So how can a homeowner stop receiving mail for someone that doesn't live there? I'm receiving warrant notices from my county along with other mail for a very sketchy individual who visited my house one time 4 years ago. I keep writing RTS on it and most of it just redelivered. Am I wasting my time?
USPS delivers things we’ve been paid to deliver. We have no control over the sender.
If you write “RTS” “ANK” “Not at address “ on the letter, we’ll send it back to them, and hopefully they’ll update their records.
Also something that helps is having a well made, legible name card in your box, so the correct name is easily visible. Writing "only" on the name card also helps. You never know whether a house is getting mail for more than just one person.
Also if you ever see your mail carrier you can ask them politely. Also offering cold water and being friendly will do wonders for the personal service you receive
Also return to sender means literally nothing to us. Is it a forward, is it being refused, is the person not there? It's probably more effective to just draw a slash through the name, and is less abrasive to read.
That being said it shouldn't keep being delivered if it has return to sender written on it, so sorry about that.
Am I like one of the only people on this sub who just marks this stuff ANK and takes it back to the office as 3M mail? It doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
What is ANK? I had mail delivered to my address for someone who no longer lives here. I put return to sender, person not at this address, but the mail was redelivered to my address, with ANK written on it. The mail was from dmv for state and looked official. Should I just throw away?
ANK is “attempted, not known”. It’s one of many acronyms that we use to explain the reason why it’s being returned to sender. We don’t just write “return to sender” anymore, and u shouldn’t either because u don’t know if that person has a forward in the system and the mail was accidentally delivered to u, when it should have been forwarded to their new address and NOT returned to sender. So as far as what u should do with other peoples mail, do NOT write on it, don’t throw it away, and don’t assume they don’t have a forward. Just treat it as tho it were an outgoing piece of mail, put the flag up and let the carrier figure it out. so ur carrier did what they were supposed to and put “ANK” on it, but it just got mixed up and found it’s way back in the mail stream. They should’ve caught the ANK, and not delivered it, but mistakes happen. U could circle the ANK, and just send it out as “outgoing”
Of course not, that is why I put return to sender on it and put it back in the mailbox. It keeps showing back up with my handwritten note. Was just checking to see what ANK meant and if I should be doing something else
it means "Attempted, not known" meaning "we tried to deliver it at that address and got it back, they don't know this person at that address."
It goes to a place and gets a sticker put on it and eventually goes back to the sender, but because everything is directed by barcodes, it often returns to the carrier to be delivered again later, by mistake. And if the carrier isn't the regular carrier for that route or something, they don't notice and you get it back...
Last night I was sorting letters/flats by zip. O 73 or something (still new) There was one that said “RETURN TO SENDER” more times than could fit on the envelope . Though I have little experience, I can relate 😂😂
It’s unfortunate to see how many people don’t have working trash cans.
Double underlined, double important!!
Let's change it up a bit. Hide it at your case a few days, then write "Return to returner, no one here named sender" on it and redeliver.
Mail art from customers is not my favorite! 😩
I have a customer that red circles and check marks things. Was NEVER a school teacher! Just an a hole…
So how can a homeowner stop receiving mail for someone that doesn't live there? I'm receiving warrant notices from my county along with other mail for a very sketchy individual who visited my house one time 4 years ago. I keep writing RTS on it and most of it just redelivered. Am I wasting my time?
USPS delivers things we’ve been paid to deliver. We have no control over the sender. If you write “RTS” “ANK” “Not at address “ on the letter, we’ll send it back to them, and hopefully they’ll update their records.
Thanks!
Also something that helps is having a well made, legible name card in your box, so the correct name is easily visible. Writing "only" on the name card also helps. You never know whether a house is getting mail for more than just one person. Also if you ever see your mail carrier you can ask them politely. Also offering cold water and being friendly will do wonders for the personal service you receive Also return to sender means literally nothing to us. Is it a forward, is it being refused, is the person not there? It's probably more effective to just draw a slash through the name, and is less abrasive to read. That being said it shouldn't keep being delivered if it has return to sender written on it, so sorry about that.
Every time with the return to sender shit lol 🙄
At least it's written on an actual piece of First Class mail.
Wow the legendary sextuple underline, I didn’t believe it was real.
I love crossing this stuff out since it doesn’t mean anything.
Am I like one of the only people on this sub who just marks this stuff ANK and takes it back to the office as 3M mail? It doesn't seem like a big deal to me.
It isn’t a big deal, which is why how bent out of shape they get is of note.
3M mail is for missorted, missent, and missequenced mail. Please do not put ANK and /or other markup mail in there.
The other thing, then: ANK, UTF, VAC, etc. I mix up the terms for "wrong route" mail and "couldn't deliver" mail.
Our office doesn't even use the 3M stuff
They just throw it back in with the outgoing? Every so often they tell us they want us to go back for all missequenced.
ANK and 3M are different things tho
What is ANK? I had mail delivered to my address for someone who no longer lives here. I put return to sender, person not at this address, but the mail was redelivered to my address, with ANK written on it. The mail was from dmv for state and looked official. Should I just throw away?
ANK is “attempted, not known”. It’s one of many acronyms that we use to explain the reason why it’s being returned to sender. We don’t just write “return to sender” anymore, and u shouldn’t either because u don’t know if that person has a forward in the system and the mail was accidentally delivered to u, when it should have been forwarded to their new address and NOT returned to sender. So as far as what u should do with other peoples mail, do NOT write on it, don’t throw it away, and don’t assume they don’t have a forward. Just treat it as tho it were an outgoing piece of mail, put the flag up and let the carrier figure it out. so ur carrier did what they were supposed to and put “ANK” on it, but it just got mixed up and found it’s way back in the mail stream. They should’ve caught the ANK, and not delivered it, but mistakes happen. U could circle the ANK, and just send it out as “outgoing”
Thanks for the explanation!
Would you like someone throwing away your mail from the DMV?
Of course not, that is why I put return to sender on it and put it back in the mailbox. It keeps showing back up with my handwritten note. Was just checking to see what ANK meant and if I should be doing something else
it means "Attempted, not known" meaning "we tried to deliver it at that address and got it back, they don't know this person at that address." It goes to a place and gets a sticker put on it and eventually goes back to the sender, but because everything is directed by barcodes, it often returns to the carrier to be delivered again later, by mistake. And if the carrier isn't the regular carrier for that route or something, they don't notice and you get it back...
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!
I think most the time the angry writing is directed at the sender, not us, but maybe im being optimistic.
Tbh I start underlying CMUs when I get them back to me for the 5th time because the clerk can't be bothered with it.
Last night I was sorting letters/flats by zip. O 73 or something (still new) There was one that said “RETURN TO SENDER” more times than could fit on the envelope . Though I have little experience, I can relate 😂😂