A former Air BnB guest put a hold on my mail for everyone at my address and has been paying to hold the mail for 2 months! (Texas) : legaladvice

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Its kind of a genius revenge tactic, but the ones who suffered the most are my new renters. One guy has a thyroid problem and had to repurchase $500 in meds. A lot of people missed paychecks or credit cards. One lady missed the receipt of a Death Certificate. We thought someone was stealing the mail from the mailbox at first but then we started watching the mailman just skip over the house everyday and some "test" mail didn't move. So I tried calling the USPS and that got me nowhere. Going down in person was the only way to do this I guess. Turns out, some lady who we'd kicked out for being nasty, attracting bugs, and breaking furniture was mad or something or maybe using my address like a personal PO Box? Who knows. The post office was really nice about it though and gave me back all my mail. Still, how could this have happened? Surely this can't be legal. I got copies of her hold requests too as proof it was her. She hadn't lived there in 2 weeks when she put in the first one.

Edit: Well that was quick~! The Post Office called me directly before I could even report her and pro-actively already reported this lady to the postal inspector. They're very certain what she did is illegal. Thanks /u/BeamDriver for the advice! Important lesson here kids: Don't fuck with people's mail, because the USPS apparently is the most effective law enforcement agency there is.

Edit 2: OMG this made it to the front page? Not what I expected from a post that was solved on the first comment. Thanks for your updoots everyone!

flashman on October 25th, 2018 at 04:09 UTC »

Could mail law be /r/legaladvice's new tree law?

iranoutofspacehere on October 25th, 2018 at 03:47 UTC »

I’m just in shock that the post office called LAOP first. Apparently USPS takes its job way more seriously than I ever believed.

katzbird on October 25th, 2018 at 00:45 UTC »

The lady they kicked out probably thought she found a smart way to get back at LAOP that wouldn't backfire. But she won't know how badly she fucked up until the USPS special forces catch her and she is sentenced to death by a thousand paper cuts.

Also, what are the chances she's paying for the hold with her own money.