We moved here to a small hamlet (20 houses) 9 years ago. The previous owner moved a couple of miles away, but didn’t leave a forwarding address, and asked me to give any mail to a neighbour she was in contact with, I did for a year then binned it, including HMRC, letters addressed to her adult son.
Just before last Christmas a parcel was delivered here for her, I didn’t accept it and the courier took it back. 2 weeks later another neighbour came to ask me if I had the parcel, apparently previous owner had text this neighbour (who had had no contact with previous owner for over 8 years) asking her to check if I’d got it.
We also get regular phone calls asking for “Maureen” (not previous owner of house, but previous owner of phone number), including a call from the hospital to say her husband was ready for her to collect (!), several phone calls from her dentist, optician, solicitor and GP!
People are unbelievable!