Reply #47: actually it is not as simple as you imagine

[pitohui]

i have sometimes got the same piece of mis-addressed mail delivered to me several times

writing "not at this address" is simply ignored, they keep returning it to this address

what (i hope) works is completely blacking out the wrong address which forces the postal service to return to sender, at least i hope they return to sender, i have no control over it, but at least they stop delivering it to ME

for all you really know your mail is at the dead letter office even as we speak

oh and if there is a UPC like code at the bottom of the letter, black that out too, or it will still keep being delivered back to you, they don't read "he's dead, jim" or "no such person" they just have a scanny thing that gets the (wrong) address out of that code apparently