is my point, when mail slowed down, and I had not gotten any for over a week (this was a few months ago), I tried the RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED method, and a couple weeks later, I received my piece of mail back with a pink sticker and her new address. Mail for other family members in her household also still arrives. So unless the Post Office let that fall through the cracks, it should have gone to her, if she had a forwarding order in place with them. One piece of mail most recently was from a bank that I know she had an account at, and the envelope had “ADDRESS SERVICE REQUESTED” on it. Now and again, a piece of mail still arrives at my rental property. She changed all the mail she gets (the things she knows about) over to her new address. I am still convinced my prior tenant never filled out a forwarding order. I just wanted to return to this blog, to again share my experience. Keep in mind that if you have issues or questions, it if often helpful to read the comments section of an article because you may find the answers there. Basically, look at the picture, then make yours look like that. As one commenter, Carolyn, has pointed out, you must type/print them out. UPDATE 09/10/13: It seems a few people have had problems with addressing their envelopes by hand. They guy has no idea I did this little bit of detective work and he will probably be shocked when he sees a letter from my attorney arrive in his mailbox. It didn’t even cost me anything. They have to have a forwarding address, or you will just get the letter back without any information. After two weeks, I got the original letter back with the person’s new address printed on a yellow label. I enclosed a short letter because I wasn’t sure if this would work, but it was not necessary. There are a number of options, but if you look at “Return Service Requested”, you will see that you can find out the new address without the addressee ever finding out.Īll you have to do is mail an envelope to the person’s old address with “Return Service Requested” printed 1/2 an inch above the delivery address. In Section 507, I found Exhibit 1.5.1 which is titled, “Treatment of Undeliverable First-Class Mail, First-Class Package Service and Priority Mail”. Thankfully, the post office isn’t that bright, because I just got it from them another way.Īfter digging through their website, I came across the Mailing Standards of the United States Postal Service Domestic Mail Manual. According to them, it was illegal for them to tell me the new address even though I said it was for a lawsuit. I knew he was having his mail forwarded, so I figured that I could just call the post office and they would tell me. I also did not want him to know that I was about to sue him. I did not want to ask directly because he may have given me a wrong address. There is going to be a lawsuit, but in order to send papers to the guy I needed to know where he moved. I’m here to tell you how to track someone down at a new address. He also refused to pay 3 months of past due rent. There is a lot more to the story, but that’s not what this post is about. Unfortunately when he did so, he left a lot of the remodeling unfinished and I have to pay to complete it or the house will be unlivable. He was planning on buying it from me, but we never came to terms and he vacated the property. I own a house that I was renting to a guy who decided to do some remodeling work without my permission or knowledge.
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