I need advice from you lovely people as you're very good at making sense.
I have on a few occasions received recorded delivery letters to my home address for two people who I've never heard of. Each time I've refused to sign for them as I don't know this person. I've always been told this is the best policy as the onus would then be on me to prove that these people didn't live at this address if I did sign. Today the postman tried to get me to sign for another letter for them and again I refused. He then mentioned that it was from the Immigration and Asylum in Croydon and went on his merry way. I'm not sure if it's to do with them making a claim for asylum or benefits.
My dilemma is this, whilst I accept that it could be nothing more than a mistake with the number of my house or the road I live on, I can't help thinking that also someone could be using my address fraudulently especially as I live in Birmingham and have no connections whatsoever with Croydon. I haven't received any other letters for these people so it's not like they've attempted to get loans or credit cards but it's niggling me. I also would have thought that as I've refused to sign for these letters on a number of occasions, surely the office in Croydon should have guessed there was something wrong if their letters are being returned? Then I wonder if the post office are actually returning them!
As you've probably gathered I'm a worrier
should I contact Croydon and ask them if they've made a mistake? The problem with this is that I didn't get a full look at the names other than they were both foreign and both started with a Z (I know about as much use as a chocolate teapot 
). The alternative is to wait and see if they send another letter to me and act if and when that one arrives but as I said earlier it's niggling me and with identity theft and such like on the increase I'm concerned
What would some of you lovely people advise?
I have on a few occasions received recorded delivery letters to my home address for two people who I've never heard of. Each time I've refused to sign for them as I don't know this person. I've always been told this is the best policy as the onus would then be on me to prove that these people didn't live at this address if I did sign. Today the postman tried to get me to sign for another letter for them and again I refused. He then mentioned that it was from the Immigration and Asylum in Croydon and went on his merry way. I'm not sure if it's to do with them making a claim for asylum or benefits.
My dilemma is this, whilst I accept that it could be nothing more than a mistake with the number of my house or the road I live on, I can't help thinking that also someone could be using my address fraudulently especially as I live in Birmingham and have no connections whatsoever with Croydon. I haven't received any other letters for these people so it's not like they've attempted to get loans or credit cards but it's niggling me. I also would have thought that as I've refused to sign for these letters on a number of occasions, surely the office in Croydon should have guessed there was something wrong if their letters are being returned? Then I wonder if the post office are actually returning them!
As you've probably gathered I'm a worrier
should I contact Croydon and ask them if they've made a mistake? The problem with this is that I didn't get a full look at the names other than they were both foreign and both started with a Z (I know about as much use as a chocolate teapot ). The alternative is to wait and see if they send another letter to me and act if and when that one arrives but as I said earlier it's niggling me and with identity theft and such like on the increase I'm concerned What would some of you lovely people advise?
