What do I do about receiving another person's USPS mail?

Question

I have been receiving mail addressed to a different name. But the address is mine. It is all mostly baby-related. We have received issues of Parenting/Family magazines, a box of Similac, and different things about healthcare information. (I even received a hospital bill, but this time the name was different from the usual one). It is a foreign name so I don't know if it's someone trying to scam or steal my identity. What do I do with this mail? I don't want it somehow affecting me in any negative ways.

Answer 1

First, look to see if there is the wording "Or Current Resident" on the face of the mailpiece somewhere. If that is there, you get the mail and USPS will not return it to the sender as it has been properly delivered.

Second, any mail with the postage paid at the Presorted Standard Mail rate will not be returned without a service endorsement.

Any First Class Mail, such as the hospital bill should be endorsed by you in any manner to denote that that person does not live at the address and given back to the carrier, or dropped in any blue mailbox.

Answer 2

We get a lot of mail for the previous residents.  Just write on it 'No Such Person At This Address' or something similar, and put it back in the mailbox with the flag up.

Your address probably got on some kind of mailing list for new parents.  Maybe someone transposed two numbers or something.  Stuff like that happens.  Nobody is trying to steal your identity if the names on the mail are not yours.