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Comment on Discussion Thread 🪷 Sunday 11 May 2025

I had a mysterious hand delivered letter in my mailbox today, addressed to some people who are not me and marked “private and confidential”.

It can’t be too confidential because it was a card I was able to read through the envelope, which I presume would be meaningful to whoever it was addressed to but not to me. There is no address or anything so there is no way of passing it on to the right person. I’m thinking maybe just put it through the shredder?

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TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Mark the envelope RTS and drop it in a mailbox. Let the post office open it and determine the sender. The sender has to pay for the postage then. Which is an incentive to address items correctly. Does sound like it might be religious tracts or similar as per SituationCake below. Or you could open it “in error” and reseal it up again if it turns out to be genuine.

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- RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  It was hand delivered, not sent via post. There is no delivery address or return address.
  
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  - dumblederp@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    You can likely legally open it then as its not official mail.
    
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SituationCake@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Could it be junk mail? I’ve gotten envelopes addressed ‘to the household’ or looks like handwritten ‘sorry I missed you’, and they are always realestate advertising, some kind of tradie magnets or religious spruiking.

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- RustyRaven@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  No, it’s to specific named people. I can actually read the card inside through the envelope (I may have been nosy and held it up to the light 🤣) and it’s pretty much just a note that someone visited while they were out. Not the end of the world if they don’t get it, but I presume they would like to know.
  
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  - TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sounds like a real estate agent. I’ve had something similar - on opening it was an invitation to a scam ‘information night’ for investing in real estate. Basically a way of harvesting boomers’ information for further harassment by mail/text with ‘investment opportunities’. This is why I recommend doing a Return To Sender - then they have to pay for the privilege of contacting you and that gets you off their potential victim list very fast indeed.
    
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