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The DVLA keep mis-sending letters to my house?

A few months ago, I received a letter from the DVLA address to a Mr Daniel Fitch; no one of that name lives or has ever lived at my house. The letter had my address and town, but not my postcode. Then, they just wouldn't stop coming: there were weeks when I was getting three or four letters for Mr Daniel Fitch.

Numerous calls and letters to the DVLA later, I finally managed to persuade them that, no matter what their computer said, Mr Daniel Fitch doesn't not and has never lived at my address. They said they would change their database to reflect this while review the case. I had nothing to fear from this and, when a few months passed and I received nothing from the DVLA for Mr Daniel Fitch, I assumed they had also concluded he didn't live at my address.

Well, you know what they say about assuming... I received another letter today from the DVLA, for a Mr Daniel Fitch. I don't know what else to do now; I've spent hours on the phone telling them everything I can, then writing the same things. They've changed their database and presumably conducted their own investigation, and *still* the letters comes. In addition, I've gone up and down my road, asking for Daniel Fitch, and no one seems to have heard of him.

What else is there to be done?

Update:

Alf: sorry, didn't mention that I've done that as well. In fact, that was what I did the first three times, when it was a letter every couple of weeks.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Easy and simple, next time when you get a letter of this kind, put a big cross on the address and write "addressee does not live here - return it to sender" and drop it in a letter box. If you do not do, one day a policeman will be knocking your door, you never know what crime was committed by Daniel Fitch, speeding, burglary, stolen car and what not? In present time 99% crimes are committed with the help of cars.

  • Fred C
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Exactly as others have said, mark "not at this address" and just toss back in a post-box. Don't make a special trip, just drop them in when you are mailing something anyway, or drop in the box when you go shopping or elsewhere near a post-box.

    The letters have nothing to do with you, and do no harm to you, but you do have to pop them in occasionally for return.

  • photog
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Don't spend any time or money talking to the DVLA.

    Just put "not known at this address" in big letters across the next (and every other) letter that comes in addressed to him.

    Then stick it back in the nearest post box.

  • pmt853
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Still go with Alf - return to sender. Cheap and easy way to respond.

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  • 5 years ago

    The POSTMAN is stalking you? I shall give him a flogging! I'M the only one who can stalk you! I shall not share you with another stalker! *Gets out his flogging whip*

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